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Arkansas boy recovers from tick bite that sent him to ICU
Last year, a six-year-old Arkansas boy had to be put into a medically induced coma–after a tick bite gave him ehrlichiosis.
At that time, according to his mom:
“He lost all motor skills, all function, he couldn’t speak.” He began to have daily seizures, some of which lasted for hours.
Now, a year later, young Aiden Debusk is doing much better.
Reporter Ashley Godwin of THV-11 News gives this update.
For more:
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/09/24/arkansas-kids-denied-lyme-treatment/
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/03/02/hold-the-press-arkansas-has-lyme/
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/08/02/heartland-virus-in-arkansas/
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/04/11/lyme-in-the-south-4-kids-infected-at-1-camp/
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/05/31/no-lyme-in-the-south-guess-again/
For more on Ehrlichiosis:
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/12/02/everything-thats-known-about-ehrlichiosis/ Pancytopenia (i.e. an abnormally low count for all three types of blood cells) is a hallmark laboratory finding of human ehrlichiosis during the early days of the disease.
- leukopenia (mild or moderate) in 70% of patients (with the most significant decline being in the lymphocyte population) during the first week.
- Anemia in 50% of acute patients
- Low platelet count
- elevated liver transaminases
- The next step towards accurate diagnosis is making blood smears from peripheral blood, cerebrospinal fluid or bone marrow, which are stained with Giemsa or Wright’s stains to detect specific bacterial structures known as morulae.
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/05/04/ehrlichiosis-a-tick-borne-illness-that-can-imitate-blood-related-cancers/
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/02/north-carolina-ehrlichia-often-overlooked-when-tick-borne-illness-suspected/
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/07/24/oklahoma-ehrlichiosis-central/
- https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/10/15/ehrlichiosis-masquerading-as-thrombotic-thrombocytopenia-purpura/
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