Condition making body to swell double its size causes girl to get both kidneys removed

While having one kidney removed can be life altering for a human being, living without both seems unimaginable. But in rare cases people have to undergo such procedures in order to survive disorders.

A nine-yea-old girl from UK faces an operation to remove both her kidneys because of a disease which makes her swell double her size. The disorder called nephrotic syndrome makes kidneys leak protein that leads to swelling of the body.

Although children can be treated with steroids and Lila’s condition was in control for past five years; the steroids aren’t effective anymore. The child is battling the disease in hospital for eight months with daily infusions of protein as she is fed milk by a tube.

She has also been put on a dialysis on which she may remain all her life unless a transplant match is found for her. The swelling up also affects her breathing and sometimes she swells so much that her eyes look closed.