She was unable to walk
A mum has shared Strep A warning signs after her daughter fell victim to the infection – leaving her hospitalised and unable to walk. Kadie Dolphin, 37, first noticed symptoms of the infection on November 8 and just hours later her daughter was in hospital.
“I was absolutely petrified to be honest - at the point where she started to turn really bad, we didn’t know what it was and it felt like it took forever to find out what was wrong. The doctor was saying that the swelling was coming up before her eyes, [Nancie Rae] was swelling right before us, the doctor said we really are concerned and it was then that I thought ‘oh god’.
Her daughter had come downstairs at 6pm complaining of an itchy belly – and when Kadie looked, she noticed there was a small mark resembling a mosquito bite on her tummy and her knee. She gave her daughter an anti-histamine and thought nothing more of it, until Nancie Rae came downstairs the following morning at 6am with a high temperature and a rash where the ‘bites’ had been.
Kadie tried to get a GP appointment but was told nothing would be available until 6pm that day – and by 9.30am, Nancie Rae’s hand had begun to swell up. Deciding not to wait, Kadie took her daughter to Halton Urgent Care centre and within five minutes of arriving the pair had been placed in a room and seen by a doctor.
“We went to Warrington Hospital and they started her on Amoxycillin, they had to take 11 vials of blood from her. She had lost the ability to walk, every joint was swollen up, she was completely red and still had a high temperature – that was when they took a throat swab for Strep A. Doctors continued to monitor her condition, as Kadie and her daughter remained in the hospital for two days. Thankfully, after 48 hours, Nancie Rae’s condition began to improve as the swelling reduced and she was sent home with antibiotics.
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