Posted on 10/12/2009 3:52:30 PM PDT by RDTF
Parents of Woodbrook Elementary students have been alerted that a child had died from complications in the hospital. Nine-year-old Carson Raymond was in the third grade.
Raymond began feeling sick a week ago and his family suspected the H1N1 virus. He lost his battle with the flu Saturday at the University of Virginia Medical Center.
Raymond had a pre-existing condition that made him susceptible to the flu. He was hospitalized more than two years ago from Influenza B, the most common flu strand.
His family says the doctors at UVA worked tirelessly to try and save Raymond. They say the young boy loved baseball and had a great sense of humor.
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He died from swine flue. No wait, we lied AGAIN - he had a pre-existing condition.
Prayers for the boy and his family.
Do we use oxygen membranes here in US?
think maybe he’d still be alive if he had not contracted this strain of the flu? maybe??
I don't know. What I would like to know is if there is anything an individual could/should do to increase their own blood oxygen under these circumstances.
Tragedy, but has nothing to do with swine flue. If you have a compromised immune system, any infection, bacterial, viral, or fungal can overwhelm you and kill you. But if you’re a healthy individual, and treat you symptoms properly, you’ll be fine. This is a state-run media inspired crisis, and bears no truth.
this is a very debilitating flu strain. I know a healthy, athletic 17 year old young man with it and he literally does not have the strength to move. He had the flu like anyone else over the years and never ever was like this.
this stuff scares me as a dad to many younguns..
I think an oxygen membrane is like a dialysis machine. It is used to take up the slack when the organ doesnt work. I dont think that anything you can do now will help if your lungs are unable to pass oxygen to your bloodstream.
What is his preexisting condition. There is nothing here about a compromised immune system. I think he proably had ASTHMA like half the kids in this country.
There is no mention in the article confirming the boy nor anyone else at the school contracted swine flu.
Is this a treatment that’s readily available in most hospitals?
I’m very sorry to hear of this.
Think I’m gonna go hug my third-grader.
“maybe he’d still be alive if he had not contracted this strain of the flu? maybe??”
Maybe. My doc says I’m suffering through H1N1 as I type to you (no reason to doubt him). Am I gonna’ die from it? Maybe.
No sense rushing the inevitable though. I’ll probably just stay home for a few days and catch up on some paperwork instead. No doubt I’m much better at that task.
Honestly, H1N1 is no worse than seasonal flu, and from my experience, fairly mild (and I live at 7,500 feet MSL. If you don’t hear from me again you’ll know that I was wrong. ;-)
That’s what I’ve imagined when they state the kids have pre-existing conditions. When my son was young he had asthma, and every cold or virus was a “crisis.”
As to healthy immune system, this type of flu is thought to cause a cytokine storm, which can be more deadly in those with strong immune response than in those with a weakened immune response.
My nephew had a confirmed case of H1N1, but it was rather mild. He was put on Tamiflu and was back in school in a few days.
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