FIVE STONE toddler who piles on 4lbs every month is on the verge of death unless his parents can fund £30,000-a-month tr
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Yagiz Bekte, from Samsun, Turkey, can barely fit into his buggy or wear nappies.
Treatment is only available privately and costs £3,196 ($4,138) for three days.
Yagiz has a hormone deficiency that affects his weight, and will only worsen.
The condition means he is unable to walk, run or play like other children his age.
His parents have even appealed to Turkey's president for support with payments.
The desperate parents of an 18-month-old toddler who tips the scales at an astonishing five stone and piles on 4lbs every month are begging for help to pay for his life-saving treatment.
Yagiz Bekte, from Samsun, Turkey, is so large he can barely fit into his buggy and even finding nappies that fit him is a struggle.
Treatment is only available privately and costs £3,196 ($4,138) for just a three-day supply. It will cost the family £30,000-a-month ($38,849).
Yagiz's father Sedat, 32, a car mechanic, said: 'If Yagiz doesn't use this medicine he will continue gaining weight, he will not be able to walk, run or even breathe.'
Yagiz was born with a leptin deficiency - the hormone that regulates weight and metabolism.
Sedat and Yagiz's mother Sevda, 26, took their son to the doctor when he kept uncontrollably gaining weight.
He now weighs in at 32kg (70.5lbs) and is getting heavier every day.
Local social services refuse to fund the treatment, forcing Yagiz's parents to appeal to Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for support.
Even if the family could afford the medication, payment would still need to be guaranteed by the government and administered by the health department.
Sevda said: 'I want Yagiz to be able to walk and run like all other children. He is in a very difficult condition. There is no doctor we haven't visited in the past year.
'Wherever we went we couldn't get results. Now I ask our president to help us. I appeal to him. There is no other medicine which can help Yagiz.
'He continually wants to eat. I try to stop him but he is already 32 kilos.
She said: 'He wants to go out to walk, to play.
'They told us to put him on a diet but his illness has nothing to do with his diet.
'Even when I was only breastfeeding him he was gaining sometimes two kilos per month. He is still gaining two or two and a half kilos every month.'
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4491498/Five-stone-toddler-needs-30-000-month-treatment.html
Yagiz Bekte, from Samsun, Turkey, can barely fit into his buggy or wear nappies.
Treatment is only available privately and costs £3,196 ($4,138) for three days.
Yagiz has a hormone deficiency that affects his weight, and will only worsen.
The condition means he is unable to walk, run or play like other children his age.
His parents have even appealed to Turkey's president for support with payments.
The desperate parents of an 18-month-old toddler who tips the scales at an astonishing five stone and piles on 4lbs every month are begging for help to pay for his life-saving treatment.
Yagiz Bekte, from Samsun, Turkey, is so large he can barely fit into his buggy and even finding nappies that fit him is a struggle.
Treatment is only available privately and costs £3,196 ($4,138) for just a three-day supply. It will cost the family £30,000-a-month ($38,849).
Yagiz's father Sedat, 32, a car mechanic, said: 'If Yagiz doesn't use this medicine he will continue gaining weight, he will not be able to walk, run or even breathe.'
Yagiz was born with a leptin deficiency - the hormone that regulates weight and metabolism.
Sedat and Yagiz's mother Sevda, 26, took their son to the doctor when he kept uncontrollably gaining weight.
He now weighs in at 32kg (70.5lbs) and is getting heavier every day.
Local social services refuse to fund the treatment, forcing Yagiz's parents to appeal to Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for support.
Even if the family could afford the medication, payment would still need to be guaranteed by the government and administered by the health department.
Sevda said: 'I want Yagiz to be able to walk and run like all other children. He is in a very difficult condition. There is no doctor we haven't visited in the past year.
'Wherever we went we couldn't get results. Now I ask our president to help us. I appeal to him. There is no other medicine which can help Yagiz.
'He continually wants to eat. I try to stop him but he is already 32 kilos.
She said: 'He wants to go out to walk, to play.
'They told us to put him on a diet but his illness has nothing to do with his diet.
'Even when I was only breastfeeding him he was gaining sometimes two kilos per month. He is still gaining two or two and a half kilos every month.'
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4491498/Five-stone-toddler-needs-30-000-month-treatment.html