Supersized man ailing, yet hospital can't help
By Wang Xiang |
May 29, 2010, Saturday
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CHINA'S fattest man, weighing 225 kilograms, was trolleyed into a hospital in Chongqing Municipality after shutting himself in at home for almost a year.
Liang Yong, 30, who stands 158cm tall, had lost the ability to walk and, in April, his face started to swell up. He was sent to Xinqiao Hospital and was found to have liver, kidney and heart problems.
Liang's doctor Wang Lei said he could die at any time from multiple organ failures, Chongqing Business Daily reported yesterday.
But Liang's corpulence has stood in the way of almost any treatment, unable to fit inside normal medical equipment. The doctors said neither CT nor MRI scanners could accommodate him. His blood vessels are hard to locate. Type-B ultrasonic equipment could not penetrate his fat.
Medicine use was also a problem. Liang only reacts to five times the normal dose of penicillin. But Wang said there's no way to know how much medicine could cure but not kill him.
Eight meals
Liang was normal size at birth, but his rapid growth rate stunned his parents. When he was 14, he weighed 180 kilograms. Because he could not stand being ridiculed by his schoolmates, he quit school after the junior high.
The report said he had eight meals every day before he was hospitalized, eating 500 grams of rice each meal, but still complained of hunger.
Liang successfully lost weight in 2000 because he found the girl he loved over an Internet chat room.
Two weight-loss camps helped him trim down to 105 kilograms. He married the girl and they had a child, now 5.
But the weight soon came back. Liang said he couldn't control his appetite.
The Shanghai-based record-keeping organization Great World DSJJNS named Liang "China's heaviest man" in March 2007. His name was in the Guinness World Records.
He even got an agent who paraded him around the country to make money from being watched like a rare animal.
After two years of touring, Liang broke up with his agent. He never again stepped out of his home, the report said.
The medical experts at the hospital said they had no idea how he got so large.
Liang said he only wanted to be a normal person to live happily with his family.
Liang Yong, 30, who stands 158cm tall, had lost the ability to walk and, in April, his face started to swell up. He was sent to Xinqiao Hospital and was found to have liver, kidney and heart problems.
Liang's doctor Wang Lei said he could die at any time from multiple organ failures, Chongqing Business Daily reported yesterday.
But Liang's corpulence has stood in the way of almost any treatment, unable to fit inside normal medical equipment. The doctors said neither CT nor MRI scanners could accommodate him. His blood vessels are hard to locate. Type-B ultrasonic equipment could not penetrate his fat.
Medicine use was also a problem. Liang only reacts to five times the normal dose of penicillin. But Wang said there's no way to know how much medicine could cure but not kill him.
Eight meals
Liang was normal size at birth, but his rapid growth rate stunned his parents. When he was 14, he weighed 180 kilograms. Because he could not stand being ridiculed by his schoolmates, he quit school after the junior high.
The report said he had eight meals every day before he was hospitalized, eating 500 grams of rice each meal, but still complained of hunger.
Liang successfully lost weight in 2000 because he found the girl he loved over an Internet chat room.
Two weight-loss camps helped him trim down to 105 kilograms. He married the girl and they had a child, now 5.
But the weight soon came back. Liang said he couldn't control his appetite.
The Shanghai-based record-keeping organization Great World DSJJNS named Liang "China's heaviest man" in March 2007. His name was in the Guinness World Records.
He even got an agent who paraded him around the country to make money from being watched like a rare animal.
After two years of touring, Liang broke up with his agent. He never again stepped out of his home, the report said.
The medical experts at the hospital said they had no idea how he got so large.
Liang said he only wanted to be a normal person to live happily with his family.
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