Walsall woman left bed-bound after eating goats cheese helped as £23k raised towards treatment

Sam Philpott, aged 22, developed a severe infection after eating a selection of the unpasteurised cheese on holiday in Kos, Greece, three years ago.

Miss Philpott, from Walsall, unknowingly ingested a potentially fatal bacteria called brucellosis.

Just weeks after returning home, the former nursery assistant started to suffer from debilitating migraines, constant vomiting and intense pain all over her body.

Her condition worsened within weeks and she lost the ability to walk, becoming reliant on a wheelchair.

Now she has been left with a list of extreme flu-like symptoms, as well as memory loss, insomnia and speech loss.

She believes it was the eating of the cheese that caused her to ingest the bacteria and develop her current condition.

She was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, a condition that leaves parts of the body extremely sore and stiff.

But her family believe she was misdiagnosed and actually has a severe form of Lyme disease.

A Go Fund Me page has been set up to try and send Miss Philpott to Sponaugle Wellness Institute in America, which has successfully cured many cases of the disease.

The family have been advised she would need to attend the institute for around three months, meaning the cost of treatment, accommodation, flights and living would be £60,000.

So far more than £23,000 has been raised but the family is appealing for more donations.

Miss Philpott, who ate cheese on her pizzas, sandwiches and in her salads on the 2013 holiday, said: "Who knew that unpasteurised cheese, that is delicious and has brought me much momentary happiness, could cause the mind-numbing and wanting-to-end-my-life type of pain that I have been suffering with?

"With each mouthful, to my utter surprise, I was ingesting the bacteria that has led to my being bedridden."

To donate towards the treatment visit www.gofundme.com/28hc6v6g