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DENVER – Hospitals across the Denver metro area are on alert for a mystery respiratory illness that can leave children and teenagers with asthma debilitated.
Doctors told 7NEWS they believe the illness is linked to human enterovirus 68, which is related to rhinovirus, which is a cause of the common cold.
Patients often complain of a rapid onset of cold-like symptoms and then suddenly are unable to breathe.
“My head started hurting and after that my lungs started sort of closing up. It felt different,” said 13-year-old Will Cornejo, of Lone Tree.
“He was in really bad shape. He came really close to death. He was unconscious at our house and white as a ghost with blue lips — he just passed out,” said Will’s mother, Jennifer Cornejo.
Up to 250 children a day since Wednesday.
We have five kids in the intensive care unit which is a much higher number than we would see at the end of August, early September,” Dr. Raju Meyappan said.
One of those children is 13-year-old Will Cornejo.
Last weekend, Will came down with a manageable cold. Tuesday night, he woke up to an asthma attack. Three doses of the asthma medicine albuterol did not help him.
“It was like nothing we’ve ever seen,” mother Jennifer Cornejo said. “He was unresponsive. He was laying on the couch. He couldn’t speak to me. He was turning white and his lips turned blue.”
Only Local News reporting no CDC are they afraid of panic and if Doctors are confused and this is so rare are we seeing
Local
Health
Alert:
Respiratory Illnesses
Due to Enterovirus D68 (EV68
http://health.mo.gov/emergencies/ert/alertsadvisories/pdf/HA82914.pdf
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – University of South Alabama Children’s & Women’s Hospital, as well as pediatric hospitals nationwide, are seeing high volumes of children with respiratory illness causing symptoms ranging from the common cold to wheezing and severe respiratory distress.
http://fox10tv.com/2014/08/29/31025/
Hospital Warns of Respiratory Illness in Children
School has been in session for three weeks in Mobile County and some students have already ended up at the USA’s Children’s and Women’s Hospital. They’ve been diagnosed with a virus associated with the common cold. It’s called the enterovirus.
The virus has been around for a while, but doctors say it’s attacking respiratory systems in a new way.
http://www.wkrg.com/story/26431245/local-hospital-warns-respiratory-illness-in-children
Is this muted RSV?
if the flu outbreak hasn’t been bad enough, North Texas hospitals are seeing a big jump in children testing positive for RSV, a respiratory illness with symptoms that closely mirror the flu.
“I really freaked out this morning,” new dad Collin Walker told CBS 11 News. “We were like, `we gotta go to the emergency room.’”
Walker’s month-old daughter, Ivy, at first seemed to have caught a cold—but, then began struggling to breath — sending her parents into panic mode.
“She was breathing funny, had a lot of congestion and it wasn’t coming out… not getting any better and then she was diagnosed with RSV.”
Doctors say RSV, or bronchiolitis, can be a serious concern and even fatal for small infants and those with chronic illnesses. But, most children, experts say, need only time and comfort for the symptoms: coughing, sneezing, congestion and fever.
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2014/01/10/more-north-texas-children-testing-positive-for-rsv/
Detection of Enterovirus 68 (EV68) has recently been increased However, underlying evolutionary mechanism of this increasing trend is not fully understood
http://www.plosone.org/article/
We studied the viral etiology of acute expiratory wheezing (bronchiolitis, acute asthma) in 293 hospitalized children in a 2-year prospective study in Finland. A potential causative viral agent was detected in 88% of the cases. Eleven different viruses were represented. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) (27%), enteroviruses (25%), rhinovirus (24%), and nontypable rhino/enterovirus (16%) were found most frequently. In infants, RSV was found in 54% and respiratory picornaviruses (rhinovirus and enteroviruses) in 42% of the cases. In older children, respiratory picornaviruses dominated (65% of children ages 1-2 years and 82% of children ages >3 years). Human metapneumovirus was detected in 4% of all children and in 11% of infants. To prevent and treat acute expiratory wheezing illnesses in children, efforts should be focused on RSV, enterovirus, and rhinovirus infections.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3323183/
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