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Flu complications for children have always been dire: pneumonia, kidney and heart failure, possible brain damage. “We’ve just never seen them in the proportions we’ve seen them this year,” said Dr. Steve Schexnayder, chief of pediatric critical care at Arkansas Children’s Hospital in Little Rock. From Texas to California, children’s hospitals have been swamped with sick children — many of them desperately ill. The waiting room at Children’s Hospital Central California in Madera was standing room only during the Thanksgiving holiday. Hospital officials called the crowding an epidemic for that facility and said nearly every child tested positive for the flu. Children’s Medical Center in Dallas has seen more than 500 kids with the flu since October. One day last week, two dozen more appeared, most with enough lung disease to be put on ven tilators, said Dr. Jane Siegel. Colorado Springs hospitals have discouraged other kids from coming to the hospital in fear they will catch the virus. In that state six children have died of the flu. Doctors say some children are coming into hospitals with so much damage they are put on heart-lung bypass machines just to stay alive. Others face additional problems: Nine-year-old Nick Collins needed four chest tubes to drain fluid from three holes in his lungs caused by bacterial pneumonia. Doctors are trying to pre- u It's scary to find that something as common as the flu can cause something this major every year. mother vent a blood clot from killing him. He has also developed methicillin-resistant staphytaii aureus (MRSA), which led to his severe pneumonia. Nick, a healthy boy until he got the flu in early Novembfi doing better, having been removed from a ventilator on Fiiiy But he’ll likely have to stay in the hospital through theendo year, his mother says. "It’s scary to find that something as common as cause something this major every year,” said his Collins of Texarkana, Texas. "We sit around for days in awe of J fact the flu has caused all of this.’’ Flu and its complications are the sixth leal cause of death nationally among childrenageds younger, according to the CDC. Anecdotally, this flu season seems tobewn tor children. But because the CDC doesn'ils track of flu deaths, it’s unclear how much w The agency is planning to collect data to fpt out, said Dr. Keiji Fukuda, chief of epidemic! in the CDC’s influenza branch. In addition, some connected with theCDO there may be a push to add school-age childrei the list of those most strongly urged to gelfc: shot the best protection against the virus.! current recommendation for children coversi!i from 6 months to 2 years and those who havett tain chronic conditions. Kim Collins of flu victim "My own prediction is what you’ll continue toseeisa mg of the recommendation for influenza immunization." Greg Poland, a Mayo Clinic professor and a member of the CK advisory' committee on immunization. "It only makes sense Pregnant w omen — urged to get the flu shot if they areii second or third trimester — have also become a concern this The CDC is looking closely at some cases in which pres women have displayed high pulse rates — which couldle symptom of a dangerous, and potentially fatal, inflamman. the heart, said Dr. William Schaffner, a flu expert withVandei l niversity Medical Center. Texas in particular has reported a eral such cases. In North Carolina health officials made it a point lasii single out both pregnant women and children up toagefe groups that should get the vaccine. Fih<A U-Pe coh-PiasIh^? Even cotMp<nss v\ee<As fUe NovVU Pole, Jesus said, “1 am (he light of the world; he who follows Me shall not walk in the darkness, hut will have the light of life.” John 8:12. And now here’s the really good news: God is reaching out to men and women through His son, Jesus Christ. 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