The mum of a young lad who had a headache has issued a warning to all parents after she insisted on getting a scan - and was told that if he hadn’t had it he would have died. Young Henri Brammer was taken to his local hospital’s A&E suffering from eye pain feeling lethargic.
Doctors said they thought the nine-year-old was suffering from a viral infection and he was about to be sent home. But mum Carly was worried and said she had insisted on him having a scan - and he underwent brain surgery for five hours that same day when it showed a potentially lethal infection in his brain.
The scan had showed a 10cm ball of pus on his brain and he was taken to nearby Alder Hay hospital for neurosurgery. Mum Carly told the Liverpool Echo: “He was perfectly healthy, he wasn’t ill except for the headache.
