Yorkshire Evening Post (Leeds, England)

Liver disease in children.

Yorkshire Evening Post (Leeds, England) | October 31, 2007 | Copyright

THEY say a mother's instinct is never wrong. For young Wakefield mum Joanna Haren, it was that very instinct which may have saved her baby son's life.

Joanna's 13-month-old son Luke was diagnosed with a rare liver disease last year, even though she had been told for weeks that there was nothing wrong with her baby,

Midwives and GPs had been unable to spot the signs of biliary atresia - a rare condition that affects just 50 babies in England every year.

The condition means that bile is unable to drain out of the baby's liver.

At just…

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