According to his parents, the baby reportedly suffered from acrania, which is a rare facial deformity that develops inside the fetus and occurs in every 20,000 human babies.
The baby’s cranial region of the face is made of flat bones and a chunk of his skull is missing. The couple believe over-the-counter capsules containing phenylephrine HCI, chlorphenamine maleate and paracetamol that his mother took for a week during the first month of her pregnancy when she was suffering from fever might have caused her baby’s rare facial condition
The baby, Matthew, who was born without a face in Philippines has managed to defy all odds and survive a year. Two months before the baby was born via cesarean section in a hospital in northern Philippines, the doctors examined his mother’s, Isabela, first ultrasound and informed the couple that chances of Matthew surviving beyond a couple of weeks after birth were extremely low. Read the full story here ▶
