A schoolgirl has been left paralysed below the neck after catching the flu.
Lexi Brown, 14, fell ill in December last year with a temperature and dizziness – but rang her mother a few days later screaming in pain.
The GCSE student, from Clacton–on–Sea in Essex, was rushed to hospital after receiving CPR, where she was put in an induced coma.
Doctors now suspect she suffered a spinal stroke which was triggered by a bout of flu.
When she awoke, Lexi was unable to walk, talk or breathe unaided – and has since been in hospital using a ventilator.
Her mother, Stacy Grantham, 33, described
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