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Hannah Phillips

Edinburgh boy diagnosed with dementia after showing same signs as 80-year-old great uncle

A boy was diagnosed with childhood dementia when he was just six - after his parents noticed he was displaying similar symptoms to his 80-year-old great uncle who was also battling the disease.

Kayden Traynor was a perfectly normal and active child until he started suffering with memory loss, seizures and his mobility skills and eyesight began to deteriorate.

Worried mum Valerie Traynor, 34, noticed that Kayden's symptoms were similar to those of her 80-year-old uncle George who had been diagnosed with dementia a few years earlier.

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