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THE BATTAll
Doctors battle new flu complications
By Daniel Yee
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA — Doctors this year have been surprised and over
whelmed by the number of children with severe flu complica
tions, and the nation’s health agency plans to monitor them.
Of particular concern is the rise of a drug-resistant staph infec
tion that is complicating efforts to treat them, an official with the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dr. Tim Uyeki, epidemiologist with the influenza branch of
CDC, said Monday that some children have died
from the staph infections — a phenomenon the
CDC has not seen before.
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
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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.
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