A 16-year-old has been diagnosed with a rare bowel condition that has left him stuck inside and connected to a feeding tube for 13 hours a day.
James Felix, from the Rhondda, was diagnosed with solitary rectal ulcer syndrome (SRUS) a year ago at Noah's Ark Hospital. SRUS is a rare disorder that often occurs in people with chronic constipation and can cause rectal bleeding and straining during bowel movements.
"It's been a horrendous year," said his mother, Linzi Coleman. "At the start, James started losing a lot of blood and I thought maybe it was a haemorrhoid and then I thought this isn't right.” Concerned for her son, she took James to the Royal Glamorgan Hospital and was later referred to Noah’s Ark Hospital to see gastroenterologists who diagnosed him with SRUS.
