A Scots teen with a rare and potentially fatal condition which causes excruciating pain when she eats is heading to Germany for a £90,000 surgery which could finally cure her. Emma Noble, 17, was diagnosed with multiple disorders including Wilkie's Syndrome - where part of the blood supply to small intestine is obstructed - after visiting a world-renowned specialist in Leipzig earlier this year. Her parents paid £6000 to travel to Germany to see Professor Thomas Scholbach, an expert in vascular compressions, after becoming convinced that the rare abnormality was at the root of their daughter's ordeal.
READ MORE: What's it really like to stay at the wellness resort Oprah said was the 'best ever' spa Michael Mosley's 5:2 diet worked for me. But what does the science say? What is the future for the NHS under the next UK Government? Symptoms first emerged three years ago when she began suffering inexplicable abdominal pain whenever she ate, along with bouts of vomiting and diarrhoea, and by December last year her weight had fallen so low she was no longer on the centile chart - the measurement used to evaluate children's height and weight compared to their peer group. However, numerous tests and investigations carried out by doctors in paediatric and adult gastroenterology services at NHS Forth Valley and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde failed to find anything wrong with Emma, and she was eventually discharged with advice to eat "little and often".
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