'Healthy' girl, 5, collapsed as mum painted her nails - minutes later she was in a coma

Five-year-old Ella-May abruptly collapsed portion her parent was coating her digit nails and doctors aboriginal recovered she had suffered a cardiac apprehension arsenic she spent a period astatine Alder Hey Hospital

A young miss abruptly collapsed and had to beryllium placed into a medically induced coma erstwhile her mum was coating her digit nails.

Ella-May, five, had been laughing with her mother, Gemma Griffiths, erstwhile she abruptly stopped breathing. The frightened mum started CPR arsenic a neighbour, who is a paramedic, rushed to her assistance portion they waited for an ambulance which arrived soon afterwards.

The schoolgirl was rushed to Alder Hey wherever they sent her for a CT scan and recovered retired she had suffered a cardiac arrest. During her enactment successful infirmary she suffered different apprehension and spent a period successful infirmary recovering.

Gemma told the ECHO : "It was a rollercoaster. She woke up highly bushed the adjacent time but we conscionable enactment it down to tiredness.

“I helped retired with the Halloween enactment successful the nighttime and it was past erstwhile we realised she was acting retired of character. She was throwing herself astir and screaming.

“She went to furniture astatine 6pm that nighttime due to the fact that she was conscionable exhausted. We didn't deliberation it would beryllium this serious."

"The infirmary has been amazing. Dr Michael Bowes has worked tirelessly to assistance Ella-May. I'm successful awe of each unit subordinate there, thing was ever excessively overmuch for them. Even erstwhile she went backmost for her country past week, they each remembered her.”

While connected the ward, doctors diagnosed her with Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia (CPVT) - a uncommon information which causes irregular bosom rhythms and tin beryllium beingness threatening. Ella-May was discharged for Christmas aft having a instrumentality which records bosom rhythms but returned to Alder Hey wherever she had a sympathectomy wherever doctors chopped a nervus which tin trim adrenaline to the heart.

Gemma, who lives with her milkman fiancé Dan with their 2 different children aged 1 and 2 years old, is present raising consciousness astir the condition, with cardinal symptoms being tiredness, palpitations, fainting and light-headedness.

Ella-May's grandmother, Trudie Gillespie, is besides raising money for Alder Hey by completing a 84km motorcycle thrust adjacent month. Gemma wrote connected the fundraiser: “The infirmary volition stay a immense portion of Ella-May’s life, and we are everlastingly grateful to the unthinkable unit astatine Alder Hey.

“To amusement our appreciation and rise funds for this astonishing hospital, Granny (Trudie) is taking connected a challenge—an 84k motorcycle thrust successful February! We anticipation to rise wealth and consciousness for Alder Hey, a spot that has genuinely gone supra and beyond for our family.”