Doctors rid baby Ryder of rare medical condition

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How a $200,000 private flight to Brisbane enabled this South Australian baby's rare condition to be diagnosed and cured.

Every parent hopes to give birth to a happy, healthy baby — but for Nicko and Trac Hoang, it would be a gruelling four months in hospital until they could take their newborn home.It is found in one in 50,000 newborn babies

Ryder had to be flown to Brisbane for specialist scans which provided crucial information on treatment Ryder Hoang was born at Ashford Hospital, in Adelaide, in October 2018, but soon after his birth he started showing signs of having abnormal blood glucose levels."It was quite challenging; everybody wants the perfect child, the perfect delivery and all that, so when we had something come that wasn't perfect it definitely took us back a little bit," Mr Hoang said.

"By about week three he had outgrown the little basinet that they had at Ashford because he was so big.""But he couldn't go home because they couldn't figure out the problem, he wasn't getting any better." At four weeks, Ryder was transferred to the Women's and Children's Hospital where he was diagnosed with a rare form of hyperinsulinism.

 

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