12 year-old Ellie weighs 36lb and cannot put on weight

A schoolgirl who weighs two-and-a-half stone and cannot put on weight has baffled doctors. Ellie Wiseman, 12, has undergone extensive tests during 130 hospital visits, but her condition remains undiagnosed.

Despite eating six meals a day, she is unable to gain weight. At 4ft tall, she weighs just 36lb - little more than a toddler.



Ellie is so weak that she can only walk for 100 yards before resting and has to use a stroller and an electric wheelchair to help her get around. However, she still manages to attend school.

Her mother, Kirsty, 36, and father Mark, 41, a former Army sergeant, refuse to accept that nothing can be done. Mrs Wiseman, from Ashton-in-Makerfield, Greater Manchester, said: "I have strong suspicions about the cause of her condition. My husband spent 22 years in the Army and was in the Gulf War."



Mrs Wiseman has kept an internet blog since 2005 detailing Ellie's case. She has just been contacted by a woman in Nevada, whose husband is a professor of medicine, inviting them to see a specialist geneticist and cardiologist in America.

Ellie is attempting a one-mile sponsored walk near their home in April to raise £5,000 for the trip.