Beijing, June 4 (IANS) High study pressure took its toll on a nine-year-old girl in China who fell seriously ill, and her family ended up spending over $88,000 on medical expenses.
The girl, a resident of Shandong province, suffered from frequent vomiting since 2008 and was diagnosed as having nerve dysfunction which was caused by high mental stress, said Du Zhongde, a doctor at a hospital in Weifang city.
The girl’s parents, who are well educated and rich, had very high expectations from her. She was sent to the city’s best primary school, where she was forced by her parents to take five specialty training classes including piano and dance, the China Daily quoted the Qilu Evening News as saying Thursday.
The girl hated taking part in any of the specialty training classes, but she had to attend them under pressure from her parents.
Two years back, she complained of insomnia and suffered from vomiting and grumpiness. The symptoms initially appeared once every 20 days. But last year, she started vomiting twice or thrice a day, and sometimes even more than ten times a day.
The family took her to more than ten hospitals in Beijing and Tianjin city before she was finally cured in the Weifang hospital June 1.
