Heartbroken parents of little girl who pulls out her hair and eats it make brave decision to chop off her locks

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A Scots toddler is suffering from a rare genetic condition that causes her to pull out her own hair and eat it. Sydney Miller, 2, is believed to be the only person in Scotland to suffer from Primose Syndrome - a progressive genetic disorder that varies in symptoms.

The condition has seen the tot from Dunbar hospitalised multiple times in her short life.Her heartbroken parents, Stuart, 47, and Stacie, 36, have bravely opened up on their daughter's traumatic behavioural changes that have led to her tearing out clumps of her hair before swallowing it.Doctors believe the habit may have started due to sensory issues, as Sydney previously bit through a new dummy every day.Speaking to the Record, mum Stacie said: "It's been heartbreaking to watch her tear out her beautiful hair.

She has such lovely long hair before this."Sydney has been in and out of hospital having treatment for two years now, but the hair pulling is a new behaviour."We are not exactly sure why she has started."She has a lot of sensory issues and doctors and therapists have suggested to us it might be because we had to remove her dummy from her a few months back."She was going through a dummy a day, just biting the teet off so we had to remove that, and since then it just started."At first it was just a couple of strands, then it was handfuls and it ended up with her whole pony tail."Now, she is eating it and that is causing big health concerns but she doesn't cry.

It just doesn't seem to bother her and is always just a happy wee girl."She just seems to have no pain barrier but it is obviously really concerning health wise."Now the couple have decided to cut their daughter's hair off, to give her some relief from the pulling and helmet, but also to raise some