Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeA 21-year-old woman was left weighing just five-and-a-half stone and needs of 21 hours of sleep every day - after her stomach was "paralysed" by kidney stones. She is unable to eat properly after after developing bilateral kidney stones - one on each side. Emma's worried mum, Helen, said: "Three years ago she started with kidney stones so I took her to A&E and they said it must be a urine infection as she was too young for kidney stones. Contact us at webnews@mirror.co.uk(Image: Examiner Live)"Eventually they did a CT scan and found it was bilateral kidney stones which is one on each side. Doctors think that, due to the large amount of antibiotics that were used to treat Emma's kidney stones, the medicine killed off all of her health gut bacteria, effectively leaving her stomach paralysed.

Source: Daily Mirror May 08, 2021 19:50 UTC