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UK Schoolboy, 14, Struck Down By ME During A Football Match – Yet Doctors Dismissed His Symptoms As Him Being A 'Lazy Teenager'

Thursday 31 January 2019

 

From UK news outlet iNews:

 

Jasmine Lowdon and Alex Hay
Sports mad Cai Onraet pictured right
on the day he collapsed.
(Photo: Nikki Onraet)
 

Schoolboy, 14, struck down by ME during a football match – yet doctors dismissed his symptoms as him being a ‘lazy teenager’

Cai Onraet, who is now 19, was left housebound and suffering in agony and couldn't go to school for two years

By Claudia Tanner
Thursday January 24th 2019
All rights reserved. © 2019 JPIMedia Ltd.

In brief

  • Cai Onraet's onset of ME was sudden when his legs went beneath him
  • He suffered fatigue, headaches, muscle pain, and flu-like symptoms
  • Schoolboy made good recovery but aged 19 still suffers brain fog
  • Calling for better awareness of ME among public and doctors

Cai Onraet was always active and sports mad – he was captain of his school football team and played rugby every week.

But he began to suffer some bizarre symptoms. His lips swelled up and he developed a rash that worsened when he exercised or showered. It was so severe that his mother Nikki rushed him to A&E twice, but doctors were left baffled.

Then the 14-year-old collapsed suddenly while playing football.

Cai told i: “My legs went beneath me and I fell to the ground. When I tried to stand I was only able to lift my legs a few inches, as though weights had been tied around my ankles.”

Over the coming weeks, he experienced all the classic signs of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), or myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) as it’s also known.

 

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