http://en.afri-pulse.net// <br /> <br />Yagiz Bekte, from Samsun, Turkey, can barely fit into his buggy or wear nappies. <br /> <br />Treatment is only available privately and costs £3,196 ($4,138) for three days. <br /> <br />Yagiz has a hormone deficiency that affects his weight, and will only worsen. <br /> <br />The condition means he is unable to walk, run or play like other children his age. <br /> <br />His parents have even appealed to Turkey's president for support with payments. <br /> <br />The desperate parents of an 18-month-old toddler who tips the scales at an astonishing five stone and piles on 4lbs every month are begging for help to pay for his life-saving treatment. <br /> <br />Yagiz Bekte, from Samsun, Turkey, is so large he can barely fit into his buggy and even finding nappies that fit him is a struggle. <br /> <br />Treatment is only available privately and costs £3,196 ($4,138) for just a three-day supply. It will cost the family £30,000-a-month ($38,849). <br /> <br />Yagiz's father Sedat, 32, a car mechanic, said: 'If Yagiz doesn't use this medicine he will continue gaining weight, he will not be able to walk, run or even breathe.' <br /> <br />Yagiz was born with a leptin deficiency - the hormone that regulates weight and metabolism. <br /> <br />Sedat and Yagiz's mother Sevda, 26, took their son to the doctor when he kept uncontrollably gaining weight. <br /> <br />He now weighs in at 32kg (70.5lbs) and is getting heavier every day. <br /> <br />Local social services refuse to fund the treatment, forcing Yagiz's parents to appeal to Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for support. <br /> <br />Even if the family could afford the medication, payment would still need to be guaranteed by the government and administered by the health department. <br /> <br />Sevda said: 'I want Yagiz to be able to walk and run like all other children. He is in a very difficult condition. There is no doctor we haven't visited in the past year. <br /> <br />'Wherever we went we couldn't get results. Now I ask our president to help us. I appeal to him. There is no other medicine which can help Yagiz. <br /> <br />'He continually wants to eat. I try to stop him but he is already 32 kilos. <br /> <br />She said: 'He wants to go out to walk, to play. <br /> <br />'They told us to put him on a diet but his illness has nothing to do with his diet. <br /> <br />'Even when I was only breastfeeding him he was gaining sometimes two kilos per month. He is still gaining two or two and a half kilos every month.' <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4491498/Five-stone-toddler-needs-30-000-month-treatment.html
