Please click on the title of this post for a link to a very important Reader's Digest Article about the "Super Bug" that is becoming alarmingly frequent throughout the country. It is resistant to most known antibiotics and can strike anyone, but children and the elderly are especially vulnerable.
If you have grandchildren, even teen age ones, please send this link to their parents so they can be informed and know the symptoms. You can email the RD article from the RD site.
A good friend and classmate of my 11 year old grandson is extremely ill with this condition. He has been in the hospital for over 3 weeks and has just come off the heart lung bypass machine. He remains in a medically induced coma while they try to build up his strength and get his lungs operative again. They do not know how he contracted this. He did play football and he may have had an injury.
His parents took him to the emergency room three seperate times and the ER sent him home thinking it was the flu. He progressively got worse and as his condition deteriorated, they had to helicopter him to another hospital here in Atlanta that had the heart lung machine to keep him alive.
We are all praying for him and his family.
Poor little guy.
7 comments:
I hope he will pull through, Chancy!
The media has been paying as much attention to this serious ailment as to Brittany's latest romp so at least more people are becoming aware of the symptoms. Add our prayers for your friend's grandson.
Thank you Kenju and Suzz. I will post when we hear any good news about the little guy.
Oh Janet....how heartbreaking. I've read pieces here and there about this bug....it's very scary. I pray that little guy will be okay....it's too painful to even fathom. Thanks sweetie...
It seems that more and more of these little bugs are getting resistant to treatments. I am afraid to go into a hospital to see friends because of these infections. I also hope your grandson's friend gets back to good health!
These superbugs came to be largely because of the misuse and overuse of antibiotics. Sad.. but true. What people can do now is to make sure that when they are prescribed a course of antibiotics.. they take the antibiotics for the entire prescribed time. Stopping the medication early because one feels well leads to the remaining harmful bacteria becoming resistant to the antibiotic. Also important.. hand washing, hand washing, hand washing.
Thanks Chancy for informing us grandmothers about superbug. He'll be much on my mind.
Sarah Boders..Sarahdipidy
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