A Scots school girl who caught Strep A was left fighting for her life in hospital after her GP failed to spot the symptoms - twice.
Ellie Young began experiencing a sore throat and vomiting at the end of October and was given a telephone consultation by her local doctor's surgery Oak Lodge Medical Practice.
The six-year-old’s mum was told her daughter had a viral infection which would clear up on its own but on November 3, the youngster's temperature spiked to 40.3 degrees.
She was hallucinating, vomiting blood and had developed a rash around her mouth but was sent home from an emergency GP visit with a gastroenteritis diagnosis and Dioralyte.
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