A four-year-old was hospitalized for two months after suffering a stroke — which was likely triggered by a common childhood illness she’d picked up months before.
Olivia Elliot, now 5, woke up vomiting and complaining of a headache in June 2025 but her mother, Rebecca, 31, initially thought she had just picked up a bug.
But when the tot toppled on one side and couldn’t grip her mother’s hand, she was rushed to hospital and her condition rapidly deteriorated.
After CT scans, MRI scans, blood tests and a lumbar puncture, doctors confirmed the four-year-old had suffered a stroke.
They discovered severe inflammation in one of the main arteries…
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