Tens of millions of people use social network Facebook. In certain cases the help of friends with network can be very useful. The recent case when one of users helped to make to the sick child the exact diagnosis became an example of that.
At four-year-old Evan Owens frequent attacks were observed, physicians could not diagnose a disease. In separate days the boy had about 17 attacks – he told that he during an attack at it darkens in eyes, in ears the rumble is distributed. In despair mom of the boy wrote the next attack of the son on video and laid out a video in Facebook with a request to help to diagnose a disease of the son.
Fortunately mom and the boy, one of net surfers could make the correct diagnosis, having assumed that the child suffers from a reflex oxygen-free attack. Pain or a fright become its reason, as a rule, and darkening in eyes and noise in ears are a consequence of insufficient supply of a brain with oxygen on attack time.
Having received the estimated diagnosis, parents brought Owen to University hospital of Wells where doctors confirmed the made diagnosis. This disease is very rare therefore physicians and had problems with its diagnostics. Doctors calmed the boy's parents – according to them, attacks can end by itself when Owen a little matures.
It should be noted that it is already not the first case when users of Facebook help to make the correct diagnosis. Thanks to extensive audience among which there are many physicians with a long standing of work there is an opportunity to correctly diagnose a disease even in very difficult cases. Not so long ago, for example, one of visitors of network helped parents of the child whose photo she accidentally saw on one of Facebook pages. In a characteristic shape of the head of the kid the woman assumed that at that a rare disease – a trigonotsefaliya.
The boy's parents did not even assume that he is sick, but after all contacted physicians, those confirmed the made diagnosis. Timely detection of a disease significantly increases chances of recovery therefore the help was extremely useful. Interesting what before the boy was seen by many doctors, but any of them did not notice signs of the desease.