{"id":10939,"date":"2025-08-20T06:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/10939\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T06:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:16:11","slug":"ni-mums-on-raising-children-with-rare-genetic-condition-pku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/10939\/","title":{"rendered":"NI mums on raising children with rare genetic condition\u00a0PKU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Two NI mums tell of the challenges of caring for children who have the protein-processing metabolic disorder, writes Jade Beecroft\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Courtney Timlin and Rebecca McFaull are speaking out to raise awareness of the condition\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3cfb5aa4-b16a-481e-97f8-6d143baa9146.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Courtney Timlin and Rebecca McFaull are speaking out to raise awareness of the condition<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When Tyrone mum Courtney Timlin found out her baby son has a rare condition affecting his ability to process protein, her first question was \u201cwill he ever be able to eat a McDonald\u2019s?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Charlie Johnston was born with phenylketonuria (PKU), meaning his body cannot break down an amino acid called phenylalanine, which comes from eating protein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two NI mums tell of the challenges of caring for children who have the protein-processing metabolic disorder, writes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[10585,18,458,19,17,10586,10584,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-10939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-down-news","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-genetics","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-mcdonalds","14":"tag-royal-victoria-hospital","15":"tag-science"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}