5-month-old baby girl in UK 'turning to stone' due to rare disease

 Afive-month-old child young lady from the United Kingdom is "going to a stone" because of a very uncommon hereditary condition that transforms muscles into bones. 

Lexi Robins was brought into the world on January 31 and seemed like some other ordinary child, aside from she didn't move her thumb and had greater toes. 

Her concerned guardians took her to the specialists. Be that as it may, it took some time before Lexi was determined to have a day to day existence restricting infection called Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP), which influences only one of every 2,000,000. 

Her X-beams, done in April, uncovered that she had bunions on her feet and twofold jointed thumbs. 

The FOP can prompt bone arrangement outside skeleton and limit development. It is accepted to supplant muscles and connective tissues, like ligaments and tendons, with bone. In this way, it is by and large apparent that the condition transforms a body into stone. 

Individuals with this illness, which has no demonstrated treatment, can be laid up by the age of 20 and their future is around 40 years. 

Because of the issue, Lexi's condition may deteriorate quickly in the event that she endures any minor injury, as straightforward as falling over. She can't get infusions, inoculations and dental consideration and can't conceive an offspring.