Fairly sad today... This is the first time I'm on the computer in about a week or so.
My 19 month old nephew was taking "Baxtrum" (or Bextrim?) antibiotic, which contains sulfur. He took it for 14 days, all but the very last dose. Turns out he has a rare reaction as a result of the sulfur, which caused a condition called STEVENS-JOHNSON SYNDROME.
He literally burned from the inside out over about 75-80% of his tiny body. All within about 48 hours of finishing the medicine. His skin broke out in red blisters all over (face, neck, back, arms, legs, feet, hands, mouth, genitals: EVERYWHERE). They had to admit him to the hospital, where he (we all) have been since Thursday.
He's in isolation because the blisters have almost all broke (popped), exposing raw bleeding skin- and they (the dr's) are afraid he might catch something or the open skin/legions might get infected causing him even more harm. It's maybe the saddest thing I've ever seen in my entire life.... This 19 month old baby sitting in a bed, bleeding from almost everywhere. They are giving him Morphine for pain as needed, which is roughly every 3 hours. The only treatment they could have offered was Steroids, which they explained would weaken his natural immune system, and with the raw exposed skin, they were extremely worried about this- so they did a procedure they refer to as IVIG... I don't know how to say it, let alone type it... its Immu-Globins or something like that??? Its basically blood protein and antibodies from healthy human blood donors, to help fight off the sulfur in his blood and any infections he may come in contact with.
They are also covering him twice a day in "neosporin" like jelly from head to toe- to act as a "faux" skin to prevent germs/bacteria/etc from contacting his exposed legions and raw skin.... as well as giving him mortrin/tylenol for fever, benedryl for itching, morphine for pain and another antibiotic Clendomycin? to help strengthen his immune system.
For those of you who pray- I ask that you add my nephew to your prayers. For those of you who do not... smoke a cigar and wish him well.
(I'm sure several items are mispelled... Hell I can barely pronounce alot of what I've heard over the last week- let alone spell it correctly)
Tom
My 19 month old nephew was taking "Baxtrum" (or Bextrim?) antibiotic, which contains sulfur. He took it for 14 days, all but the very last dose. Turns out he has a rare reaction as a result of the sulfur, which caused a condition called STEVENS-JOHNSON SYNDROME.
He literally burned from the inside out over about 75-80% of his tiny body. All within about 48 hours of finishing the medicine. His skin broke out in red blisters all over (face, neck, back, arms, legs, feet, hands, mouth, genitals: EVERYWHERE). They had to admit him to the hospital, where he (we all) have been since Thursday.
He's in isolation because the blisters have almost all broke (popped), exposing raw bleeding skin- and they (the dr's) are afraid he might catch something or the open skin/legions might get infected causing him even more harm. It's maybe the saddest thing I've ever seen in my entire life.... This 19 month old baby sitting in a bed, bleeding from almost everywhere. They are giving him Morphine for pain as needed, which is roughly every 3 hours. The only treatment they could have offered was Steroids, which they explained would weaken his natural immune system, and with the raw exposed skin, they were extremely worried about this- so they did a procedure they refer to as IVIG... I don't know how to say it, let alone type it... its Immu-Globins or something like that??? Its basically blood protein and antibodies from healthy human blood donors, to help fight off the sulfur in his blood and any infections he may come in contact with.
They are also covering him twice a day in "neosporin" like jelly from head to toe- to act as a "faux" skin to prevent germs/bacteria/etc from contacting his exposed legions and raw skin.... as well as giving him mortrin/tylenol for fever, benedryl for itching, morphine for pain and another antibiotic Clendomycin? to help strengthen his immune system.
For those of you who pray- I ask that you add my nephew to your prayers. For those of you who do not... smoke a cigar and wish him well.
(I'm sure several items are mispelled... Hell I can barely pronounce alot of what I've heard over the last week- let alone spell it correctly)
Tom
