article_snippet: A desperate mother has to watch in horror as A desperate mother daughter becomes paralysed every other day.
article_snippet: Sarah Firth, 39, watches while her daughter is unable to move a single bone in her daughter body for up to 19 hours at a time.
article_snippet: In this state Ms Firth's daughter, Mia Park, can only cry out for help and wait until drugs help her daughter regain movement.
article_snippet: her daughter goes from being an energetic youngster to being trapped in a body that can't move. '
article_snippet: Sarah Firth, 39, has to watch helplessly as her daughter daughter, Mia Park, 12, becomes paralysed every other day to a rare genetic condition .
article_snippet: her daughter has hypokalemic periodic paralysis which means her daughter has periods where her daughter can't move her daughter body and has to be rushed to hospital (pictured)
article_snippet: Mia, who is just 12, suffered her daughter first petrifying episode of paralysis in January this year.
article_snippet: My ex-husband, Mia's dad, and Mia grandad, also suffered from a condition that intermittently left My ex-husband, Mia's dad, and her grandad paralysed.'
highlights_snippet: Mia Park, 12, has a genetic disorder called hypokalemic periodic paralysis .
  
highlights_snippet: Causes muscle weakness and she becomes paralysed every other day .
  
highlights_snippet: and she wakes completely paralysed .
  