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Horrified, Christie rushed the 17-year-old to a nearby ER where she was given oxygen, X-rays and medication before being diagnosed with bronchiolitis obliterans — a health condition better known as ‘popcorn lung’.
It’s an uncommon type of lung disease caused by a build-up of scar tissue in the lungs, which blocks the flow of air.

Recounting the day her daughter started to feel sick, Christie, from Henderson, Nevada, US, said: “[Brianne] went to cheer sick, she had a cough and a sore throat. She was lifting up these kids, tumbling, it’s all very straining.
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