Topical application of a 10% tea tree oil cream works about as well as tolnaftate 1% cream (Genaspor, Tinactin, Ting, and others) for relieving symptoms of athlete's foot, including scaling, inflammation, itching, and burning. However, the 10% tea tree oil cream doesn't seem to cure the infection.
Only 80 children in the world currently have the condition, including 18 in the United States, according to the Progeria Research Foundation. Children are born seemingly healthy, but start aging dramatically by the age of 2. On average, they die at 13.
Rare genetic disease causes rapid aging in children â but new treatments offer hope. Hayley Okines, age 16, Harry Crowther, 15, and Ashanti Elliot-Smith, 10, all have the rare genetic disease progeria, which causes cells to age at an abnormally rapid pace. They were born with a rare genetic disease that causes premature aging, making children and teenagers look like little old men and women. It affects just one in 8 million worldwide.