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04.09.2023 - 13:09 / dailyrecord.co.uk
The parents of a teenager who died of a rare illness after thinking she just had tonsillitis just months before her 18th birthday, were told not to google the disease before her death.
Leah Rogers fell ill shortly after returning to the UK from a holiday with friends in Spain with tonsillitis-like symptoms.
The 17-year-old, who planned to train as an intensive care nurse, regularly came down with the throat infection but she and her family had no idea that this time she only had days left to live. Her family were warned not to Google her condition after she was diagnosed.
She was taken to hospital twice in the following week as her symptoms got worse. Her mum Kath, 57, explained: "It got to the point where she took an accidental overdose of paracetamol because she took too many painkillers."
After not seeing any improvement over the next few days, she was prescribed different antibiotics and her mum realised she did not have enough tablets to last for 10 days as prescribed.
WalesOnline reports that her mum returned to the hospital to be told Leah had to be with her her in order to be given any more medication. And when they returned together a consultant said the teenager had to be admitted to hospital.
Kath said: "It's as if that was meant to happen. We thought we'd finally see an improvement so we felt a bit more at ease. But by the Tuesday she was getting pain in her abdomen.
"When the doctors came to see her straight away they said she had glandular fever." Kath said she knew this meant Leah could not receive treatment as glandular fever just had to run its course.
But she said Leah was not eating or drinking due to the pain in her throat. Doctors agreed that as soon as she could she could go home but due to the pain near
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The family of a teenager who died just weeks before her 18th birthday were told by a doctor "don't Google it" as the severity of her diagnosis began to become clear.