"My Child Thinks There Are Bugs In His Tummy When He Is Really Battling Acute Blood Cancer"

At 5, Mohammed Nihal is too young to understand anything but he knows that there is a reason he cannot eat chocolates and ice creams like before. His parents have told him he has small bugs in his stomach that make him sick. Unfortunately, it is not the real reason.“We have told him that he cannot eat things from outside because there are bugs in his tummy. He gets confused when we say that but doesn’t throw a fit. He remains calm and goes on playing all by himself,” says Nihal’s mother Salika, who was heartbroken after she found out that her son had blood cancer just 15 days back.A diagnosis they weren’t prepared forNihal did not have any symptoms at all, except a swelling in his stomach.“At first we thought his tummy was swollen because he had troubles with digestion. But a trip to the hospital revealed that he had inflamed lymph nodes. His WBC count was also unusually high. We were not expecting anything serious as Nihal did’t have a history of serious illness, but th
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