2024-08-05 03:45:07
In her mother’s hand, six-month-old Neïla takes her bottle. He was bubbling cold, barely disturbed by the three threads sticking out of his bodysuit. They attach electrodes on the infant’s chest to a monitoring monitor (end) which records in real time, twenty-four hours a day, their heart rate and respiratory rate. A sensor, attached to the heel, measures the level of oxygen in the blood.
This Thursday, August 1, mother and son agreed their pain is patience in a room in the pediatric department of the hospital Louis-Mourier, in Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine), establishment of the Auxiliary-Public Hospitals of Paris (AP-HP). “For three weeks, my daughter had severe seizures but no fever. He doesn’t eat anymore, he doesn’t sleep anymore, every day he is empty.said Zineb, who did not want to give him a last name.
At first, neither the attending physician, nor the SAMU, nor the Louis-Mourier emergency department were afraid; only recommended, nasal washes. On July 28, the mother, worried, took her daughter to the emergency room again. “There, Neïla had such a bad cough that we treated her right away. »
Long compulsive bouts of dry cough
A diagnostic test (multiplex PCR) is performed immediately to detect various respiratory infections: flu, bronchiolitis, etc. “In less than two hours, we get a diagnosis of whooping cough”points out Romain Basmaci, head of the pediatric department at Louis-Mourier. Elsewhere, such speed is not always the rule: bacteria disease causing, Bordetella pertussis, has caused such an epidemic, since the beginning of the year in France, that the test circuits have been frozen in the city laboratories, with the results only being delivered after ten to fifteen days.
As soon as the diagnosis was made, Neïla was immediately hospitalized in pediatric care, where she was placed under close and constant supervision. What are you afraid of? Complications linked to coughing are consistent which characterize this infection: long violent attacks of dry cough, until the patient finally catches his breath, in a noisy inspiration causing the crowing of the rooster – hence the name of the disease. “These coughing fits are exhausting and can, in small children, cause severe apnea and respiratory distress, a risk that cannot be prevented”warned Romain Basmaci.
On Thursday, in her mother’s arms, Neïla was suddenly shaken by a violent attack. His head turned to the other side, the alarm sounded in the nurse’s station. On the end screen, the important manipulations are the decaying worlds. Blood oxygen saturation, normally above 95%, drops to 84%; The heart rate, which does not exceed 160 beats per minute in a child at rest, rises to 200. There is a nurse in action, but the chances of the little girl return to normal on their own, gradually. “Neïla has gained weight again today, I hope this is the end of the nightmare”said his mother.
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