Boy falls asleep for 11 days straight and doctors can't work out why
Seven-year-old Wyatt Shaw has left doctors speechless after he fell into a deep sleep for almost two weeks.
Doctors are baffled at what caused Wyatt to sleep for 11 days but to the relief of family he did wake back up.
Wyatt was taken to hospital in Kentucky in the US after his mother struggled to wake him.
The Year 2 student had had a busy night at his uncle's wedding where he was the ring bearer.
His parents say he danced the night away but "seemed fine" when he went to bed later that night.
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“He was perfectly fine. He danced all night. He was so outgoing,” his grandmother Rhonda Thompson told The News Enterprise.
The morning after the wedding Wyatt woke up with a stomach ache and complained his head hurt.
“You could tell he didn’t feel good... but we thought he had just had too much cake from the wedding,” his grandmother said.
He was dozing in and out of consciousness, drinking water and watching cartoons.
When he went to bed, his mother struggled to wake him and when he did wake, seemed lethargic.
Several tests were run on Wyatt at hospital while he slept including MRI scans and EEG's.
He was tested for parasites, viruses, bacteria and infectious diseases.
They all came back negative.
Ms Thompson said while he has woken and it's a good sign, he is having trouble talking and walking.
She said the ordeal has been “heart wrenching.”
“The world stops when your grandbabies are sick,” she said.
“Every result kept coming back within a normal range. They couldn’t find anything and they couldn’t treat him until they found something. He was on no medicines. He just woke up.”
Doctors are continuing to work to find out what is wrong with the seven-year-old and are also in contact with a doctor in London in a bid to find answers.
