A pair of two-year-old twins have been reduced to 'newborns' due to an extremely rare condition that has only had 13 diagnoses in the world.
Lucas and Aiden Pickerill suffer with NRROS (Negative Regulator of Reactive Oxygen Species), which mainly affects the developmental skills of young children, starting from around 18-months-old.
The condition was only discovered in 2020 and there's been just 13 cases ever reported across the globe. It saw the brothers regress to the point that they are like newborn babies, their mum Nicola Minshall said.
Children with NRROS lose basic skills they have learnt - such as talking, walking, sitting up and eating for themselves - within just a few short months.
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