September 29, 2008

Woman who is blind for three days

A mystery illness has struck an Australian woman, for three days of a week her eyes are completely fixed shut and then for no apparent reason are open again for another three days; this condition has got medical staff baffled.

However, this is not something that has recently occurred, Natalie Adler aged 21 has had to put up with this for over four years now. She is believed to be the only person in the world to suffer from this problem, which is caused by random muscle spasms.

Doctors have tried Botox, which worked for a while, but the condition keeps returning the stage in the treatment will be a course of electrical stimulation. Bring the first and only of the condition, the medical staff are breaking new ground every time that they try something.

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