A kiss that killed the little Kiara? Baby dies after Herpes infection
Infection with Herpes viruses cost the small Kiara’s life. The tragic case is not the first of its kind. Nevertheless, many don’t know how dangerous an infection for babies can be. Now, Kiara’s parents don’t warn, so that other families will suffer the same fate.
Kelly Ineson and Thomas Cummins, were only able to spend 14 days with her newborn daughter Kiara. Then the girl died. Probably someone had kissed the child, and it infected with a Herpes Virus. For the Baby, the infection ended fatally.
The immune system of newborns must first learn, and pathogens, repel. A seemingly harmless infection can therefore be dangerous for you. In adults, Herpes causes fever blisters in the newborn can lead to serious illness. Because of the hardly knows someone, warn concerned parents about the Internet of the danger, so now also the parents of Kiara.
"I would have never imagined in my worst nightmares, a kiss my Baby kill könnte", Kelly Ineson says according to the Irish news site "thesun.ie".
Ineson and her fiance had been particularly careful, when Strangers had approached to your child, or someone wanted to touch with unwashed hands the little girl. In spite of all precautions, they could not prevent the infection but. A Herpes infection can be transmitted either through a kiss or a natural birth, if the mother suffers from genital herpes.
"Knew you würde" not survive;
Kiara came up with a emergency C-section. Ten days after the birth, a midwife noted during a routine examination that the girl had questionable lost a lot of weight. She came again to the hospital. There, Kiara’s condition worsened, according to "thesun.ie". Also her Oxygen levels dropped and her kidneys no longer worked.
Mother Kelly was expecting the Worst. She remembers all of the Doctors that ran through the room. The 30-Year-old collapsed. "I think, deep down, I knew that you würde" not survive;, she says later.
Your fear should come true: at The age of only 14 days, Kiara died. The Herpes Virus had led to blood poisoning. The Virus had probably attacked her brain.
The last hours of his life, the little girl spent in an artificial coma. The family came to say good-bye. While the life-support machines were switched off, were the parents of Kiara’s side.
"She died on 13. August, at 18:32 – the worst Moment of my Lebens", says her mother.
Herpes for infants dangerous
"In infants in the first three months of life is not developed the immune system. As a result, the infection, life-threatening complications and permanent damage verursachen" can;, children’s doctor, Hermann-Josef Kahl explained to the Pharmaceutical newspaper.
Threat Herpes can be a virus for cancer patients during chemotherapy or people with HIV, their immune system is also weaker than that of healthy people. Because the body’s defenses keep the Virus enough in chess, it can spread to the organs.
