28kg baby baffles doctors

MEXICAN doctors and two parents are grappling with the medical implications for an infant who has grown to weigh 28kg in just 10 months.

Making matters worse, baby Luis Manuel Gonzales might need medical treatment costing a fortune, but his father earns just $261 a month.

At birth he weighed 3.5kg — about the same as his brother Mario, who is almost three but who is now dwarfed by his baby brother.

At two months of age, Luis weighed 10kg.

Over the next eight months he gained a staggering 18kg.

“I thought it was because I had good breast milk,” his mother Isabel Pantoja said, speaking in family’s Tecoman home.

The parents got the shock of their life when a paediatrician told them the boy might need hormone injections that cost $725 each.

And despite lots of study and examination, no one really knows what is wrong with this baby boy.