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INTENSE WARNING TO PARENTS WITH TODDLERS! Doctors Told Parent to Give Sick Tot Nurofen and it Nearly Killed Her! (Video) Warning Graphic
INTENSE WARNING TO PARENTS WITH TODDLERS! Doctors Told Parent to Give Sick Tot Nurofen and it Nearly Killed Her!
Aug 11 2014
Warning, parents, seriously! PLEASE see and definitely SHARE!
A toddler was left fighting for her life after suffering a massive allegic reaction to a child’s dose of Nurofen.
Just hours after two-year-old Macey Marsh was given the medicine as advised by a family GP, her face broke out in hundreds of agonising sores and blisters.
Now, after ten days in intensive care, doctors say it’s “a miracle” she is alive, and even now her eyesight could be permanently damaged.
Yesterday her dad Matt, 37, said: “I wouldn’t wish what happened on us to anybody. The thought of losing her was just unbearable.”
Macey’s ordeal began six weeks ago after her parents took her to the GP because she had a rash and puffy eyes and had complained of feeling poorly.
A locum doctor reassured Matt and wife Sarah the tot was simply ‘run-down’ and said she would be fine after taking the Nurofen painkiller alternated with Calpol.
They gave Macey the medicine and put her to bed, but when Sarah checked on her in the morning her condition was worse and her eyes were completely glued shut with mucus.
Her parents took her to the A&E at St Peter’s Hospital, near their home in Chertsey, Surrey.
Medics diagnosed scarlet fever and sent her away with penicillin. By the next morning, Sarah was shocked to see the tot’s face was completely covered in gruesome blisters. Read more
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Doctors diagnosed a rare reaction to medication or a virus and told her terrified parents she would need a miracle to survive.
But after 10 days in intensive care she pulled through – and the family are now waiting to learn if she has any permanent damage to her eyesight.
Mr Marsh, 37, a photographer, said: ‘It was terrifying and an emotional rollercoaster.
‘There were times when we were unsure if our little girl would pull through at all, let alone with her eyesight intact. Read more
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Girl, 2, given #Nurofen by locum GP could lose her sight after suffering horrific#allergicreaction that left her with sores and blisters all over her face and neck
#MaceyMarsh was prescribed a child’s dose of the drug last month
But within hours, her skin was covered in blisters and eyes full of mucus
#Doctors diagnosed rare allergic reaction – with medication or virus to blame
Called #StevensJohnsonSyndrome, it kills around 40% of those who get it
Macey spent nine days fighting for her life but eventually pulled through
Her family are still waiting to learn if she will suffer permanent sight damage
