by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D., Childrens Health Defense:
Lyla was admitted to the emergency room of Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock on Feb. 28 due to breathing difficulty. Two days earlier at the same hospital, a 6-year-old girl who also had pneumonia following a measles infection died. The deceased child did not receive any breathing treatment before her death.
A 4-year-old West Texas girl who developed secondary pneumonia following a measles infection spent over four days in a hospital before she was given budesonide, a steroid used to relieve inflammation affecting the airways.
Budesonide is one of the treatments Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promoted during the Texas measles outbreak, according to The Hill.
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Lyla was admitted to the emergency room of Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock on Feb. 28 due to breathing difficulty.
Two days earlier at the same hospital, a 6-year-old girl who also had pneumonia following a measles infection died. The deceased child did not receive budesonide or any similar breathing treatment before her death. The hospital also administered the wrong antibiotic for the 6-year-old’s community-acquired pneumonia, according to experts who reviewed the medical records.
According to Lyla’s mother, MaryAnn, budesonide helped Lyla make a strong and fast turnaround from her illness. Within hours of receiving the treatment, Lyla was “starting to walk around. She’s eating, she’s talking, she’s acting more and more like herself, and we’re just like, ‘whoa,’” MaryAnn said.
Within 36 hours of Lyla’s first budesonide treatment on March 3 in Covenant Children’s Hospital’s intensive care unit (ICU), she was released straight to home.
‘She’s too bad. I think you need to go to the ER’
In an interview with The Defender, MaryAnn and her husband, Henry, shared their experiences in the days leading up to Lyla’s successful treatment with budesonide.
The couple said they were vaccinated against measles as children. But they chose not to vaccinate their kids because they knew several people who were injured by childhood vaccines.
“We have 12 children alone in this community here amongst Mennonites that are autistic because of the vaccines,” MaryAnn said. “They were totally normal babies.”
Lyla is the youngest of MaryAnn and Henry’s four children. All four broke out with the measles rash within days of each other, MaryAnn said.
MaryAnn gave them natural products to support their recovery. “We have a health food store here in town called Health-2-U,” she said, “so I was using all their natural products. It was working great on all my kids.”
MaryAnn, who broke out with what she called a “lighter version” of measles even though she was vaccinated, said, “My son Brandon … fought it so good. He pretty much just slept it off.”
She continued:
“Then the most interesting thing happened. My daughter, Lyla, was totally free from the measles, feeling better. She all of a sudden starts having some respiratory issues.
“I started noticing she wasn’t breathing as well, but she was breathing very heavy on her chest and her fever was coming back. And I was like, that’s weird. We’re over the measles now. Why is this happening?”
MaryAnn and Henry decided to take Lyla to a doctor. On Feb. 28, they drove Lyla to a clinic 30 minutes away, just across the New Mexico state line. The clinic staff “tested her oxygen and it was at 85%,” MaryAnn said.
A normal blood oxygen level is between 95%-100% for most people, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
The clinic’s nurse practitioner, who assessed Lyla, said she didn’t feel comfortable treating Lyla at the clinic with an IV. “I don’t think it’ll do enough. She’s too bad. I think you need to go to the ER,” she said.
The nurse practitioner told MaryAnn and Henry to take Lyla to a nearby hospital in New Mexico, which they did.
Hospital staff deny request for food and water
When they arrived at the hospital, only Henry went inside with Lyla. MaryAnn stayed in the car out of concern that her light measles rash might negatively affect the treatment they would receive.
Inside, the hospital staff hooked Lyla up to oxygen and questioned Henry about her medical history and situation.
Over the next nine hours of Lyla’s stay there, Henry and MaryAnne grew unhappy with the treatment they and Lyla received.
For instance, Henry told of an unfortunate exchange he had with the head nurse when he explained that Lyla was having breathing difficulty following a measles infection. “I got about halfway through when she interrupted and said, ‘Are you a doctor?’ in a rather condescending way.”
Henry said, “No, ma’am, I’m not.”
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