This Morning’s Dr Nighat Arif reveals she missed spotting cancer symptoms in her child

Watch: Dr. Nighat Arif’s son’s liver transplantation

Dr Nighat Arif admitted that he missed to identify cancer symptoms in his son and changed him to GP.

This morning, ITV’S and BBC Breakfast appeared in the TV doctor, second son Qasim, was born with a rare liver condition.

Dr Arif was reflected in the experience during a special part of ITV’s loose women today. Panelists Zoe Khan, Ph.D. “It took a long time to talk and discuss about it, because it was so long to talk about it.”

He said that his son’s skin was shaken for three weeks, newborn jaundiceIt may be more common in breastfeeding infants. In general, he was fed well and losing weight by doing everything that babies had to do, ” Facebook shipmentBut he decided to control him.

“Bile salt exported protein pump deficiency (BSEP) called a rare liver condition, which meant that the liver stopped working.” He said. “HE liver cirrhosisAnd I was told that he would have the chance to get 50% liver cancer. “

As his son’s health decreased, despite being a medical expert, he explained the helplessness and urgency of trying to understand a situation outside his expertise.

“Although I was a doctor, I knew very little about the transplant world. I knew very little about this rare situation. So I was doing my mother googling.”

Finally, the family was given destructive news that Qasim developed liver cancer – Hepatocellular carcinoma – And an urgent transplant is required. At that time it was about 10 months old.

He announced that his child was said to have come from his black and Asian past. Wait was longer Then average. “We were told to wait five times more on the transport list,” he explained.

Fear of kidnapping something

In what he described as a heart -breaking but miraculous turn, a young donor saved Qasim’s life. “The only thing we know about our donor was that he was a little child who fell from his bike in Leeds, hit the back of his head and was injured in a brain stem.”

“His family, these amazing heroes … He donated the organs of his children, and one of them was my son as a buyer of the liver.”

At that time he shaped him both personally and professionally. “The only thing I couldn’t get out of my head and I needed CBT for that, as a doctor, I missed cancer in my child, so every patient I saw, they were my child … I kept thinking that I was missing.”

“As a clinician, this hyper awake is never good.

Driving change

However, Dr Arif’s experience ultimately helped change. Now it works close to NHS Blood and Transplant. “Now there was MAX AND RENTAL LAWSo everyone He was accepted as a donorUnless they don’t choose to disable, “he explained.

Religious concerns in his family added another layer to the journey. “My father imam (a religious leader), so I said to my family, look, I will be a donor. And that, but you can’t donate in Islam. And I said, I can’t live where I am happy to buy a donor, but I can’t forgive it back.”

However, since then, progress has been made: “There was an Islamic decree called a fatwa that says that Muslims could donate in 2023. And now there is better chances for the people in the donor records. This is our little heritage as a family we have managed to raise this awareness.”

As for Qasim, now 10 years old and is developing. “He’s swimming to swim, Dr Dr Arif proudly shared.

“I wasn’t the clinician I am today. But now I empathize in a completely different way with my patients.” He said.

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