Obese baby girl’s weight leaves doctors baffled [Photos]

 

A morbidly obese baby has baffled doctors as she tips the scales at nearly THREE stone.

Chahat Kumar was born an average weight but started ballooning in size at the age of four months.

Now eight months old, the bouncing baby weighs in at 38lbs (2.7 stones) - the same as an average four-year-old.

Dad Suraj Kumar, 23, from from Punjab, India, said:

 “When Chahat was born, she was completely normal. Then, slowly we saw that her weight was shooting up.

“Her weight is increasing day by day.”“It’s not our fault. God gave this condition to her. It’s not in our hands. I feel bad when some people laugh at her for being fat.”

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 Chahat’s mother Reena, 21, explained:

“Before Chahat, we had a son who died, and then Chahat was born. I am concerned about her health.”She doesn’t eat like a normal kid. She keeps eating all the time. If we don’t give her anything to eat, she starts crying.

“She cries to go out but her weight is too much and we are not able to pick her up. So we only take her to nearby places.”

Due to the excessive weight the baby is now experiencing problems with both her breathing and sleeping. And her condition has even baffled the family’s local doctor in Punjab.Unfortunately Chahat also suffers from abnormally hard skin which has made taking blood samples to analyse her condition more difficult, and the family lack the funds needed to travel further afield for more advanced medical treatment.

Reena explained:

“We don’t have enough money for her treatment but we do our best to make sure she gets well. But the problem is with her skin. Her skin is so hard that doctors have failed to take a sample from her body.”

The Kumar’s doctor, Vasudev Sharma confirmed that the difficulty with taking blood samples has made a medical diagnosis very difficult.

 He said:

 “This is the first case I’ve seen in my life where a child’s Indiweight has been shooting up so much four to five months after birth.

“But the blood test couldn’t be carried out because the fat on the baby’s body was too much, and because of that, the blood test wasn’t done properly.

“We have tried it many times. Her skin is so hard that we can’t ever diagnose her condition.”

Dr Sharma has recommended that the family visit a Pediatric specialist at the Civil Hospital in Amritsar, but the family’s financial restraints has so far made this impossible.

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India’s Tourism minister advises female tourists: Don’t wear skirts or short dresses for your own safety

India’s Tourism minister Mahesh Sharma has spared controversy in the Asian country as he said foreign women travelling to India should not wear short dresses or skirts and should not walk alone at night “for their own safety”,

He also said women should take photographs of plate number of the cars they boarded while in India.

 

His provocative statements have come at a time when there's a lot of several high-profile gang rapes and attacks on women in the country.

 

Mahesh Sharma made the comments on Sunday while promoting a welcome kit that will be handed out to tourists when they arrive in India.

He said:

“In that kit they are given dos and don’ts. These are very small things like, they should not venture out alone at night in small places, or wear skirts, and they should click the photo of the vehicle number plate whenever they travel and send it to friends. For their own safety, women foreign tourists should not wear short dresses and skirts, . Indian culture is different from the western. he said”

After receiving a lot of backlash from women online, he denied his comments amounted to a dress code. He later added:

 “We have not given any specific instructions regarding what they should wear or not wear. We are asking them to take precaution while going out at night.I am a father of two daughters...I would never tell women what they should wear or not,” Mr Sharma said.

India has amended its laws to broaden the definition of rape to include any form of penetration; it lists out strict punishments not only for rape but also for s3xual assault, voyeurism and stalking.

This isn't the first time, however, that Sharma has stoked controversy with his comments on how to ensure the safety of women.

Last year he said Indian women shouldn't go out at night.

"Girls wanting a night out may be all right elsewhere but it is not part of Indian culture," 

 Source: CNN