Monday, February 11, 2008

Mysterious Illness Forces Girl to Survive on a Diet of Mints

A 19-year-old U.K. girl named Natalie Cooper is suffering from an unknown mysterious illness that causes her to vomit after eating any solid food. This causes her to be aloud only to eat mints such a tic-tacs and light mints like that to make her think she isn't hungry. All her needed nutrients are given to her through a feeding tube in the resemblance of a type of formula. At first doctors wondered if she might have bulimia, but ruled that out. Since she started using the feeding tube, she has gone from a low 70 pounds, to a healthy 98 pounds.
I'm glad they're trying to help her. A lot of doctors I hear about don't care, and try to encourage the parent to take the sick person off of feeding tube, and not help the patient. Mostly just because of laziness.

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