New Delhi: Robert Smith, a 24-year-old man suffers from proteus syndrome, which causes his bones and skin to grow in an abnormal way. He is 7 feet tall and still growing.
This medical condition has made him prisoner in his own home.
Proteus syndrome results in bone overgrowth. This overgrowth is usually asymmetrical, so corresponding body parts are not affected in the same way. As per records It thought to affect 120 people worldwide
Robert was born a month prematurely at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, Norfolk, and it was immediately clear he was unwell.
