A British girl whose hair looks like a mop has been diagnosed as one of only 100 people in the world to suffer from Flat Uncombable Hair Syndrome, also called UHS, according to Newsweek magazine. ” Newsweek American.
Lily Davis is 18 months old and her light blonde hair defies all attempts to brush straight. According to mother Charlotte Davis, 28, her daughter has been officially diagnosed with UHS Syndrome, a condition characterized by dry, frizzy hair that cannot be combed flat.
UHS syndrome develops in childhood, often between infancy and age 3, but it can appear as late as age 12, and usually improves in adolescence.
Children who get it tend to have lighter hair.
Charlotte says that her daughter, Laila, has been given nicknames, resembling her “Boris Johnson and Albert Einstein”, explaining that the condition began to appear as Laila approached the age of “one year and then the hair began to grow more and more”. [بهذا الشكل]”.
The mother stated that at first she was “in denial and continued to say that it would go away and get better.”
She was really proud of the doctors’ success in diagnosing it “because it’s so rare,” noting that part of the reason she was late getting her daughter tested was because there are only 100 people in the world with it,” so she had no preconceived notion that it might be her daughter. She has a syndrome.
“I don’t know if it was because other people ruffled and touched her hair but she started doing it herself.”
Mother Charlotte said she hoped her daughter would grow up realizing “how wonderful it is to look different from others”.
According to the US Center for Genetic and Rare Diseases Information (GARD), UHS is “a rare disorder of the hair shaft of the scalp, a condition” typically characterized by disorganized silver-blonde or straw-colored hair; protrudes from the scalp; It cannot be combed flat. “
The American Center also added that, “The syndrome appears to occur for recessive genetic causes, but there may also be cases that are inherited in a dominant genetic manner, in which there are other genes involved in the formation of hair. The condition often regresses spontaneously in the late [مرحلة] Childhood”.