Prithviraj Patil, A Hairy Boy in Sangalwadi

The boy above is named Pruthviraj Patil and was born in India with a disease called "hypertrichosis", or called warewolf syndrome. Its extremely rare disease that only about 50 people in the world even have. The people of the village that Patil was born in, thought he was some sort of God or some strange creature that came to earth.

A 11-year-old boy has hair growing all over his face and body. And doctors say that laser treatment or plastic surgery is the only way out.



Prithviraj Patil, son of a well-to-do farmer in Sangalwadi near Sangli, suffers from a rare medical anomaly though he is otherwise like any normal child.

The boy has no problem with his hair that is up to three-inches long except that it looks awful - there is no itch or rash on the skin or any bad odour accompanying the dermatological problem.


Prithviraj became an object of curiosity at a health detection camp here Sunday as he waited his turn in a long queue of people for a medical check up.

The visit to the health camp was just another effort on the part of Dilip Patil, Prithviraj's father, in his quest to diagnose and possibly find a cure for his Class 5 son.

Skin specialist Dayanand Naik, who found that hormonal and pathological tests conducted on Prithviraj were normal, said that laser treatment or plastic surgery could be attempted after a few years.


Despite his unusual problem, Prithviraj has been doing consistently well in his studies.