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.
Baseball makes me happy, he said. Josiah suffers from progeria, a genetic disease that causes accelerated aging in children. Incurable, progeria is among the rarest diseases on Earth and affects roughly one in 4 million. Dr. Colleen Walsh, who treats Josiah, said it was hard to tell how old his body is.