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A baby girl who faced a slow, painful death as her brain MELTED, is on the road to recovery after an astonishing world-first experiment.
'Baby Z's' brain had begun to dissolve shortly after she was born 18 months ago because she had too much toxic sulphite in her system - an extremely rare condition for which there was no known cure.
Her prospects of survival were hopeless, but her parents and doctors in Melbourne refused to stand by helplessly and watch her fade away as the poison in her body ate her brain away.
Doctors and the little girl's parents - who cannot be named for privacy reasons - began searching the world for any kind of drug or treatment that might give the baby even the slightest chance of survival.
They learned of a drug that had successfully reduced the levels of sulphite in mice in tests by biologist Guenter Schwarz in Germany.
The drug had never been tried on humans but Dr Schwarz agreed to courier his entire stock of the compound from Cologne to Melbourne in the hope it could save Baby Z.
A bio-ethics board and the Family Court in Melbourne cleared the experimental procedure as it provided her only hope of survival.
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