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20 comments to "Teenager with Four Kidneys"
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CheeseDuck
February 18th, 2008 at
1:18 pm
That’s great!
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schnitzelboi
February 18th, 2008 at
1:44 pm
There should definitely be some kind of social-networking site for people with multiple organs… I (or actually, all the males in my family) have three kidneys myself, and would like to meet people like this.
Hooray!
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Cindy
February 18th, 2008 at
2:00 pm
That’s pretty awesome - not often in life that someone can do something and know they have REALLY made a difference in someone else’s life.
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Orjans Morjan
February 18th, 2008 at
2:09 pm
What a waste, she should sell them!
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Jennifer
February 18th, 2008 at
2:18 pm
But, an excess of organs - while cool because they are important organs - is a genetic defect right? So if she donates those kidneys then wouldn’t the genetic defect be passed over?
@ schnitzelboi - well, you could make the website yourself, be it’s founder!
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just a guy
February 18th, 2008 at
2:52 pm
@Jennifer
inhereting an organ doesn’t change your DNA, so it woudln’t be passed on. Unless the kidney somehow had an *additional* mutation that caused it to alter the DNA in a person’s reproductive cells (sperm/eggs). but that would be very odd. (a donated ovary, on the other hand, would be much more probable)
Evolution is nothing but mutation, passed on into prevalence. Perhaps humans are starting to grow extra kidneys for a reason? To combat the chemicals/etc in our modern processed food? Something like that?
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L
February 18th, 2008 at
2:57 pm
If that’s the case, just a guy, wouldn’t it be wise to hang on to them?
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AbbyJoy
February 18th, 2008 at
4:53 pm
No, because 2 is more than enough for a healthy person. I see no reason to Bogart extra kidneys when there are so many in need. Kudos to this young lady. I’d like to think we’d all do the same thing if we could.
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Steve
February 18th, 2008 at
5:42 pm
Dang, i’d hit her !
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alison
February 18th, 2008 at
6:12 pm
Well that’s pretty much the definition of selfless, good on her.
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Jennifer
February 18th, 2008 at
6:50 pm
@ just a guy
So, we couldn’t just farm additional kidneys by promoting this defect through transplanting the organs from people who have developed additional organs?
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Brian
February 18th, 2008 at
7:54 pm
My daugter has 3 kidneys. Thogh, the deal with her though is that the two on the same side are attached and about half the size of a regular one, so she should probably just hang on to hers.
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just a guy
February 18th, 2008 at
9:41 pm
@ Jennifer
No, putting a kidney (or any organ) in someone else would not make their offspring more likely to have extra kidneys (or organs). with perhaps the possible exception of reproductive organs. If you wanted to promote extra kidneys, for example, you could take this girls ova and give them to many people who needed them to have kids (assuming she was for that, of course). Since her eggs would have her DNA, her kids might have extra kidneys (whether or not they grew in her uterus or someone else, they are still genetically her offspring).@ L
It *might* be wise to hang onto them… she’d have a much better survival rate VS kidney failure, for sure. But AbbyJoy said, she probably will be fine with just 2, like everyone else. I think donating them is a lovely act. (also, donating or not, her kids could have them too, if it’s a genetic mutation and not a just a birth ‘defect’).
Still… how nice would it be to have 2 hearts if you happen to suffer a heart attack in one of them…? -
oldblackhen
February 18th, 2008 at
10:22 pm
a friend of mine was born with 4 kidneys. doctors thought she had tumors or something for the first 2 years of her life. eventually they figured it out and realized she had 4 kidneys and that she was fine.
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Ali S.
February 18th, 2008 at
11:32 pm
Well, at least it something happens to a family member or friend who requires a kidney transplant she’ll be (hopefully) the first one to step up.
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anonymous
February 19th, 2008 at
1:41 am
mucho respect yo.
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schnitzelboi
February 19th, 2008 at
3:50 am
Now that she knows she has four kidneys, the question is whether or not all of them are functional. In a lot of cases, extra kidneys are dysfunctional or inactive. All three of mine happen to be up and running, but what about all of hers? I’d be glad to hear if all of hers were fine, too, which would mean that she really could donate those kidneys after all.
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Rohin
February 19th, 2008 at
5:35 am
That’s nothing. I had a patient with one and a half livers, three spleens, a heart on her right hand side and three kidneys. She was essentially fine.
I wish I had a few more eyes. Or a million fingers.
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Holly
February 19th, 2008 at
10:04 am
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Eve
February 21st, 2008 at
2:17 pm
My daughter has 2 on her left side and none on her right. Found out when one ruptured. I find it strangely comforting that so many people share similar oddities.
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