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Teens Rare Vomiting Disorder

A teenager was held in a psychiatric ward for six MONTHS – after doctors diagnosed her rare vomiting condition as an eating disorder.Lyam Baker, 15, shrank from a healthy size 12 to a size zero within months after developing Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome – a physical condition that causes sufferers to vomit several times a day.But medics believed the teen was purposely making herself sick – and held her on a mental health ward for months before convincing them she was sane.

A teenager was held in a psychiatric ward for six MONTHS - after doctors diagnosed her rare vomiting condition as an eating disorder.Lyam Baker, 15, shrank from a healthy size 12 to a size zero within months after developing Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome - a physical condition that causes sufferers to vomit several times a day.But medics believed the teen was purposely making herself sick - and held her on a mental health ward for months before convincing them she was sane.

A teenager was held in a psychiatric ward for six MONTHS - after doctors diagnosed her rare vomiting condition as an eating disorder.Lyam Baker, 15, shrank from a healthy size 12 to a size zero within months after developing Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome - a physical condition that causes sufferers to vomit several times a day.But medics believed the teen was purposely making herself sick - and held her on a mental health ward for months before convincing them she was sane.

A teenager was held in a psychiatric ward for six MONTHS - after doctors diagnosed her rare vomiting condition as an eating disorder.Lyam Baker, 15, shrank from a healthy size 12 to a size zero within months after developing Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome - a physical condition that causes sufferers to vomit several times a day.But medics believed the teen was purposely making herself sick - and held her on a mental health ward for months before convincing them she was sane.

A teenager was held in a psychiatric ward for six MONTHS - after doctors diagnosed her rare vomiting condition as an eating disorder.Lyam Baker, 15, shrank from a healthy size 12 to a size zero within months after developing Cyclical Vomiting Syndrome - a physical condition that causes sufferers to vomit several times a day.But medics believed the teen was purposely making herself sick - and held her on a mental health ward for months before convincing them she was sane.

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