Gold Coast girl’s tonsillitis symptoms found to be precursor to leukemia

Three-year-old Arlee O’Mahoney has been “pretty unwell” in the last couple of months.

The Queensland girl developed an ear infection and then tonsillitis which she “just couldn’t shake”, her mum Kelli O’Mahoney says.

When Arlee’s tonsils became so “swollen she was having trouble breathing” and she looked a “little pale”, doctors took a blood test.

It came back with a clear diagnosis: leukemia, and that’s what was affecting her body’s ability to fight infections.

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