Alice Kemenyvary thought her six month old daughter Eva had a 'tummy bug'.

A few weeks later, Eva was in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and Kemenyvary was living in a nightmare.

Eva was born healthy in November 2022 and seemed to be thriving, until a sudden bout of vomiting and diarrhoea struck in early 2023.

But doctors' tests couldn't seem to find anything wrong with her.

By the time six weeks had passed, Eva was underweight, refusing milk and failing to thrive – and her parents were terrified.

"It was very traumatic," Kemenyvary told nine.com.au.

Unwilling to see her baby get any sicker, she took Eva to hospital where she went through test after test as doctors tried to get to the root of her mystery illness.

She was moved to the PICU and there were several tou

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