Mum, Emma Clark, says her daughter should have been diagnosed much quicker and has now been left with juvenile arthritis in her elbow
A Lanarkshire mum has spoken out about her experience after her six-year-old daughter was left fighting for her life after catching Strep A.
Little Ellie, who has developed juvenile arthritis as a result of the infection, spent five days hooked up to an IV drip of antibiotics before being allowed home to Hamilton. Mum Emma, 26, has spoken out in a bid to raise awareness of the symptoms associated with Strep A and believes her daughter’s condition would never have gotten so bad if the GP surgery had caught it earlier.
Emma told how the rest of their family had to complete a course of antibiotics as a precaution in case they too had picked up the nasty bacteria with contact tracing carried out by NHS Lanarkshire. Mum-of-two Emma told how she knew something was seriously wrong with her daughter, who looked like “death warmed up”, despite being fobbed off twice.
“Her temperature was sitting at 40.1 and it went up to 40.3 even though she had had Calpol. She had a rash beside her mouth, a really sore throat and her vomiting had gotten so bad that she was throwing up blood. She was chalk white and she looked like death warmed up. “We were given an appointment at 1.30am on the 8th. We took her to her appointment but they didn’t know what was wrong with her. Her temperature kept rising and her blood pressure was sky high. They told us to go straight up to the Wishaw General.
The more serious symptoms are high fever, severe muscle aches and muscle pain, swelling or redness near a wound and unexplained diarrhoea or vomiting.
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