Boy’s leukemia symptoms mistaken for winter colds

Little Manraj Singh Hans. (CCLG via SWNS) By Ed ChattertonA 3-year-old boy was diagnosed with leukemia after his parents originally dismissed the symptoms as being winter bugs picked up at preschool.Manraj Singh Hans began suffering regular colds along with having high temperatures, which he’d struggle to shake, but his mom and dad thought he was just tired “because it was winter.”Dad Narinder, 47, and mom Parm, 42, took him to the doctor but were sent on their way with antibiotics after being told he most likely had an infection.Manraj’s symptoms went on to be repeatedly dismissed by healthcare professionals before he was eventually diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).Narinder, of Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, said: “We’d give him Calpol and they [the symptoms] would go away, but then come back a week or so later and go on a little bit longer.“We just thought, ‘It’s the winter season, we’re going to be getting colds and bugs.’“He was at nursery, too, so we thought he was…

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