Phone pics out tot's eye cancer
A MUM discovered her baby had a deadly cancerous tumour after taking the tot's pic with her camera phone.
Elizabeth Hale took photos of little Thomas as she tried out her brand new mobile.
But every time she photographed the eight-month-old a strange glare from Thomas’ eye appeared on the snap.
The glare from the camera revealed light sensitive cells in his eye which could not be seen face-to-face — a sign of the killer disease.
Elizabeth, 32, from Halifax, West Yorks, said: “To look at him before you would never have seen anything was wrong.
“His vision was fine and he was just like any other happy, smiling eight-month-old.
“It was on March 4 when I got a new camera phone and was playing around and taking photographs of the children.
“The first picture of Thomas looked unusual so I took a few more and his eyes on them all looked different.”
Elizabeth’s sister who works as a nurse told her to take Thomas to a GP.
Reflection
Within days Thomas was diagnosed with retinoblastoma — a cancer which affects children under the age of five.
Thomas has four tumours, one in his left eye which reflects back on the camera while the other three are in his right eye.
Elizabeth said Thomas is responding well to the laser treatment he has every three weeks.
He is also on a six-month course of chemotherapy.
Elizabeth and schoolteacher husband Neil now want other parents to check their children’s eyes.
She added: “Many people would take the photograph and just think it was a problem with the camera, especially if it’s a phone camera.
“I do think what if I had not got a new phone.
“Without that first photograph who knows how long it would have been until we found out.”
Retinoblastoma affects around 50 children every year and 95 per cent will survive after treatment.
Signs include a cats eye reflection in photographs, or a black eye on flash photographs, a squint or a cloudy eye.
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Elizabeth Hale took photos of little Thomas as she tried out her brand new mobile.
But every time she photographed the eight-month-old a strange glare from Thomas’ eye appeared on the snap.
The glare from the camera revealed light sensitive cells in his eye which could not be seen face-to-face — a sign of the killer disease.
Elizabeth, 32, from Halifax, West Yorks, said: “To look at him before you would never have seen anything was wrong.
“His vision was fine and he was just like any other happy, smiling eight-month-old.
“It was on March 4 when I got a new camera phone and was playing around and taking photographs of the children.
“The first picture of Thomas looked unusual so I took a few more and his eyes on them all looked different.”
Elizabeth’s sister who works as a nurse told her to take Thomas to a GP.
Reflection
Within days Thomas was diagnosed with retinoblastoma — a cancer which affects children under the age of five.
Thomas has four tumours, one in his left eye which reflects back on the camera while the other three are in his right eye.
Elizabeth said Thomas is responding well to the laser treatment he has every three weeks.
He is also on a six-month course of chemotherapy.
Elizabeth and schoolteacher husband Neil now want other parents to check their children’s eyes.
She added: “Many people would take the photograph and just think it was a problem with the camera, especially if it’s a phone camera.
“I do think what if I had not got a new phone.
“Without that first photograph who knows how long it would have been until we found out.”
Retinoblastoma affects around 50 children every year and 95 per cent will survive after treatment.
Signs include a cats eye reflection in photographs, or a black eye on flash photographs, a squint or a cloudy eye.
source
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