A boy went to fight for life because of a rare disease that covered him with blisters and burns

A schoolboy was beaten to save his life after being struck by a rare disease that covered his entire body with blisters and burns, leaving him "scarred for life" and unable to walk unframed.

Ollie Williams, five, had a small red rash behind the ear, but in less than an hour, she spread her entire body.

Despite this, doctors reportedly told his distraught mother to treat him with Calpol.

Carly, a 30-year-old devastated mother, observed the rash turning into blisters and burns, but doctors told her that it was "a simple" viral infection. " .

She drove him to the hospital and was in a coma for two weeks, while the doctors tried to control the burns that had spread on his face and body, even going as far as he could. To close his eyes.

The boy, who has an identical twin, Jake, was "treated as if he had received acid thrown at him" and underwent a skin graft to save his life.

Carly recounted how he was "wrapped like a mummy" with bandages from head to foot, making him unrecognizable.

He had Stevens-Johnson Syndrome – a rare and serious disorder of the skin and membranes, which is usually a reaction to a drug or an infection.

Two months later, Ollie is at home but her life is scarred, and Carly says the family constantly remembers what he's been through because of his identical twin.

Doctors do not know what triggered the disease – which also caused a collapse of the lung, a "crooked" heart and made the young person unable to walk without the help of a cadre.

Carly, a mother of five, from Newbury, Berkshire, said, "It was the worst time of my life, we thought we were going to lose our son, and I can not understand what's going on. He was a perfectly healthy boy and in a few hours he had to fight to save his life. "

Ollie was treated as if she had been thrown at her with acid, she said.

"Ollie was wrapped like a mummy, he was unrecognizable and I only pray for my son to come back, his eyes were welded and we had to see the doctors using plastic scrapers under his eyes to remove the mucus.

"We were going to see Ollie in a feeding tube and a ventilator, then go home and see Jake running, that was reminiscent of how sick Ollie was and we were about to lose him," he said. she said.

Carly first noticed that his son was not feeling well when he was treated to his favorite McDonald's meal one night and that he recruited him in May. .

She carried her son on the couch and noticed a small red rash behind his ear, which spread all over his body and began to blister in less than an hour.

She said, "It was incredibly scary." He was sitting eating a McDonald's and he went back to say that it was disgusting – it was weird. because that's his absolute favorite, and then he just dropped it. "

When he turned his head, it was at that moment that I noticed a red rash behind his ear, but that did not sound like anything.

"He is allergic to cats, so I badumed he came into contact with one of them when he visited his grandparents.

"But after an hour, I only saw the eruption spread on her body," she said.

After the spread of the rash, Carly telephoned the hospital who considered her a viral infection and was asked to treat him with Calpol.

"I could really see it spreading with my own eyes, I phoned the hospital but it was called a viral infection, I knew deep down that it was Not that, I stayed at his side during the night. "

That's only when Carly called her GP at 8 am the next morning. Ollie was transported to Basingstoke Hospital and immediately plunged into a coma.

He was diagnosed with Stevens-Johnson syndrome.

Carly said, "The doctors were completely flabbergasted, only two nurses and one doctor had ever witnessed another case before.The others said it was something they would learn in one. manual, but that they probably would never have seen it before.

"All her skin, from head to foot, swollen and fell, the protective layers of her eyes, the bottom of her feet, even her own fingernails broke loose."

The devastated parents, Carly and Kelvin, took turns with Ollie for 19 hours, while also taking care of other children: Courtney, 11, Archie, eight, Jake, five, and Tommie, eleven months .

Ollie remained in a coma for two weeks. The doctors asked parents Carly and Kelvin to prepare for the worst.

He was then transferred to a burn unit at the Royal Bristol Infirmary, 80 km away, where doctors wrapped Ollie "like a mummy".

During the remaining two weeks of his hospitalization, Ollie also contracted sepsis, leaving him again forced to fight for his life.

Carly added, "When he woke up, the doctors had to pump up his lung, which collapsed, which made him feel sick and eventually twisted.

"When they managed to inflate it, the heart was pushed back on its own.This happened in the space of a day and every day was really moving.

Ollie is now learning to walk again with the help of a cadre and weekly physio visits.

Carly said, "Without doctors and nurses, Ollie would not be here, I can not thank them enough.

"He is really our miracle son."