Serhat Saltık, a 23-year-old university student living in Pamukkale, Denizli, lost his sense of hunger while everything was going well in his life. Saltik, who applied to many doctors in Turkey in line with his own means to find a solution to his illness, was stunned by the answers he received. Doctors told Saltık that they had never encountered such a disease before, and that the situation was not even written in medical books.
CANNOT BE DIAGNOSED
After a while, Saltık started to lose weight, and after explaining his loss of appetite to another doctor, he tried to hold on to life with food in the form of food. Surgical operation was performed and a tissue sample was taken from Saltık, who had an undiagnosed disease, and biopsy was performed on his body. The young man, who continues to apply to doctors, wants to regain his health as soon as possible and to continue his education, which he left unfinished.
“PLEASE KEEP ME BY MY HANDS”
Serhat Saltık, who studied mathematics in Istanbul and went to many doctors in Turkey to find a cure for his undiagnosed disease, announced that he had left his education halfway. Returning to his family and wanting to get rid of the foods he compulsorily consume at home, Saltık said, “It started with suddenly getting hungry and losing my appetite. Naturally, I started not to experience the hunger function that every person experiences every day. This process gradually increased, at first it went and came back for a certain period of time. Then it would go longer and come back. As I progressed in this way, I was no longer completely hungry. It takes approximately one year.
There are nutritious foods that doctors have given, I try to feed them. I also forcefully consume bread and water to survive. The answers the doctors gave me were as follows, ‘We have not read anything like this in medical books until now, nor have we come across a case like this throughout our life as a doctor. They said, ‘We are very surprised indeed. When my illness progressed so much, I had to go to the doctors all the time, so I started to visit doctors from city to city, hospital to hospital. For this reason, I could not continue my education and froze my school and interrupted my education. I’m calling out to the doctors from here, if they believe that they can save me from this situation, if they believe that they can save me from this situation, please hold my hand and show me a way out. I would be very happy if a helping hand was extended to me,” he said.