RIP, young lady. A growing number of victims with baffled doctors unaware of what might be causing such death?
“A 16-year-old girl died from a blood clot on her brain just weeks after she started taking the contraceptive pill to ease period pain.
She began to take them on November 25 but by December 5 she started having headaches - and by the end of the week she began vomiting.
When her worried family contacted the 111 NHS helpline they were told there were 'no red flags' and they should just take her for a check up the following morning.
But last Monday evening, she began screaming in pain and collapsed in the bathroom at home. Her family then drove her to Hull Royal Infirmary where a blood clot on the brain was identified by a CT scan.
She underwent an emergency operation but died two days later, leaving her family heartbroken.
Doctors don't know of any other cause for the blood clot and told the family there was no infection.”
"It's easier to fool someone than to convince them they've been fooled."16
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