Boy, 3, diagnosed with lethal illness after symptoms dismissed as winter colds

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Manraj Singh Hans began suffering regular colds along with high temperatures which he struggled to shake

A three-year-old boy was diagnosed with a lethal illness after his parents originally dismissed the symptoms as being winter bugs picked up at nursery. Manraj Singh Hans began suffering regular colds along with having high temperatures, which he’d struggle to shift, but his mum and dad thought he was just tired "because it was winter."

Dad, Narinder, 47, and mum, Parm, 42, took him to the doctors 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 before he was eventually diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL).

Narinder, of Biggleswade, 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 picking stuff up there.

“We took him to the GP to get checked out and were told he could potentially have a urine infection. We were given some antibiotics, but that didn’t seem to help.

“Soon after, Parm also took him to the hospital to have him looked at because he was saying his legs were hurting. They checked him and said it could be to do with the urine infection or some sort of other infection, and we were sent on our way.

“We realised afterwards that also around this time, we converted his cot into a cot bed so he could come to us in the night if needed, but he wasn't doing that. Instead, he was just calling us to come and get him. We didn't really think much of it, we just thought he was tired because it was winter.”

As Manraj’s temperatures continued, Narinder and Parm made several more visits to the GPs, but his symptoms were again put down to seasonal illnesses and infections.

However, when Narinder noticed blood in his nappy, they were eventually taken more seriously. Narinder, who works as a strategic customer success manager for a tech company, added: “I took…

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