Mum Tells of Rare Condition That Led to Baby's Epilepsy ; Lesions in James's Brain Mean He Might Be On Medication for Life

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Campaigners have been looking to raise awareness of rare genetic condition tuberous sclerosis complex, which causes growths to develop all over the body. Jessica Williams talks to the mother of a young sufferer about living with the disease WHEN six-month-old James Tunstall started raising his hands to his face and shaking his mother assumed it was colic.

But a year and a half later he was diagnosed with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC), a condition which causes non-cancerous tumours to grow in organs all over sufferers' bodies.

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Mum Tells of Rare Condition That Led to Baby's Epilepsy ; Lesions in James's Brain Mean He Might Be On Medication for Life

Teresa Tunstall, of Woodlands Road, Trent Vale, has since discovered the colic-like symptoms were infantile epileptic fits caused by tumours which had developed in her son's brai...

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