I thought my baby girl got her bushy eyebrows from her dad...
they turned out to be an early sign of a heartbreaking disease MORE: Parents of kids with dementia reveal cruel reality of life with rare disease By Alexa Lardieri U.S. Deputy Health Editor Dailymail.
Com Published: 20:00 BST, 14 June 2024 | Updated: 20:11 BST, 14 June 2024 e-mail 2 View comments A Louisiana woman credits her 'mom gut' for diagnosing her toddler with devastating 'childhood dementia.' When Morgan Rachal's second daughter Lydia was born in October 2022, she noticed the newborn had defined eyebrows that grew thicker over the next several months. As people said Lydia looked 'just like her daddy,' Mrs Rachal didn't give the unusual trait much thought.
That is until her mom sent her a TikTok of a little girl with the rare disease Sanfilippo syndrome who looked extremely similar to her daughter. Mrs Rachal said: 'I looked at it and I just saw Lydia's face in this child.' At 18 months old, Lydia was diagnosed with Sanfilippo syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that causes cognitive decline in children When Lydia was born in October 2022, her mom noticed the newborn had defined eyebrows that grew thicker over the next several months, which the registered nurse attributed to an inherited trait from her husband, Kirk Rachal Mrs Rachal said Lydia and her older sister Heidi are 'best friends' Acting on her instinct, the emergency room nurse pushed doctors to genetically test Lydia in March.
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