A four-year-old boy gets his grin back thanks to milk after being unable to smile due to a rare disorder.
Sonny Little has a chromosome deletion syndrome known as 2Q24.3, the Daily Mail reported. He is one of just 25 children worldwide to have the condition. Little was just three months old when he began to suffer from fits which grew more frequent and started having them 30 times a day.
His condition got even more serious when he began to turn blue, stop breathing and violently shake from between two and 20 minutes. In 2014, the tot had a 14-minute seizure that left him unable to crawl, eat, laugh and he even forgot how to smile.
Dr Peta Sharples, consultant paediatric neurologist at Bristol Children’s Hospital told SWNS.com Sonny was unable to smile because the seizures were interrupting signalling pathways within the brain that would able him to do so.
A nutritionist in 2016 started him on a special diet of just milk, which is high in fat and a low carb. He started drinking two pints of milk day. The diet led to a remarkable change.
Sonny has almost stopped having seizures and is showing signs of progress in development again and has relearned how to smile. It is not yet known why the diet is curbs seizures in children.
