A MUM from Far Forest is hoping to raise awareness of a condition that means her 14-year-old daughter faints when she stands up.

Faith Morris was forced to take months off school after she fainted at a parents’ evening at Lacon Childe School in Cleobury Mortimer last year - and never fully recovered.

Mum Lakami Seaman said: "I turned around and Faith had gone all funny - she felt really hot and faint and it just never got any better.

"She didn't go back to school until September and now she's only doing an hour a day. If she's standing, sitting up or travelling in the car, she faints.”

Faith’s condition has since been diagnosed as Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (PoTs), which means gravity causes blood to pool in her feet when she stands – leading to heart palpitations, dizziness and fainting.

“She was admitted to hospital in June to find out what's wrong,” said Lakami. “The paediatrician didn’t know what it was and neither did any of the nurses.

“Luckily the cardiologist had heard of PoTS. Without her we’d be completely clueless.”

Faith relies on a wheelchair to get around, but has recently started attending school again for an hour a day.

Her dance teacher, Zennor McGuire, held a fundraising show in December to raise money for charity PoTS UK, and Faith’s family is hoping to raise awareness to prevent youngsters with the condition from being misdiagnosed.

Lakami added: “We’ve done a lot of research since Faith was diagnosed and PoTs is a fairly newly-recognised disease, so a lot of teenage girls get diagnosed with anxiety because some of the symptoms, like dizziness and increased heartrate, are similar.

“Hopefully Faith’s story will raise a bit of awareness of some of the symptoms.”

For more information on PoTS, visit potsuk.org.