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Originally Posted by Niamh.

Jesus poor kids, that's some sort of a disease isn't "Munchausen by proxy"? You would wonder just how she managed to fool Doctors into believing her

It does sound a lot like MbP... and the thing with doctors is that a lot of symptoms aren't acute enough to be noticeable at the time and they have to rely on patients (and care-givers) giving accurate reports of symptoms. For example, say you suffer from painful abdominal pains that come with swelling... but it's in random "attacks" with no specific trigger. You can make a doctors appointment but it can be almost impossible to time it so that they can actually observe anything happening. They just have to believe your account of what it's like and start making diagnostic steps from there.

Also with more severe MbP (which this would definitely be, if it is that) often the carer finds ways to create genuine symptoms that they know will be mistaken for something else, if they spin a different story along with them.


Also if it is MbP then obviously her primary motivation is NOT "to get more benefits money". I'd guess it's more the press spinning that side of it than the courts, though.