A mother is calling for improvements to be made after her son was wrongly treated for cystic fibrosis for more than seven years.
Doctors told Hazel McCallum that there was a "high likelihood" her toddler son Ryan suffered from the serious genetic disease.
The Dundee boy underwent gruelling treatments for seven-and-a-half years before doctors realised their mistake.
Ryan, who is now 11, has now been left frail and under-developed after the years of treatment, which included him being fed through a tube.
His mother said: "All the medications, the physiotherapy, the feeding overnight, all the stress and the upset that Ryan's gone through, the whole family's gone through, it's just been horrendous.
"We're still fighting a battle every day with Ryan. He's unwell a lot, we're back and forth to the doctor and he's missing a lot of schooling which we're really worried about.
"It's just everything and we've never had a sorry."
She is worried that her son may not be the only child who has been misdiagnosed, and is calling for NHS Tayside to improve their testing procedures for cystic fibrosis.
She said: "They should have made sure that they'd done every test because if it wasn't cystic fibrosis then he's had all this medication for nothing.
"For over seven and a half years now this family's been messed up and it's just so hard.
"We just want an apology, we just want them to stop this now and not do this to any other family."
NHS Tayside say that due to patient confidentiality it's inappropriate for them to comment .
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