A mother has been arrested for forcing her four-year-old son to undergo unnecessary surgeries by fabricating medical conditions that he never had.

Megan Gee, 30, is accused of putting her four-year-old son through grueling procedures including having a feeding tube inserted into his stomach between 2016 and 2017.

Doctors say she lied repeatedly about his health, saying at times that he was not eating and that he was suffering seizures.

She has also claimed that he is autistic and promotes herself on social media as the 'proud mom' of a 'superhero'.

She was arrested on Wednesday in Wichita Falls, Texas, on suspicion of causing serious bodily injury to a child. It remains unclear if she is in custody.

Megan Gee is pictured with her four-year-old son. Since 2015, she is accused of lying to doctors about his health, claiming he is 'very sick' when in fact he has been healthy

Gee is pictured in her mugshot. She was taken into custody in Wichita Falls, Texas, on Wednesday on charges of causing serious bodily injury to a child

The boy, who DailyMail.com is not naming, was taken out her care in 2017 after doctors reported their suspicions that his mother was fabricating his health problems, but he went back to live with her in February this year.

It is unclear exactly what conditions she told doctors she believed the boy was suffering.

According to the Star Telegram, Gee's lies led to her son being prescribed 77 different medicines.

He has been hospitalized or taken to a doctor's office 227 times, meaning he has spent more than a third of his short life in physicians' care.

The earliest doctor report to police is in 2016 when she started taking her son to the emergency room.

One doctor said she'd presented him three times, claiming he had been vomiting and had diarrhea but the boy showed no such symptoms.

Gee also claims her son is Autistic. Some of the doctors who have reported her say they fear she is faking his developmental problems and that he is not autistic

Doctors from several different hospitals near Fort Worth in Texas have reported her over the last three years, including staff at Cook Children's Hospital (shown)

At around the same time, she was also taking him to different hospitals claiming he had constipation, seizures and was vomiting.

Between October 2015 and 2017, Gee called Dr. Lynn Hunt's office 42 times.

In February 2016, she claimed he was not eating. In March, Hunt's office surgically inserted a feeding tube in his stomach.

The doctor defended her actions when interviewed.

'If a mother tells you, "My child is not eating, he does all these things," and you’ve exhausted all the other possibilities, then a feeding tube is a way to get nutrition to a child that refuses to eat or can’t eat or vomits everything they eat,' Hunt told the Star Telegram.

FAKING IT: WHAT IS MUNCHAUSEN? Munchausen by Proxy is a condition where an adult will invent medical conditions for his or her child so that they can get attention or sympathy. A dangerous facet of this is how they will often induce symptoms in the child to better illustrate the lie. Munchausen by Proxy is typically considered a severe form of child abuse. Munchausen Syndrome is when a person will invent their own ailment or illness for sympathy or attention. Both are mental disorders. Advertisement

In June 2017, the boy spent a week in the hospital after being presented by his mother who said he had dilated pupils and had suffered seizures.

But after a week, doctors realized he showed none of the symptoms of conditions that would cause what she had described.

They also weaned him off of four different medications he'd been prescribed.

It was after that incident that he was put into foster care.

A Child Protective Services investigator said his mother had 'painted the victim as a very sick child.'

It is unclear why she was not criminally charged or even arrested as a result.

In February 2019, the boy was returned to her care.

It was only when the police investigation was handed over to a different detective in May this year that it gathered steam.

The Tarrant County Sheriff's Department did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com's inquiries on Monday.

It remains unclear who is now looking after the boy or if his mother is still in custody.