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My five year-old's bout of 'heat stroke' was actually aggressive brain cancer that spread to her spine - here's the warning signs I missed here

Olivia Brown developed worrying symptoms on a hot day in May this year, which her mother assumed was heat stroke. Within weeks the family had been dealt a devastating diagnosis.

Source: Cubes | 

04.12.2024, 16:26

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A mother of a five year-old with aggressive brain cancer has told of how she confused the first warning signs of the disease with an episode of severe heat stroke. 

Holly Brown, 31, a stay-at-home mum from Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, initially thought her daughter Olivia had spent too long in the sun when she began vomiting one morning in May. 

But the sickness didn't stop for the rest of that week. What's more, it came with a paralysing exhaustion.

Eventually, in mid-June, Ms Brown took her little girl took her to A&E for further investigations.

By this point, she appeared 'wobbly on her feet', and one of her eyes looked a little 'lopsided'. 

Concerned, medics embarked on a range of investigations, including detailed scans. 

Devastatingly, the results showed she had a brain tumour — though doctors were not yet sure which type or how advanced the disease was. 

Olivia was immediately rushed in for emergency surgery to fit an external ventricular drainage system to relieve a blockage preventing her spinal fluid from draining.

Olivia suffered a bout of violent vomiting on a hot day this spring, which turned out to be the first sign of deadly brain cancer.

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