Mum's alert after tot's fight with rare disease

The mum of a toddler with a rare disease has called for greater awareness of the condition after her daughter was diagnosed with just 24 hours to spare.

- RUTH SUTER

Worrying time Delilah had been ill for 10 days before being diagnosed

Little Delilah McGeogh, two, was diagnosed with Kawasaki disease - an acute, self-limiting illness that causes inflammation of blood vessels - in July last year after suffering 10 days of illness.

The tot, from Paisley, was taken to her GP by mum Ashleigh when she began suffering from a high temperature that wouldn't stabilise and a swollen red throat.

Her symptoms were initially put down to tonsillitis but when she woke up with a lump on her neck, she was rushed to A&E.

Mum Ashleigh, 31, said: "Her symptoms were generic, at first I thought she was coming down with a cold. When she started struggling to swallow I took her to the GP who initially thought she had tonsillitis.

"We were given antibiotics and sent home but a few days then passed and she wasn’t improving, she was lethargic and dehydrated. When she woke up with a golf ball sized lump in her neck we rushed her to A&E."