A toddler from England has defied the odds and recovered from a rare condition that left her body covered in life-threatening bruises, according to the Daily Mail.
Hannah Hutchinson was just four weeks old when she was first diagnosed with a rare condition that affects just one in every 100,000 children. Her condition called Kaposiform hemangioendothelioma with Kasabach-Merritt syndrome leaves her suffering from tumors that dramatically depleted her blood platelet levels. As a result, her entire body may easily be covered with life-threatening bruises if she ever gets a cut. Ever since she was diagnosed, Hannah has been required by her physicians to go to the hospital daily to help monitor her condition.
However, specialists from Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool believe they may have already cured her from the condition and hope she can make a full recovery. Her mother, Vicki, from Liverpool, first suspected that something may be wrong with Hannah when she was just a month old. Back then, she developed severe bruising on her stomach and was rushed to the hospital where doctors administered several blood tests that confirmed her platelet count had dropped to a dangerously low level.
"Hannah was born healthy and had a normal delivery - but when she was four weeks old I spotted a huge bruise on her belly while I was changing her diaper. When you see something like that on your baby you think either someone has hurt her or that it is meningitis - so we rushed straight to the hospital. The doctor's thought that we had hurt Hannah at first, they didn't know what was wrong with her. It wasn't until they did a blood test that they noticed her platelets were very low."
