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Incurable Heart Disease Could Prove Fatal to British Sisters
Chloe, Courtney and Melissa McAllister, aged 13, 12, and eight, suffer from Long QT Syndrome, a disease that can be hereditary, and affects about one in every 10,000 people.
The three girls were diagnosed with the disease, which causes irregular heartbeats and can lead to sudden death, after Courtney had a seizure at the age of five.
Doctors at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow had at first thought it was epilepsy but after an ECG test was conducted on her heart it showed she had Long QT Syndrome.
Tests were carried out on Chloe and Melissa and both were found to have the illness, which doctors believe they inherited from their mother Sharon, who died at the age of 23 in February 2002 when Melissa was just five weeks old.
"I was tested and I'm not a carrier of the condition, so it must have come from Sharon's side of the family," the Daily Mail quoted their father Stephen as saying.
"It was very distressing when they were all diagnosed. Melissa found it very hard to deal with, especially when the doctors told us that is what had caused their mother to die.
"The attacks can happen when they are sleeping so I'm constantly getting up in the night to check on them," the stay-at-home father added.
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