a brain tumor discovered in a British baby who was constantly laughing

He sometimes laughed until 17 hours in a row. A two-year-old baby with seizures in the brain was operated on in 2016 in Bristol, UK, after doctors discovered that a tumor was causing repeated laughter. Cited by several British dailies, including The Daily Mirror, Tuesday, November 27, the mother of the child says she and her companion have first "thought he was just happy all the time".

"It was a little chuckle that did not stop, like a rotating disc in a loop", describes Gemma Young, 32 years old. His son laughed even in his sleep, without waking him up.

"For a long time, we did not understand where it came fromcontinues the mother, who finally consulted after a few weeks. Even a nurse at the hospital thought he was laughing; she was shocked when she realized that this 'laugh' was the reason for our coming. "

The benign tumor, about the size of a grape, was diagnosed after six months. "We were exhausted and so happy when, after two long years, the doctors were finally able to operate on Jack and end his seizures, " says Emma Young. The child, now 4 years old, has no more syptoma and now has a normal life.