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04.09.2023 - 09:27 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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.
Leah Rogers, 17, had been in Majorca with a group of friends, but upon her return to the UK, she fell ill. The aspiring nurse was prescribed antibiotics after her parents rang the out-of-hours surgery.
But Leah was taken to hospital twice in the following week as her symptoms were getting worse, reports the Liverpool ECHO. Her mum, Kath Rogers, 57, said: "It got to the point where she took an accidental overdose of paracetamol because she took too many painkillers."
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Despite the medication, Leah's condition failed to improve and she was prescribed with a different course of antibiotics. But when Kath realised the hospital had not given her enough tablets to last for 10 days as prescribed she returned to the hospital alone only to be told Leah had to accompany her to be given any more medication, reports WalesOnline.
Kath said: "It's as if that was meant to happen". When Leah and her mum returned to the hospital a consultant met with Leah and decided she needed to be admitted to hospital.
Kath said: "We thought we'd finally see an improvement so we felt a bit more at ease. But by Tuesday she was getting pain in her abdomen. When the doctors came to see her straightaway they said she had glandular fever."
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Kath said she knew this meant Leah could not receive treatment as glandular fever just had to run its course but Leah was not eating or drinking due to the pain in her throat.
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