Leah Rogers, 17, was eventually diagnosed with a deadly immune condition but doctors were unable to save her
A 17-year-old girl returned from a holiday in Majorca with what she thought was tonsilitis - and tragically died within weeks. Leah Rogers was a high flyer who got As and Bs in her 12 GCSEs and dreamed of being an intensive care nurse.
However her symptoms kept getting worse and she went to the hospital twice - and finally was admitted. Mum Kath told WalesOnline: “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 straightaway they said she had glandular fever.”
The next day doctors told Leah’s parents that the blood tests had shown she had liver failure. “Kath explained: “From there then it escalated. They said she needed to go to a specialist centre in Birmingham. They told us she would possibly need a liver transplant and they were trying to get a bed for her in Birmingham.”
Doctors told her terrified parents it could be either of two things. Kath said: “They thought it might be leukaemia or they thought it might be a condition called HLH. The doctor said: ‘Please don’t Google it.’ Of course that’s the first thing we did. Oh gosh. It hit me like a sledge hammer. It was awful.” HLH, or haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, is a life-threatening immune condition which causes the body to react inappropriately to a ‘trigger’, usually an infection.
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