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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Beth Lindop

Mum knew something was wrong with four-week-old baby after spotting 'green' sick

A baby girl was diagnosed with a rare condition after she started vomiting 'green' sick.

Gemma Savigar first suspected something was wrong with her daughter, Scarlett, when she was just four weeks old, and rushed her to hospital after noticing her sick looked a funny colour. Scarlett was admitted to Royal Stoke University Hospital but was quickly transferred to Alder Hey after being diagnosed with volvulus.

The condition is caused when the blood supply to part of the bowel is cut off. It only affects around one in every 3,000 babies, and Scarlett was deemed to need emergency surgery at Alder Hey's specialist unit.

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