DHAKA, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Abul Bajandar, a 28-year-old Bangladeshi man, has been suffering a lot due to an extremely rare skin disorder disease which has left him with branch-like warts on both hands and feet.
"I cannot catch anything, can't eat food. I cannot take bath. And can't do my personal work without assistance from others," said Bajandar who was dubbed "tree man" because of the warts.
The disease has troubled him since his childhood. When he was about 15 years old, he noticed some lesions ranging from the size of a pinhead to that of a pea on his hands.
"I was taken to a village homeopath doctor, but his treatment did not yield (positive) results," Bajandar said, adding that the more he took medicine, the more the lesions grew.
Subsequently, he was taken to see many doctors. "Even I went to India for homeopath treatment there."
Married in 2011, Bajandar is blessed with a daughter who is five and a half years old. But his helpless condition has made his family life also miserable.
Bajandar had once been in Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) in Bangladeshi capital city of Dhaka for treatment of the disease called epidermodysplasia verruciformis, and which had then tree trunk-like warts almost weighing 4 kg on both his hands and feet.
He had stayed there for about two and a half years, and in May last year, he skipped out of further treatment from the hospital where he had got more than 20 warts removal surgeries.
Just before his 26th surgery, he left the hospital. But recently he was rushed again to the hospital as his health condition was getting worse day by day.
"It was a big mistake for me to leave the hospital at that time. It was better for me to stay at the hospital to complete my treatment," Bajandar said as he was now suffering from severe pain in his hands and legs.
"My unrest appeal to all across the world to help me," said Bajandar as his mother, Amena Bibi, was taking care of him.
The entire family, especially his wife, have also been suffering due to his illness, Bibi said. "I would urge all to support, please, my son for his full recovery from this rare disease."
His hands and feet have now again been growing to resemble gnarled tree branches.
Samanta Lal Sen, co-ordinator at the Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit of DMCH, said he came back to the hospital with lesions on his hands around one-inch long.
Sen said they are now working on the next course of actions to treat Bajandar who needs five to six more operations.
