There isn't a cure for irreversible brain damage . He can't see, hear, breathe for himself, cry or show any response to pain whatsoever. The size of him in recent weeks points towards possible organ failure on top of that.

We are talking about parents using a drug which hasn't even been tested on mice on him. If it can actually cross the blood barrier and get into the brain (50% chance it can even do that) it's got a hundredth of 1 per cent of a chance of stopping his symptoms progressing. So we are talking about a child being consigned to a life deaf in the dark with a machine breathing for him and if he's in pain (no one knows what this experimental drug could do to him side effect wise) he won't have any chance of communicating it to a soul.

The more I read about this and the more I think about it I think to do that to anyone animal or human is cruel in the extreme.

The reason it's in the papers to the level it is as the parents and aunt have had blogs, fundraising, pages all over social media etc etc with a massive publicity machine. Posed photographs of the child holding his passport saying he wants to go to America and all sorts. I get why they are doing it I really do but I seriously question their reasoning and thought process behind it. And having social media campaigns slagging off and running down the name of GOSH who cannot publicly respond to their comments is bloody scandalous.

When I was a young girl my Mother said to me.. You listen here kid you're CPFC

Yep I don't know the story but I'd have to agree with this.

Their the parents and they have to live with the aftermarth of the decisions. If they feel it's best for them then who are we to judge? Will the little lad be any worse off if it doesn't work?

But yeah I don't know the story so guess that's just my general view on situations like this.

It also raises the medical ethics question. This child cannot give any form of consent to an experimental unlicensed untested drug being used on him. That's where the parents usually come in and give the consent in their interests of their child . However the American doctor being questioned yesterday via video link has agreed to use this drug on charlie has never actually met or examined him, has admitted it would be an experiment . It starts to enter a very murky area of essentially testing on humans which is to a degree fine if they can agree to it and if something goes wrong or there are side effects they can be communicated to doctors . The courts will be aware that agreement to allow it in this case Will without a doubt open the floodgates in all kinds of conditions to all manner of experiments being carried out on people , adults, children and babies. For this very reason I don't personally think they will allow it.

When I was a young girl my Mother said to me.. You listen here kid you're CPFC

I cannot understand why people keep going on about how the Doctors in this case (and other similar ones) shouldn't be allowed to "play God"........ surely they played God when they put the poor mite on life support and incubation machines, else he would be dead by now and we wouldn't be having this discussion.

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