The boy has no skin

Brody Curtis gives a smile on his face. Only this part of my body is not covered in thick ice. This one-month-old boy was born with epidermolysis bullosa, causing him to lose skin on most of his body.

The baby's body is a very fragile and easily torn skin. " He was like a third-degree burn, " said his mother, Heather Curtis, 35, of Charlestown (USA). " Doctors can see all of its veins ."

One must cover most of the baby's body to avoid systemic infection, once a day it is necessary to change the bandage once and every time it takes hours to remove the bandage, apply ointment.

Epidermolysis bullosa is a type of genetic skin disorder characterized by strong reactions to small lesions, when hot or even rubs and scratches .

The boy was bandaged to avoid systemic infection. (Photo: ABC).

Brody suffers from this disease in dystrophy (her father and mother carry the disease gene, but does not show it out), plus blisters in the mouth and tongue. The disease occurs with the probability of one in a million children.

For the most severe cases, children can die after only a few days or a few weeks because the skin has no protective function. Or they have an infection, malnutrition. For milder cases, children tend to have more blisters and erosions on their hands, feet, and injuries.

After a month of birth, a lot of skin loss on Brody's baby body has yet to regrow.
(Photo: DailyMail)

ABC said that there is no effective treatment for this condition, other than bandaging to avoid wounds and infections. Parents are also recommended to have a prenatal check to avoid the risk of carrying the recessive gene to cause illness.

Doctors are not sure if Brody's skin will grow back completely, but they still hope that someday they can live normally. Her parents are very optimistic, because her baby's skin tends to grow back, crusting in wounds.