A heartbroken mum fears her three-year-old may never walk, talk or eat on her own again after a virus likened to a common ...

Three-year-old Daisy-Rae Reid, "loved her food" and "running around", but in April this year she suddenly started vomiting ...

Naomi Wall, 29, from Essex, said her three-year-old daughter, Daisy-Rae Reid, “loved her food” and “loved running around”, ...

The family were then taken to Gosh where Naomi said Daisy had an MRI and a lumbar puncture, also known as a spinal tap. “They ...

A heartbroken Essex mum has shared the harrowing ordeal of her three year old daughter, who may never walk, talk or eat ...

One tap was made without production of ... specific reasons can be offered for its occurrence after spinal anesthesia. Traumatic lumbar puncture, though not a factor in the cases reported above ...

If an infection is suspected, a lumbar puncture (spinal tap) may be ordered to extract a sample of cerebrospinal fluid for evaluation in the lab. An electromyogram (EMG) is another valuable tool ...

It may also be measured by conducting a lumbar puncture of the spine, also known as a spinal tap, to measure the pressure of ...

Although a lumbar puncture (spinal tap) can measure spinal fluid pressure, continual intracranial pressure monitoring over 24 hours or more may be more appropriate for diagnosis when your doctor wants ...