Medical Operational Status to Save the Fattest Kid in the World
Cairo: HelloEgy.
A charity institution in Colombia has saved an eight-month baby who was classified as the fattest kid in the world after his mother admitted her role of his extra over weight. She said that she used to feed him every time he cries.
Volunteers from Medellin-based Chubby Hearts foundation stepped in to transport the baby Santiago Mendoza , already tips the scales at 3.1-stone, from his home in the northeastern city of Valledupar to the capital Bogota, after his mother Eunice Fandiño wrote in asking for help.
She confessed that her own ‘ignorance’ had led to her son's unhealthy weight gain and that, every time he cried, she gave him food or milk to calm down.
‘He was born with an anxiety, so if he cried I just fed him,’ she added.
Caracol Radio reports that Santiago has suffered medical complications due to his weight since he was born, and has already been hospitalised on several occasions.
Chubby Hearts director Salvador Palacio González said the child would be evaluated by specialist doctors at the Colina Clinic.
Medics will then try to bring his weight down to a manageable level before submitting him to a series of operations, he added.
‘Likely, what he will need is a long-term treatment, education, healthy food, and when he is older physical activity,’ surgeon Cesar Ernesto Guevar stated. ‘Otherwise, in the future, he could suffer from diabetes, high blood pressure and severe problems with his joints,’ he added.
His mother was practically confined to her home as the baby was ‘too heavy’ to take out and about.
But she added that she was ‘optimistic’ about the help she was receiving and has promised to follow the instructions she's given by doctors.
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