The article doesn’t mention whether or not she got a flu shot this year.
A kid got sick and died. Sad for sure, but not sure why it’s newsworthy. Approximately 200 kids age 5-9 die every day on the US. I can’t figure out why this is any different from the rest of them. The other families are just as upset etc.
Never had a flu shot but 8 years old is far-far behind me.
Still hard to tell what happened to her, how it happened.
If it was the flu then the headline is a lie.
On a lighter note, the mom also said that being the subject of a story on the radio would have made her daughter very happy: “She would have loved this. I’m not even kidding. She wanted to be famous so bad.
AYFKM?
::shakes head:: How sad. How sad....
Sad. RIP.
The majority of the population is low in blood levels of vitamin D. Best way to avoid complications from flu is to keep one’s blood levels of vitamin D up. It is criminal that this blood test is not standard for every single person on an annual basis. And vitamin D has the added benefit of anti-cancer effects.
The flu shot is ineffective, and is known to make one more susceptible to non-flu illnesses.
https://www.drbrownstein.com/the-truth-about-the-flu-vaccine/
https://www.drbrownstein.com/26005-2/
I’ve personally taken IV therapy for serious illness and can attest to its effectiveness.
This is EXACTLY what I frequently post about when it comes to the Flu. Lived it.
Except in our case there was no Tamiflu or flu test. So the death was much quicker. Less than 4 days.
So even with the many advents of medicine since that time...it still can kill swiftly
If I’m someday lucky enough to ask God a question it will be “why do you allow children to suffer”.Of course He will give an answer that makes perfect sense...an answer that never occurred to me while I was on this Earth.
Not sure If this is applicable but a child we knew died after whatever he had turned into pneumonia. He had been to the doctor many times over the final couple weeks and the doctors all missed the pneumonia using stethoscopes. He never had a chest x-ray.
This happened to a friend of mine. It wasn’t the flu (I think), just one of those random nasty bugs that can blindside you. The daughter, about five, came down with what seemed to be a cold. A day or two later, her temperature got to “go see a doctor” range. The diagnosis was still a bad cold and she went home with standard palliatives. She got dramatically worse overnight, was hospitalized the next day, and died a day or two later. The docs could do nothing. My understanding is that an earlier diagnosis wouldn’t have made a difference, but even if that was a theoretical possibility, we do not and should not do a DefCon 5, critical care workup on every kid who comes down with the sniffles. It all happened very fast, and it wasn’t ignored. There are some bad bugs out there. A neighbor lady got pecked by her parrot, lost a couple of fingers and was lucky not to lose her hand and and maybe more. Years ago, an acquaintance died of an uncontrollable infection that started from a minor scratch. Every one of us is probably inches away right now from something that could kill us if it got in.
typical “local news” story - emotional, fear-mongering, mostly fact-free
Was it the flu? Was it something else? They don’t bother to tell us - only that the child wanted to be “a star.”
As a mom, letting your child travel on a soccer team 3 or 4 days a week seems excessive
Her little system needed rest, bless her heart