Guwahati: A teenage boy in Madhya Pradesh suffers from the unusual illness known as Werewolf syndrome. He develops thick fur all over his body as a result.
17-year-old Lalit Patidar, a resident of Nandleta village suffers from hypertrichosis. Healthline describes it as a condition marked by excessive hair growth on any part of the body.
He was born with the illness, and it has affected him ever since. It wasn’t until he was a teenager that he began to notice anything strange.
“When I was young, I had people throw stones at me. Kids were worried I would come back to bite them like an animal,” Patidar said.
“My parents say the doctor shaved me at birth, but I didn’t notice anything was different about me until I was around 6 or 7 years old. That’s when I first took notice that the hair was growing all over my body like no one else I knew,” Patidar concluded.