HARVEY'S STRUGGLE
KATIE Price's son Harvey is out of hospital after a long stint in intensive care.
The 18-year-old, who is partially blind, autistic and has Prader-Willi syndrome, has now been discharged from hospital.
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What is the latest on Harvey Price's condition?
On July 21, 2020, Katie Price told The Sun Online that son Harvey has been discharged from hospital 10 days after being rushed to intensive care.
The 42-year-old star was over the moon as she took her 18 year old home having previously "prepared for the worst".
Speaking exclusively to The Sun Online, Katie beamed: "It feels like Christmas. I can't stop smiling.
"The day started badly but it's ending as the best day ever."
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Harvey had been in intensive care after taking ill at the Prices' home.
The reality star previously opened up to about the heartbreaking moment she was kept from the hospital room due to coronavirus restrictions.
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Katie said: "It's awful seeing him in there with all the tubes in him. And when they put him into intensive care, he was ill but he still managed to shout 'I want my mummy.'
"I was standing outside the room with Junior and they wouldn't let me in. It was horrible."
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Timeline of Harvey Price's condition
- May 2002: Price gave birth to Harvey. His father is retired footballer Dwight Yorke.
- May 2002: Harvey was found to be blind, with septo-optic dysplasia.
- May 2002: After more tests he was additionally diagnosed to be on the autistic spectrum and to have Prader–Willi syndrome.
- 2005: Harvey spent six weeks in Great Ormond Street hospital while doctors tried to explain his weight gain.
- July 2016: Peter Andre revealed that he had started spending time with Harvey again after four years apart.
- March 2017: Katie Price launched a Government petition to make online bullying a "specific criminal offence", after trolls targeted Harvey.
- July 2018: Katie said she fears her 22-stone son Harvey could die from diabetes if he doesn't get fit.
- January 2019: It was revealed that Parliament backed Katie's efforts to criminalise online hate.
- April 2019: Katie announced she was putting her son in residential care because he was like a “24 stone nightmare newborn”.
- October 2019: Harvey performed in Autism’s Got Talent.
- March 2020: After coronavirus lockdown began, Katie isolated with Harvey to protect him.
- June 29 2020: Harvey rushed to hospital after needing "urgent medical attention" while celebrating sister Princess' 13th birthday.
- June 30 2020: In hospital he was given chest x-rays - doctors decide it was a chest infection.
- July 1 2020: Harvey taken home to recover.
- July 12, 2020: Harvey rushed to hospital by ambulance with breathing problems after his temperature shot up to a dangerously high 42 degrees.
- July 14, 2020: Katie confirms Harvey does not have coronavirus but is remaining in intensive care for ‘complex’ medical condition.
- July 17, 2020: Harvey taken out of ICU
- July 20, 2020: Katie plans to take son Harvey on holiday with the family
- July 21, 2020: Harvey is released from hospital and allowed to go home. He tested negatively for deadly coronavirus.
- July 23, 2020: Doctors rule Harvey is not well enough to go on holiday to Turkey.
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What is Prader-Willi syndrome?
PWS is a genetic condition that can impact muscle tone, sexual development and the function of the nervous system.
As well as this, those with Prader-Willi syndrome are more likely to have learning difficulties.
Often, it also sparks a constant desire to eat food and a permanent feeling of hunger which leads to child obesity.
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However, the syndrome is very rare, with estimating that it affects "no more than one in every 15,000 children born in England".
describes the medical characteristics of the condition as:
• Hypotonia: weak muscle tone, and floppiness at birth.
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• Hypogonadism: immature development of sexual organs and other sexual characteristics.
• Obesity: caused by excessive appetite and overeating (hyperphagia), and a decreased calorific requirement owing to low energy expenditure levels, although obesity is not normally a feature of those whose food intake is strictly controlled.
• Central nervous system and endocrine gland dysfunction: causing varying degrees of learning disability, short stature, hyperphagia, somnolence (excessive sleepiness), and poor emotional and social development.
Katie Price's son Harvey discharged to go home from hospital after ten days in intensive care
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