Mum describes symptoms as daughter died after catching flu, aged just 25
Daily Mirror · Neil Shaw ·
She is now sharing her story in a bid to raise awareness of the deadly disease
She is now sharing her story in a bid to raise awareness of the deadly disease
A 25-year-old woman died in just over a month after an illness triggered by catching the flu. When Rachel Catterall’s daughter, Daisy, phoned her one morning complaining of swollen glands in her neck, neither of them thought much of it.
But just over a month later, the 25-year-old had died. Her flu-like symptoms triggered a life-threatening condition, hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), in which an overactive immune system attacks the body’s organs and blood cells.
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