2024-08-05 03:45:11
Six-month-old Neïla holds her bottle in her mother’s arms. A gentle lather, barely disturbed by the three strands protruding from her bodice. They connected electrodes on the baby’s chest to a monitoring monitor (” scope”) instantly records a person’s heart rate and respiratory rate twenty-four hours a day. Sensors attached to the heels measure the oxygen levels in the blood.
This Thursday, August 1, mother and son together their pain tolerance In a room in the pediatric department of the Louis-Mourier Hospital in Cologne (Hautes-Seine), an institution of the Aided Public Hospital of Paris (AP-HP). “For three weeks, my daughter had a bad cough but no fever. She stopped eating, stopped sleeping, and was losing weight day by day.” said Zineb, who did not want to give her last name.
August 1, 2024, in the pediatric corridor of the Louis-Mourier Hospital in Colombes, Hautes-Seine. Offices of the Louis-Mourier Hospital in Cologne.
At first, the attending physicians, SAMU and the Louis-Mourier Emergency Room were not alarmed. The only recommendation is nasal washing. On July 28, the mother was so worried that she took her daughter to the emergency room again. “There, Nela developed a cough so bad that she was immediately taken care of. »
Prolonged compulsive dry cough
Get a diagnostic test (“multiplex PCR”) now to look for many respiratory infections: influenza, bronchiolitis, etc. “In less than two hours we received the diagnosis of whooping cough””, said Romain Basmici, Director of Pediatrics at Louis-Mourier. Elsewhere, such speeds aren’t always the rule: Bacteria thereby causing disease, Bordetella pertussis, The epidemic has been so widespread in France since the beginning of the year that testing lines at city laboratories have been clogged, with results only available after ten to fifteen days.
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After the diagnosis, Nela was immediately taken to a pediatric hospital and received close and continuous monitoring. A scary risk? Complications associated with coughing attacks are characteristic of this infection: a prolonged, forced dry cough, until the patient finally catches his breath with a loud breathing sound reminiscent of a rooster’s crow – hence the disease’s name. “These coughs are exhausting and, in young children, can lead to severe apnea and respiratory distress, which is an unpreventable risk.””, warns Roman Basmachi.
On Thursday, Nella suddenly started shaking violently in her mother’s arms. His head turned red and an alarm went off at the nurse’s station. On the oscilloscope screen, the vital parameter curve deteriorates. Blood oxygen saturation is usually above 95% and drops to 84%; the baby’s heart rate will not exceed 160 beats per minute at rest, but will rise to 200 beats. ” Neïla is fat again today, I hope this is the end of the nightmare », said his mother.
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