06 Apr Toddler Covered In Scales Like A “Fish” Miraculously Cured With Cannabis Oil

Painful medical conditions are difficult to deal with at any stage of life, but they are particularly traumatizing for young children who do not understand what is happening to them. This was the case for two-year-old Carter Padelford, who was born with a rare genetic disorder that left him “looking like a fish”.

Born “as red as a tomato” back in November 2016, the toddler was diagnosed with lamellar ichthyosis when he was just three days old. It is an extremely rare condition which affects just one in 10,000 people in the US. As a result of the condition, he was unable to close his eyes or move his body properly.

Check out the video below to see what Carter looked like at the height of his condition: 

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Lamellar ichthyosis also causes the skin to crack, which is why Carter was described as looking like a fish because of the scales this caused. Unable to sweat either, his body temperature was completely unregulated.

Carter’s parents, Shai-Anne Sifford and Zach Padelford, both 21, initially treated his condition by rubbing large amounts of coconut oil and shea butter into his skin. They also gave him two oatmeal baths a day in an attempt to relieve him from the constant pain it caused, but it did little to improve the youngster’s quality of life. 

In addition to this, they had to exfoliate his skin in three separate ways – a painful process which they dreaded inflicting on their toddler.

However, everything changed for Carter when his desperate parents decided to change his extensive routine by mixing cannabis oil into the butter and oils they were using to treat his condition.

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