Girl, 12, vomits up to 40 times a DAY.

                                                  A schoolgirl crippled by a rare condition that saw her vomit up to 40 times a day was sick so often that doctors were convinced she was pregnant.

Jayde Pitt, 12, from Hereford, was so ill that she spent up to 18 hours a day vomiting in her bathroom.

Her illness is so rare that baffled doctors were concerned she could be pregnant or bulimic.

After months of sickness, Jayde’s mother, Leanne Rodrigues, was told that her daughter has a condition known as Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome, which causes sufferers to be regularly sick.

After weeks of tests Jayde was put on medication to control her condition, but can still be sick five or six times a day if she gets nervous.                                                                                                                     

Ms Rodrigues said: ‘It was awful to watch Jayde go through all this and not be able to help her in any way.

‘I was so worried about her and it didn’t matter how much I pleaded with doctors, they just couldn’t pin down what was wrong with her. ‘I have two younger daughters and I couldn’t be in the bathroom seeing to Jayde all the time as well as looking after her sisters.                                                                                      

‘We have since found out it is a notoriously difficult condition to diagnose and when Jayde first fell ill it felt like whichever way we turned we came to a dead end.’ It was only after appointments with five different doctors that Jayde was diagnosed with the rare condition. Ms Rodrigues said: ‘It had got to the point where I felt like we would never get answers and seeing Jayde suffer was just horrible

We tried so many different things to help stop her from being sick but there was nothing we could do.

‘She spent the majority of her days sitting in the bathroom just being sick repeatedly.’                                      

CYCLICAL VOMITING SYNDROME

CVS is characterised by recurrent, prolonged attacks of severe vomiting, nausea and lethargy, with no apparent cause. 

It is thought there might be a genetic link. 

Vomiting persists at frequent intervals, 5-6 times per hour at the peak, for periods ranging from hours to 10 days or more. It most commonly lasts for between 1 and 4 days.

Symptoms include: Severe and consistent nausea up to six times an hour, pallor, headaches and abdominal pain, lethargy and dizziness

The onset of CVS can occur at any time but most commonly develops between the age of 3-7 years and can persist for periods of time ranging from months to decades.

SOURCE: Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome Association UK

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            posted by Emanto Ngaloru Nov 18, 2013.