My great-grand daugher died, she was a year old. she was treated in an ER of hospital. she was not given any blood work. just Motrin. she was sent home 2 days later she was dead. the results have come back she had a sepsis blood infection. i want to know why no blood work was done on her, why antibiotics are no longer given for sepsis. did they with hold blood work or treatment, because she wasn’t worth saving. did they withhold antibiotics from her because they didn’t want to spend the money on her. why did they make the decision she had to die. sepsis is a bacterial infection of the blood, why aren’t antibiotics given for sepsis any more.
How would they know that it wasn’t a bacterial infection in her blood with out blood work. all they did was give her triple the amount of motrin for a baby her age to bring the fever down. my grandson sent me some pictures after her death, that he had taken after she was discharged from the ER. in the pictures the life had gone out of her eyes, they were pictures of a dying baby. she was asking for help she wanted to live, but that was some thing she was not allowed to do. i am 67 years old i am the one that should have died. babys and children should live. thousands of babies die every year in the US. some thing is very wrong. parents must fight for the lives of their children, they can not speak for themselves.
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Sepsis is a condition in which the body is fighting a severe infection that has been made by the infecting agent; and this might of been causeed by a virus of somekind and antibiotics dosent kill viruses it sometimes makes them worse
Sepsis comes in many forms, bacterial, fungal, viral, etc… The most common type is bacterial, and it is treated with antibiotics. Fungal can be treated with antifungals and some types of viral infections can be treated with antivirals, especially when someone’s life is in danger. I do not think that anyone decided that your great granddaughter should die, or decided to withhold treatment.
Especially with young children, sepsis can blossom and cause death within 24 hours. It is possible that your great granddaughter did not show any signs of sepsis when she was taken into the ER 2 days before her death. Or it is possible that someone missed subtle signs of early sepsis. They may have just assumed she had a common virus and would get better on her own.
In order for you and your family to have peace of mind, get copies of her medical records and have an independent doctor review them.
My sympathies are with you and your family.
I am so, so, sorry to hear that this terrible tragedy happened to your family. A year-old baby is just starting out in her life and she died so early — it is just a tragedy. No other words can describe it.
In answer to your question, antibiotics *Are* given for bacterial infections that could otherwise cause sepsis. It seems that when your great granddaughter was brought into the hospital they assumed that what she had was a virus and didn’t do blood work. This is terribly negligent and whoever was responsible for this should be sued for malpractice. I don’t think that it was deliberate or that anyone didn’t think that your baby was worth saving; I think it was just stupidity and negligence that caused the problem.
Again, I am so sorry to hear of your loss.