Normanby family organises stem cell donor recruitment day at Middlesbrough FC

9:00am Wednesday 4th July 2012 in News By Graeme Hetherington

THE family of an eight-month-old baby is calling on young people to step up to the challenge in an attempt to save his life.

Danny Bryan, who needs a blood stem cell often known as bone marrow transplant to stay alive, was diagnosed with a rare genetic condition, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, which means he cannot fight infection.

Doctors have told his mother, Claire Bryan, 26, that he will not survive childhood without a transplant, but the speed of his deterioration has come as a shock to the family.

His mother said: We knew that it would hit him one day, but we had no idea it would be so quick.

Wiskott-Aldrich usually starts to affect children when they are one or two years old, but the doctors have told us Danny is a particularly severe case.

Hes in hospital at the moment as hes had a virus which his immune system just cant fight off and is having specialist treatment to try to get things under control.

We know that the quicker he has a transplant the better for him and, thankfully, a couple of possible matches have come up with the Anthony Nolan charity. Were just praying that one of these comes off.

The family, of Keats Road, Normanby, is holding a donor recruitment day with the charity, which matches people with donors willing to donate their blood stem cells for transplant, at an event at Middlesbrough Football Club on Tuesday, July 10.

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Bone marrow plea to save eight-month-old Danny Bryan

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