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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Wesley Holmes

Little girl's mystery illness left her 'in so much pain she couldn't move'

A little girl who came down with a mysterious illness that left her in 'so much pain she couldn't move' is still waiting for a diagnosis - three years later.

When Ellzah Burgess' mum Ashlea noticed her 18-month-old daughter's feet were turning in as she walked, doctors reassured her that she was probably just a late developer, and that her walking would improve with time. But instead her condition worsened, causing the youngster unbearable pain as she suffered from unexplained blistering all over her skin.

Now aged five, the Wolverham Primary School pupil, who lives in Ellesmere Port, uses a wheelchair to get around. But doctors are no closer to identifying the cause of her strange symptoms.

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