Erin Kavanagh- CIPA

This video is about a four year old boy named Roberto who has a very rare disease known as Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anihidrosis or CIPA. The disease makes it so that Roberto physically cannot feel the pain that normal people experience from a fall from a bike or a cut on the arm. While this may sound like a good thing to people who do not have the disease, it is so dangerous that most people that have CIPA do not live into adulthood. Since children can usually tell their parents or an adult what is hurting them when they are sick and injured, their parents can seek appropriate help. However, children with CIPA could have any number of internal or external problems that are hidden from their parents that for a normal child would be easily treatable, but for a CIPA child could be life threatening. I thought that this video was really interesting and gave me a whole new perspective on the sensation of touch and pain.