King Charles' swollen "sausage fingers" have been explained by a medical professional after the monarch poked fun at his own condition in a new BBC documentary.
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A pair of two-year-old twins have been reduced to 'newborns' due to an extremely rare condition that has only had 13 diagnoses in the world. Lucas and Aiden Pickerill suffer with NRROS (Negative Regulator of Reactive Oxygen Species), which mainly affects the developmental skills of young children, starting from around 18-months-old.
The condition was only discovered in 2020 and there's been just 13 cases ever reported across the globe. It saw the brothers regress to the point that they are like newborn babies, their mum Nicola Minshall said.
Children with NRROS lose basic skills they have learnt - such as talking, walking, sitting up and eating for themselves - within just a few short months. Last year, the brothers began showing symptoms in December when they started suffering with seizures. And on October 27, they were diagnosed at Royal Stoke Hospital.
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Ms Minshall, 35, says her world has 'turned upside down' and she now provides constant care for her boys, reports BirminghamLive. Mum-of-three Nicola, of Madeley, Staffs, said: "They were only diagnosed about four weeks ago.
"They spotted cysts on the brain at 32 weeks but they informed me it could be nothing at all or learning difficulties. They were doing things like normal children do, they were walking and talking.
"They fed themselves, they laughed. They were feeding, talking, crawling. Sitting up. They very nearly started walking.
"At 18 months Lucas started having seizures daily. Then Aiden started having them three weeks behind. He is a bit more resilient.
"He did his last smile on Christmas day, then after that they
King Charles' swollen "sausage fingers" have been explained by a medical professional after the monarch poked fun at his own condition in a new BBC documentary.
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