(HNMO) – A baby in Hunan, China was born with 31 fingers and toes different from other children, now his parents are trying to find a way to operate on him.

Little Honghong has 15 fingers and 16 toes.

Honghong is now 3 months old, looks like many normal children, the only difference is that she has 15 fingers and 16 toes. On two feet, each table has 8 fingers, while one hand has 8 fingers and the other has 7 fingers.

Baby Honghong has 16 toes.

According to doctors, the case of Honghong baby has a deformity of extra fingers. Supernumerary deformity is the term used to describe an excess of a finger or foot. Usually this deformity occurs in excess of the index finger and the thumb is rarely seen in the middle finger. The incidence of this malformation in children is 1 in 1000.

Baby Honghong’s case is a birth defect. Honghong’s mother also has 12 fingers and 12 toes.

The baby’s mother also has 12 fingers and 12 toes.

In addition to genetic factors, there are also many cases of malformations of unknown cause. The extra fingers are usually small and less developed than the normal fingers.

Faced with the child’s condition, the parents are desperately seeking help – they have taken their child to many hospitals across southern China. A doctor at Hunan hospital also advised them to give the boy surgery between 6 months and before he turned 1 year old.

However, the cost of treatment is too high for them to pay (about 100,000 yuan, about 15,390 USD).

When their stories surfaced on Chinese social media, many people rallied to seek help and asked the government to support Honghong and his family.