FOR 20 months Danielle Reid has watched her daughter suffer from undiagnosed symptoms which cause violent vomiting and choking until she is blue.

Miss Reid, 27, knew something was wrong with Tamzyn Seeley soon after birth when she would not feed, was always lethargic and felt limp “like a floppy ragdoll”.

Tamzyn would vomit undigested food just hours after eating and, despite her mum’s best efforts to cut food into the smallest pieces, she still does now.

Basic tests revealed she is allergic to dairy and soya, while her parents trial and error exposed allergies to formula milk, as well as dairy alternatives and allergy formulas.

Free-from food ranges bring her out in painful-looking rashes and her body rejects so many different types of foods, Miss Reid can remember an occasion when Tamzyn endured one month without eating.

Despite pleading with Colchester General Hospital and Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, which are both involved in Tamzyn’s care, for specialists to investigate her bowels and allergies, Miss Reid feels ignored.

She said: “It’s heartbreaking for me. At seven months she had such bad acid reflux her whole body looked sunburnt and the acid was coming out of her head, mouth and skin.

“The smell was so bad and it burnt her insides.

“Tamzyn should have had endoscopies and biopsies done already at Addenbrooke’s, but last week her dad and I were told they’re not exploring her stomach because they won’t know what to look for.

“Her specialist is refusing to do any more allergy tests and we’d have to wait another six months to have them done at another hospital.”

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Feeling failed by the NHS, Miss Reid and partner Ben Seeley, have launched a Go Fund Me page in the hope of raising £2,000 to fund private treatment.

They have contacted consultants in America for advice and to get a diagnosis.

Tamzyn, who has been admitted to hospital more than 12 times, has to wait until November for her next review.

Miss Reid said: “I’m scared for Tamzyn.

"The doctors don’t understand she’s aware it’s her stomach causing the pain – she even does this thing called ‘posturing’ where she pushes her lower abdominals down onto the side of the settee and dangles from it to relieve herself.

“She also does it over her dad’s head and when we bring her down because of the neck pain it gives him. She’s distraught.

“But even though Tamzyn is so ill, she just smiles and gets on with it, but we’re struggling.”

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