Medical Mystery: 12-Year-Old Boy May Be First in History With This Illness That Has Left Doctors Baffled
Medical Mystery: 12-Year-Old Boy May Be First in History With This Illness That Has Left Doctors Baffled
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Medical mystery: Iowa boy, 12, has no urge to eat, drink
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — The soundtrack of daily life in the Jones household is apersistent mantra that Michael and Debbie intone for their 12-year-old son, Landon.
Take a bite.
Landon Jones, 12, is shown in a school photo from this year, at right — weighing 68.4 pounds — and last year, at left — at 104 pounds. Landon is losing weight due to an apparent hypothalamic dysfunction that started just over a year ago.(Photo: Photos special to the Register )
He began to shed 2 pounds per week last fall and has withered from his former weight of 104 pounds to a gaunt, tenuous 68.4 pounds.
Michael and Debbie, married 14 years, have battled every ounce of the way in a futile effort to pack pounds back on their oldest son.
He wants to feel normal
Landon arrived home from school last week with his playful brother Bryce, 9 — “kind of the Woody Allen of the school,” as Michael described him.
The parents pulled Landon’s lunchbox out of his backpack. One bite was missing from the corner of the ham and cheese sandwich they’d sent with him. The boy had munched perhaps half a dozen chips.
Bryce and the family’s Labrador-bloodhound mutt, Bailey, romped through the living room, a blur of happy energy swirling around the lethargic Landon. The weary, bespectacled boy tends to lie on the sofa after school.
He missed 65 days of school last year.
Landon, with zero appetite, struggles at the extreme opposite end of the spectrum as America battles rampant childhood obesity. It has more than doubled in children (to nearly 18% for ages 6-11) and quadrupled in adolescents (nearly 21% for ages 12-19) in the last 30 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
All he wants to do is feel like a normal kid.
Michael quit work to spend more time tending to Landon. His varied career has included time as a certified nursing assistant and his own pest control business in Cedar Falls. Debbie has been a medical assistant in the lab at Allen Hospital in Waterloo for 13 years.
Michael Jones implores Landon to eat some fast food after he barely nibbled at his lunch at school. Eventually, Landon retreated to another room to be force-fed away from the prying eyes of strangers.(Photo: Mary Willie/The Register )
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