A Chinese newspaper revealed that a Chinese citizen named “Shu Wei” invented a medicine in difficult home conditions to save his sick son from certain death.
And the Chinese newspaper, “South China Morning Post”, reported that the citizen Xu Wei from Kunming in Yunnan Province, China, who is a shop owner and works online, faced a difficult tragedy when he was informed that his one-year-old son had Menkes disease, a rare genetic disease that causes Disruption of the copper transport process in the cells of the body.
The report, according to the Chinese newspaper
The man found that the experimental treatment methods in the hospital did not benefit his son at all, and the man decided to obtain the substance “copper histidine”, which is necessary to treat his son.
The conditions of the Corona virus prevented access to the material from outside China due to the precautionary restrictions imposed at the time.
At first, Shu Wei went to chemical companies to buy copper histidine from them, but its price was very high, in addition to the fact that the process of obtaining the approval of the official authorities to buy it would take years, and then the man who did not understand chemistry decided to study this science himself. In order to get the desired copper histidine at home, according to the Chinese “South China Morning Post” website.
The product of the material it is made of
She explained that “the father is now studying various scientific articles, using translation software, because he is not fluent in English, and he also joined pharmacy courses in a number of universities, which enabled him, after a certain period, to establish a small laboratory in his apartment that cost 3100 dollars, where he eventually succeeded in Copper Histidine Synthesis”.
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The article he created
The father tested the drug first on rabbits, and then on himself, to ensure its safety, then injected his son with it and took him to the hospital for analysis and to remove the risk of serious complications, and later Shu Wei was also able to manufacture the drug aliscomol, which can also be used in the treatment of Menkes disease, according to for some research.