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Dad's case of strep throat leads to amputations
Who knew the Strep A virus could get in your blood stream and become life-threatening? I never knew, until a month ago when it happened to my 6 year old daughter. It caused a blood clot in her leg and she started to go into septic shock. Thankfully when she started to go into septic shock she was in York Hospital and in the process of being transported to Children's Hospital in Philadelphia because of the blood clot. They had to fly her there via helicopter and she spent two day in intensive care and another 5 days in a regular hospital room. We were very lucky, as once she is done with the blood thinning medication in two months, she will be 100% back to normal. I saw a study that said of the approximately 1,000 people every year in the US that have this, 60% do not survive.
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Oh my goodness, you must have been beside yourself with worry.
My prayers that your daughter enjoys a most speedy recovery!
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Goose wrote:
Oh my goodness, you must have been beside yourself with worry.
My prayers that your daughter enjoys a most speedy recovery!
I echo Goose's sentiments !
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Yikes, Brady! There's all kinds of rare viruses and bacteria floating around out there and it's good you took a proactive approach. Glad it worked out and your daughter is on the road to recovery.
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When penicillin was introduced, it was like a miracle. We all thought that the war against the microbe was won.
Unfortunately, nature is both resilient and cruel, and the bugs evolved. It's become an arms race of sorts to develop new antibiotics as organisms become resistant to existing drugs.
Thank God for the dedicated doctors and nurses who care for us, and for the researchers at the NIH and universities all across the nation developing future treatments.
Give that little girl a big hug.
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From our understanding, it isn't even a different version of the Strep A virus, it is the exact same version that millions of people get every year that leads to a sore throat and fever. It is just that in some rare cases, it gets into the blood stream and causes septic shock. She had no sore throat symptoms whatsoever.
To treat the virus, it was treated the same way they would treat everyone else with the Strep virus, with amoxicillin (which is a form of penicillin). Luckily, she was already in the hospital when she started to go into septic shock and then they were able to diagnose her right away.
The doctors and nurses at CHOP (affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania) were amazing and knew what to do right away
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Re: Dad's case of strep throat leads to amputations
Just reading this. I'm thankful that your daughter is going to be ok and really thankful that CHOP was there for you and your family.
Amoxicillin is an amazing drug. Beautiful in it's simplicity.
Life is fragile and as a dad myself I always wonder what completely unexpected and unpredictable thing could come down the pike and knock me to my knees.
Again, just really happy she'll be ok.
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Do you know how Strep A virus gets into the blood stream?
You were at the right place at the right time. Thank goodness that the docs pick up on the problem quickly and started the proper medication.
Well wishes to your daughter Brady!
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