Will my coma girl ever recover from MMR jab?

[John]

They admit here it can cause death yet they all lie and say it never kills.

Will my coma girl ever recover from MMR jab? Daily Express, June 2, 2002

THE mother of a little girl who slipped into a coma just days after haying the controversial MMR jab
fears that her daughter will never make a full recovery. Three-year-old Levi Ellis started shaking
uncontrollably and fell into unconsciousness a week after having the injection. Now her distraught
mother, Cheryl Bell, 33, has vowed to seek compensation for Levi's ordeal. The nightmare began just
two days after Levi had the jab in January. "I had put it off for a while because Levi has asthma
and she had not been well. But my doctor said everyone else was having it, so I said she could too."
Just two days later, Levi's temperature was fluctuating wildly, she had a rash all over her body and
seemed "far from her usual chirpy self". Cheryl, of Glass Houghton, near Castleford, West Yorkshire,
took Levi back to her G. She was sent home with some calamine lotion for the rash and some
paracetamol. The very next day things reached crisis point. Back at the doctor's surgery, Levi
started fitting and collapsed. "We got her out of it," said Cheryl, "but in the ambulance to
hospital she started fitting again. "When we got there she was taken from me and rushed into
intensive care where they gave 3 her lots of drugs. "It was touch and go for a while. I was
frightened. I kept asking, 'Will she live, or will she die?' No one could tell me." Cheryl spent the
night beside her daughter's bed at Pontefract General Infirmary. The next day Levi woke up, but was
kept in hospital for another week, under close observation. But, says Cheryl, ever since coming
home, Levi has "not been right. She used to be really aware, lively and chatty. She still gets the
shakes. Sometimes it's like she is in another world. "I will be talking to her and it's like she
can't hear me, and then she comes back, she misses bits. "She shakes when she sleeps and it scares
me." Cheryl says her GP later told her that Levi had had a bad reaction to
MMR.Cheryl's two other children Stephen, 16, and eight-year-old Nathan both had the MMR jab without
any ill effects. Cheryl is now "racked with guilt" and wishes she had listened to her doubts
over Levi's asthma. Although a brain scan has not revealed any damage, Levi will need regular
check-ups to monitor her progress. "I just don't know if she will ever be the same little girl
she was," said Cheryl, who plans to press for compensation under the Government's 1979 Vaccine
Damage Payment Act. This is a special fund that allows parents of children affected by NHS
vaccines to claim up to £100,000. Cheryl added: "No amount of money will change what has
happened to Levi, but if she needs anything in the future I want to be able to provide it." The
controversy over the combined measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine first arose in 1998 when
a report in medical journal The Lancet hinted at a link to bowel and behavioural disorders.
Although discredited many times, the report has persuaded many parents to shun the jab. The
Department of Health insists that bad reactions to the MMR jab are unusual. About 600,000
vaccines are given every year. Of those, about one in 100,000 children will suffer side effects.
In very rare cases the jab can cause inflammation of the brain, leading to coma and even death.

 

[Mark Probertdec]

"john" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> They admit here it can cause death yet they all lie and say it never kills.

Who is "they" and can you dsocument that "they" never acknowledge that it can kill?

Of course you cannot. You are a loon.

 

[Martha H Adams]

This has the makings of a very sad story beginning; and I thought comments up this thread were off-
topic, inappropriate, and.... <Rant firmly stopped.>

I haven't heard a term "fitting," but I wonder if "seizing" might work better there.

People are a little like computers: progress is neat and tidy when things are going well, but if you
fall off the track, anything can happen. As I thought I saw in your story.

Now comes the hard part. Review your vocabulary, and tell your story to someone -- *one* someone,
who might be able to help. This will start some sort of an interaction, a conversational movement or
circle. When it ends, sit down and make notes: what was that person like; what was the course of
things? Action cycle; think cycle. Then do it again, and again....

Because, you're off the generally recognized track and you have to go it alone. Just getting out
there and struggling probably isn't going to do much for you. But if you set yourself to do an
action cycle and then a think cycle where you learn out of it all you can find in it, you're going
to make yourself more knowledgeable and stronger. At a point you may come up a winner.

Of course, the basic question is, what happened to your child? I do not feel a lot of optimism about
this; but, appropriate treatment for a hurt child such as you may have here, may work wonders. I
would say time is a factor here: the less of it lost before you find a good response and can move
knowingly into a best course of action, the better.

Beyond here, the picture as I see it spins off into countless possibilities. I cannot see your
winning strategy. I can see a guaranteed losing strategy: do nothing. Good luck.

Cheers -- Martha Adams