WHEN Christina Nguyen-Phuoc’s 12-day-old son suddenly refused to eat, became unresponsive and breathless, she took him to a hospital in Houston. X-rays revealed haemorrhages in his brain and eyes. Child protection services promptly put both her sons in care and took her to court.
“I told them that Andrew got sick overnight, and they said that that can’t happen, you have to shake a baby to get a brain haemorrhage,” Nguyen-Phuoc told Â鶹´«Ã½. Two months later, doctors discovered that her son actually had a rare blood disease called haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH).
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