Crystal sisters: Siblings both face kidney failure by age 10 as 1 in 3.5m disorder causes rock to take over their bodies

A mother has revealed how she discovered both her daughters have an incredibly rare condition that is slowly turning their organs into crystal.

Jessica Kemp, was eight months pregnant with Poppy-Mae, when doctors diagnosed her first daughter Emily with the devastating disease cystinosis, It is an incurable condition that only affects 2,000 people in the world making her case one in 3.5million.


As it is a genetic disorder it meant second daughter Poppy-Mae had a one in four chance of inheriting it.       Read Full