article_snippet: A mother has not eaten a meal for seven years due to a rare condition which left A mother stomach paralysed.
article_snippet: Nicola Nichols has not been able to keep any food or drink down since and vomited up to 50 times every day.
article_snippet: Initially doctors believed Nicola Nichols had an eating disorder, before finally diagnosing Nicola Nichols with gastroparesis.
article_snippet: Nicola Nichols, 25, has to be fed through a tube directly into Nicola Nichols bloodstream (left) as Nicola Nichols was diagnosed has a rare condition meaning Nicola Nichols stomach muscles are paralysed in 2008 (right)
article_snippet: Mrs Nichols unable to eat anything at Mrs Nichols wedding to IT worker Ben, 27, and has been told Mrs Nichols will never eat again.
article_snippet: her weight plummeted from nine stone to just seven and her attempts to regain weight by eating food caused her to regurgitate anything her consumed.
article_snippet: Mrs Nichols problems began when Mrs Nichols was 18.
article_snippet: Mrs Nichols stomach stopped working after a bout of flu two years earlier, leaving Mrs Nichols unable to keep any food or liquid down.
article_snippet: Mrs Nichols would vomit up to 50 times a day, but doctors suspected Mrs Nichols had an eating disorder.
article_snippet: Finally, in 2008 Mrs Nichols was diagnosed with gastroparesis, a condition in which there is a problem with nerves or stomach muscles, meaning it does not empty it of food properly.
article_snippet: But the emergency measure failed and Mrs Nichols suffered intestinal failure, where Mrs Nichols bowel could not digest the foods and absorb the fluids necessary for Mrs Nichols to live.
article_snippet: Mrs Nichols was struck down with mild flu in 2008, and after this vomited up to 50 times a day.
article_snippet: Mrs Nichols was unable to eat any of the food on Mrs Nichols wedding day to partner Ben, an IT worker .
article_snippet: The illness has left Mrs Nichols wheelchair-bound and Mrs Nichols has had to watch Mrs Nichols hair fall out, something Mrs Nichols has found very difficult.
article_snippet: Mrs Nichols knows Mrs Nichols will never eat 'real food' again, and Mrs Nichols weight dropped from 9st to 7st . '
highlights_snippet: Afterwards Nicola Nichols started vomiting 50 times a day and couldn't eat or drink .
  
highlights_snippet: Nicola Nichols was diagnosed with gastroparesis; paralysis of the stomach muscles .
  
highlights_snippet: Nicola Nichols intestines failed and Nicola Nichols now has to be fed through a tube to Nicola Nichols blood .
  