Pretty teenager Megan Harvey is banned from having fun (Picture: Caters)

We all get that sick feeling in the pit of our stomach when the nerves kick in but for one girl, too much excitement can mean 12-hour vomiting sessions or a week in hospital.

Megan Harvey suffers from cyclical vomiting syndrome, which causes her fervour to become a fever whenever the anticipation of an event grows too high.

The 14-year-old’s condition saw her spending her prom night holed up in hospital while her school friends partied the night away.

She was diagnosed with CVS after repeatedly becoming ill as the summer holidays approached.


Her mother, Jodie, of Belvedere in Kent, said: ‘She goes into a kind of waking coma when she’s sick and when she’s recovered, she can’t remember what has happened.



‘One year, we travelled to Spain by coach for our family holiday. Megan was sick for the entire 12 hours of the journey – it was awful.

‘Now I don’t let Megan go for parties or sleepovers before we go away – we try and keep her as quiet as possible to prevent the holiday being ruined.’

CVS is thought to affect almost two per cent of school-age children.

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