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Fionnuala Boyle & Craig Williams

Glasgow schoolgirl who suffers up to 300 seizures a day 'robbed of her childhood'

A Glasgow schoolgirl who suffers up to 300 seizures a day has been 'robbed of her childhood', her distraught mum has said.

Eight-year-old Olivia McCafferty has Doose Syndrome, a very debilitating form of childhood epilepsy.

She can suffer hundreds of seizures every day, some of them causing her to lose consciousness, and she has endured serious falls that have left her black and blue.

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