A MUM is struggling to raise money to fund special treatment for her 19-month-old daughter who has rare and severe epilepsy. Tia Holt has now been diagnosed with severe complex epilepsy, where so far doctors at the Royal Blackburn Hospital have found three different types, but are now at a loss at what to do. Mum Chloe Cox, from Great Harwood, made the decision to go to the private Alexandra Hospital in Manchester, with a specialist able to treat her, but the costs are not affordable for the mum alone. She said: “We got an EEG put in place and they came back that to say Tia had got worse with multiple types of epilepsy.
Chloe Cox s 18-month-old Tia Holt has infantile epilepsy, which could see her paralysed for life. Infantile spasms usually start in children aged one and causes seizures, which can be mistaken for colic and reflux, but is a chaotic brainwave pattern that can lead to loss of skills and brain damage. Miss Cox, of Great Harwood, said: “It started in November 2019, she started rolling her eyes back and was twitching, then it would stop and start again 10 minutes later.” After taking Tia to Royal Blackburn Hospital, Miss Cox was told it was simply cholic, but she took her back after it continued in January 2020, when she was diagnosed with infantile epilepsy.