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"I don't understand. But I don't care, so it works out."
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Originally Posted by fluffythewondercat
Then you haven't been paying attention to pediatric flu deaths. Often kills the same day symptoms appear.
I have been, actually. It just seems to me that flu presents as flu, and then in a day or two the child dies.
Maybe, though.
She didn't seem to have flu symptoms, from what I'm reading.
I knew a 4 year old who died of flu, but that was maybe 3 days into having it.
It seems like in those cases, often a parent takes a child to the doctor, the doc say oh it's the flu and the child dies within a couple days. They don't complain of cold hands and tingly extremities and then die.
Her hands were cold, and her limbs were tingling, apparently.
Sounds like it might be an undiagnosed heart condition. It's hard to believe a cold or flu like illness could take her from well to deceased in a matter of hours.
I'm not suggesting this is what happened because I obviously have no idea, but respiratory infections like a cold or the flu can indeed attack the heart and cause damage quickly. My daughter developed myocarditis as a result of a cold two years ago. This is a kid who had never had anything other than occasional colds and the flu one time (seven years prior). She spent a week in the ICU and has had follow-ups with a cardiologist regularly. Thankfully, she seems to have fully recovered; she'll have another cardiac MRI this summer and then as long as that is clear, she will need to see a cardiologist every year or two for the rest of her life for periodic checkups, assuming nothing changes. She's also now considered one of those "high risk" people and has to have a flu shot each year and it's encouraged that her household members also have the vaccine to help protect her.
If the urgent care doctor we went to (thinking the issue was bronchitis) hadn't called 911 and instead diagnosed her with bronchitis/pneumonia/whatever, my blood runs cold to think about what might have happened. Things can go south extremely quickly and totally randomly. It's very rare, but it happens.
Most likely causes of quick death all have to do with rapidly failing circulation- internal bleeding (no report of recent, acute injury; bleeding ulcers unlikely in a 13 y/o), cardiac dysrhythmia (maybe intermittent & recurring- would account for complaints of lite-headedness or nausea) or toxic shock (maybe likely in a young girl less experienced with the intricacies & subtleties of female hygiene? or to a rapid onset UTI, fer instance).
Difficult to say without more info-- everything is rare in a 13 y/o kid-- they're not supposed to get sick at all. Sad.
Toxic shock is one thing that came to my mind, she is about the right age for that.
Doesn't sound like the flu, but then again we don't really know what all she was feeling. Whatever it was, that's tragic. It's crazy how life can suddenly be cut so short.
Definitely a tragedy. They said 8 to 10 weeks for the coroner's report. I hope the family can get some closure once they get some answers about what exactly happened. It obviously won't take away the grief but just that feeling of not even understanding what happened has to be so hard
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