The boy has 34 fingers and legs in India

A boy in India broke the world record after being born with a total of 34 fingers and toes. The previous record belongs to the Chinese baby with 15 fingers and 16 toes.

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Akshat boys have a total of 34 fingers and toes. Photo: Supplied

The Daily Mail reported that the boy Akshat Saxena had 7 fingers on each hand and 10 fingers on each foot. According to a spokeswoman for Guinness World Records, this is the person with the most total fingers and toes in the world today.

Baby Akshat, from Uttar Pradesh in northern India, has undergone a series of surgeries to remove excess fingers. However, this 1-year-old boy was born without thumbs, so the doctors were still trying to recreate this finger and the parts of the finger were removed for him.

Amrita Saxena, Akshat's mother, said: ' I am very happy to witness the moment our son was born. But then, I was shocked and surprised to see my son's finger . '

Doctors have diagnosed Akshat's baby with polydactyly , a genetic disorder that can be inherited, causing abnormal increases in fingers and toes. Most cases of this disease, excess finger usually appears on the pinky finger or the young toe.

Miss Saxena was informed by a family friend that her son could be listed in the Guinness Book of World Records, after this friend read the information on the Internet about a baby in China born with 31 fingers. hands and toes.

' He told us that my son Akshat could break the world record with 34 fingers and toes. At first, I did not believe this, but then he told my husband and sister to read information about the baby in China, 'said Akshat's mother.