ahmedabad food is fundamental to survival mothers lovingly feed their children all kinds of food in the hope of making them and chubby and healthy kreena italia however is an aberration she is slowly dying from the food she eats kreena is born with a rare genetic disorder hurlers syndrome where her body is missing one of the 40 enzymes needed to metabolize food the absence of the enzyme iduronidase means that complex lipids and sugars dont get digested inside her cells this results in a build up of their debris which causes the cells to swell the first sign of trouble is the skeletal frame depositions of lipid and sugar remains cause the spine to curve later the forehead starts bulging followed by the eyes kreena has all the signs says noted geneticist dr jayesh sheth around six years into life the collection of debris starts happening in brain cells which causes neuroregression kreenas mother vibha says for the last two months kreena has started losing her mental acuity she starts banging her head for no reason and suddenly starts acting like a baby earlier she was very lucid and would even preempt my actions says the housewife from bhavnagar kreenas father jagdish owns a small diamond polishing business the couples predicament is that they have little choice but to watch their girl slowly succumb to the metabolic disorder there are only two treatment options available one a monthly enzyme therapy which costs rs 10 lakh the treatment is prohibitively expensive the other therapy is stem cell transplantation which is also expensive if the government can support a certain part of the cost we can at least make our girl live says vibha