Picture of health! Zac's fighting fit after vital liver op while still a baby

A MOTHER whose “miracle” three-year-old is one of the youngest babies to have received a liver transplant is urging other people to discuss organ donation with their loved ones.

- By Lucinda Cameron

Arlene McNab first suspected her son, Zac was not well a few days after he was born in June 2022, when she noticed a bruise on his leg.

She and her husband Brian took him to the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow where he was placed in the Intensive Care Unit and at six days old was transferred to Leeds Children’s Hospital.

There, he underwent tests which found he had Haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), a rare immune disorder which had been triggered by an enterovirus and had led to organ failure.

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The family, who live in Clydebank, near Glasgow, were told Zac would need a liver transplant and he underwent the operation the following month, becoming one of the youngest babies to have such a transplant.

Mrs McNab said: "He was put on the transplant list at five weeks old and he was put there on Friday night and we got a call on the Sunday afternoon to say that there was a potential liver for him. He was lucky we got the call quickly."