CNN-Pfc. Jessica Lynch Moved Into Intestive Care (Monitoring Infection and Fever)

Cable News Network ^ | April 6, 2003 12:46 PM | staff writer

[ewing]

She's been through much worse..

[sirchtruth]

Please, just let this remain a "precaution."

[Fitzcarraldo]

Prayers...an Iraqi hospital in the control of Sadaam's thugs would be just the place for bioweapon experimentation.
Hopefully Jessica had been adminstered all of the necessary inoculations before leaving for the Gulf.

[OneVike]

Hang in there Pvt. The heart of America beats in your chest, and the gratefull Iraq's have only love for you.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

Lynch

[cake_crumb]

Praying she pulls through this.

[Jim Noble]

I hope it's not smallpox.

[2Jedismom]

She was vaccinated, wasn't she?

[Jim Noble]

she was vaccinated, wasn't she?.

Almost certainly.

[The Westerner]

I'm not a doctor, but the fact that she was still being fed intravenously indicated to me that infection was present or feared. She's been through so much surgery in the last few days, and then the excitement of seeing her family, it might have tipped the scales backward in terms of healing.

Hoping for the best...

[OneVike]

All of our soldiers have been given shots to prevent anything you could possibly think of, including some things you don't realise even exists. When I was in I had over 20 shots over a period of 3 months to protect me from things I never heard of. That was only to get sent to Germany. Imagine what the Millitary protects them from over in "Chemical Iraq"

[Razwan]

I have been inside of Iraq's Walter Reed equivalent(UNSCOM), probably about '97.

Conditions were so absolutely filthy that the physicians with us went after the Iraqi doctors for poor sanitation, instead of inspecting....first thing you saw was the lobby, with all those little gauze pads you get after giving blood, with blood on them, all over the place, floor was filthy, vials of blood in the ashtray, and it got worse from there

I wouldnt let my dog get her toenails clipped there, infection would be a high probability

[2Jedismom]

I saw "an Iraqi hospital" on the news the other day and they showed a trashcan overflowing with old blood bags, there were flies EVERYWHERE.

Yes, I suspect she's got some nasty infections.

[Gamecock]

Chances are it is an infection related to her gunshot wounds and any other open wounds. Antibiotics should knock that out.

Second scenario is a case of post-operative pneumonia related to her not breathing deeply or moving about.

Antibiotics and good pulmonary toilet should resolve that.

In epidemiology there is a saying "If you hear hoofs, think of horses and before zebras. In other words, I would treat her for for the obvious (surgical infection, GSW) before the bizzare (bio weapons), but would keep my eyes wide open for signs of the bizzare.

I am sure we gave her the full round of vaccinations before she deployed.

[The Other Harry]

They'll take good care of PFC Lynch. The best.

[Nachum]

May God grant her a complete healing.

[OneVike]

One of the reasons she was put on intravenously fed food was because she had not been fed for almost 8 days. The worst thing you can do after that is eat solid food, your system cannot handle the sudden impact of having the bowles overwelmed with solids. After her stomach and bowles start working properly they will start her on soft foods, and gradually give hard more solid food, but untill then it's going to be food via her veins.

On an episode of Survivor, Cody from the Australia competition was given steak beans and other hard foods to eat for a challenge he won. After rice and water, he said the food gave him diaria, and made him sick. Similar to what would happen to Jessica if they fed her. She needs her strength to heal, not to fight off diaria and stomach cramps.

[ErnBatavia]

I saw "an Iraqi hospital" on the news the other day and they showed a trashcan overflowing with old blood bags, there were flies EVERYWHERE.

That description fits what I saw once while visiting a patient at the Kaiser hospital in Los Angeles.

[The Other Harry]

Not mentioned whether her family did visit her in the ICU ward when they came.

I read somewhere else where they have visited her twice so far. Presumably briefly each time.

But, you never know know how accurate these stories are.

[ewing]

She's got to hold on, she is become a symbol of grit and determination in the face of danger (plus being on the cover of People Magazine a major morale boost to the troops)