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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Charlotte Hadfield

Mum's warning as baby breaks out in red rash that looks like burns

A baby girl's "chicken pox" turned out to be the worst case of a chronic skin condition a doctor had ever seen.

Jacqueline Smith, from Old Swan, wants to raise awareness of the condition which left her daughter Mabel Gilmore with a red rash all over her body. Mabel suffered from her first flare up of the rash days before her first birthday, which was initially diagnosed as chicken pox.

However, when the rash continued to get worse and Mabel started experiencing a high temperature, she was taken to Alder Hey Children's Hospital for further tests.

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