Day 13: Meet Izzy: (from Izzys mom) Izzy was born a healthy - TopicsExpress

Day 13: Meet Izzy: (from Izzys mom) Izzy was born a healthy beautiful little girl who was always happy and very fun loving. She was 18 months old at the time and I took her to get her immunizations up-to- date. Everything seemed fine, but 2 days later Izzy’s eyes started to look swollen and red spots started to appear, so I took her to our local doctor who diagnosed foot and mouth and conjunctivitis. It got much worse so I raced her to the ER and by the end of the day she was admitted onto an empty wing in case whatever she had might be contagious. At 11.00pm the doctor phoned our room from his home. He had been researching all day and informed us that Izzy was having a severe allergic reaction to her vaccination, which was causing Stevens-Johnson Syndrome. He just kept saying how sorry he was. I had never heard of SJS so I got onto my iPad and looked it up. As soon as I saw the mortality rate, I turned it off. Stevens-Johnson Syndrome is a rare, serious disorder in which one’s skin and mucous membranes react severely to a medication or infection. SJS is most often from medicine containing Ibuprofen such as Nurofen, or from sulphur-based treatments, from many antibiotics, or from anti-seizure medicine, and more rarely from vaccinations as in Izzy’s case, whose reaction was to the DTaP vaccine. What is unnerving is that one can have these medications for years without any problems and then for some unknown reason one’s body will react in this way due to having been hyper-sensitized, this irrespective of one’s age. SJS often begins with flu-like symptoms, followed by a painful red or purplish rash that spreads and blisters, eventually causing the top layer of one’s skin to die and shed. My daughter was basically burning from the inside out and her skin came off. She had to be intubated and placed in an induced coma to ensure her esophagus didn’t close up. Izzy spent the next two weeks in the ICU while they worked on saving her life. One night they called and told me to come straight in as they didn’t think she would make it through the night. I have never felt so sick with fear. I stayed by her side, pleading to the heavens to let her live. Izzy has sustained irreversible scarring to the corneas and is now blind and can only see high-contrast color and movement. She wears protective glasses 24/7 so as not to damage her eyes.

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