> felt weak all the time, lacking all the energy to run and play sports like his friends
> Besides relentless fatigue, other common symptoms appear to include severe headaches and stomach cramps.
> plagued with an irritable bowel
> “I would go more than a week without a bowel movement while ‘hungry’, and feel nausea if I ate anything other than my ‘cure food’,”
I don't know what's going on, but dismissing it as delusion seems unhelpful, unkind, and untrue.
Doesn't make it any more true.
Now, if someone believes "wifi hotspots give me headaches", that's untrue. They only get headaches when they believe there's a hotspot nearby. This has been demonstrated in general, and it should be easy to demonstrate to any individual sufferer. After that demonstration, if someone continues to believe that wifi hotspots give them headaches, then it may be reasonable to call them delusional. But that doesn't make their symptoms go away.
What specific belief do you think vampires have, that you think has been demonstrated untrue?