A Scots school girl who caught Strep A was left fighting for her life in hospital after her GP failed to spot the symptoms - twice. Ellie Young began experiencing a sore throat and vomiting at the end of October and was given a telephone consultation by her local doctor's surgery Oak Lodge Medical Practice.
The six-year-old’s mum was told her daughter had a viral infection which would clear up on its own but on November 3, the youngster's temperature spiked to 40.3 degrees. She was hallucinating, vomiting blood and had developed a rash around her mouth but was sent home from an emergency GP visit with a gastroenteritis diagnosis and Dioralyte.
The p2 pupil continued to deteriorate with mum Emma Clark calling NHS 24 four days later. She was rushed to Wishaw General Hospital by ambulance where medics discovered she had developed sepsis from the bacteria as well as having the Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
