A man suffered a very rare condition due to disturbances and hormonal glands. But the condition is actually making it a well-known for having feet the size of the largest in the world.
Although not the tallest person in the world, Brahim Takioullah crowned as sole owner of the world's largest by Guinness World Records. He broke the world record with the size of your left foot is 38.1 cm and 37.4 cm in the right leg.
Men from Morocco is growing rapidly and grew up in a small village. With big feet and striking his height reached 246 cm, he never moves without attracting the attention of many people.
"The doctors realized that the size of my school was great and asked me to do some blood tests. And I was diagnosed with a very rare condition called acromegaly," said Brahim Takioullah (29 years), as reported by news.com.au, Monday (10/10/2011).
Acromegaly is a disorder that causes the body's pituitary gland produces excess growth hormone. In addition to causing the body to grow with a large, people who suffer from this rare disorder is also threatened with a brain tumor. Takioullah therefore advisable to perform surgery.
But before surgery, he decided to finish her studies in college who majored in geography. When he began treatment, he grew up and approached the high man in the world's highest, Kosen Sultan of Turkey, with a height of 251 bodies.
Takioullah claimed to feel proud to have feet the largest in the world, although it does not mean he did not experience significant problems with the size of the abnormal foot.
Acromegaly is a disorder that causes the body's pituitary gland produces excess growth hormone. In addition to causing the body to grow with a large, people who suffer from this rare disorder is also threatened with a brain tumor. Takioullah therefore advisable to perform surgery.
But before surgery, he decided to finish her studies in college who majored in geography. When he began treatment, he grew up and approached the high man in the world's highest, Kosen Sultan of Turkey, with a height of 251 bodies.
Takioullah claimed to feel proud to have feet the largest in the world, although it does not mean he did not experience significant problems with the size of the abnormal foot.
Takioullah trouble finding shoes that fit the size of his feet, which is European size 58, size of shoe that never sold in stores.
"I always need shoes that are made with a specific size and price is very expensive. I once asked a shoemaker to make some shoes and he said it would cost 3500 euros (U.S. $ 4,851 or approximately USD 43 million)," complained Takioullah.
Now Takioullah recently met with an orthopedic podiatrist to make him a pair of shoes specifically designed to support a large weight.
"The problem is, when you have a very very big legs, making machine parts are not even big enough to make it. So we have to actually work right on the edge of the machine," explains Jerome Liegeon, orthopedic podiatrist.
Doctors are working to reduce brain tumor Takioullah fame can now look forward to helping find a doctor that he needed specialist treatment.
"His record will now be made known throughout the world and experts anywhere on the planet may be able to help," said Craig Glenday of Guinness World Record
Previously also appeared cases of children whose growth is very high at a young age like that of the President's daughter Malia Obama Barack Obama was 173 cm tall (5ft 9in) at the age of 12 years and a girl from Brazil named Elisany Silvia suffering gigantism.
