WHY ME? ..asks boy who vomits every five minutes

Rare illness means Josh now has to be taken to hospital every six weeks

- SARAH WARD

A 13-YEAR-OLD boy suffers from an illness which makes him violently sick every five minutes.

Josh Wright sometimes cannot speak after being hit by a two-day-long bout of vomiting.

His mum, Julie, was convinced the illness was more than a sick bug after Josh was first hospitalised aged one.

The toddler was vomiting constantly and couldn't keep fluids down but medics could find nothing wrong and Josh was back to normal in the morning.

Over the next four years, his episodes of sickness continued and Julie, from Portobello, Edinburgh, began to keep a log. She discovered he was being sick every 12 weeks, and would start vomiting during the night and be sick every five minutes until morning.