Children's Health Defense
The parents of the 6-year-old West Texas child who died in a hospital after testing positive for measles shared their story with Children’s Health Defense’s (CHD) Polly Tommey and Brian Hooker, Ph.D., in a live interview recorded Saturday in Seminole, Texas.
Tommey and Hooker made the trip to Seminole, where the parents live, to see for themselves what was happening in the West Texas measles outbreak. Seminole is in Gaines County where the number of measles cases is highest, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.
The mother of the child who died on Feb. 26 said her last interaction with her daughter involved trying to give her a drink of water.
“I just remember before they wanted to put her on the ventilator that she was very thirsty,” the mother recalled. “Her mouth was all sticky and I wanted to give her water but they didn’t let me.”
On today’s episode of “Good Morning, CHD,” Tommey, CHD.TV program director, and Hooker, CHD’s chief scientific officer, showed the footage from their in-person interview with the parents.
“This is their story,” Tommey said. “This is how they wanted you to hear it from them.”
The parents said that when their daughter first became sick, they knew she had measles because they knew that other children in their community had it and that “measles were going around.”
They took their daughter to see a doctor two days after her rash appeared. The doctor gave the mother “something for her cough” and sent her home with instructions to give her Tylenol to control the fever.
The girl’s measles started going away, but her fever kept getting worse.
The mother said, “Then I just noticed one morning that she was saying she was getting very tired and I was just noticing her breathing wasn’t normal. And that’s when we just decided to go to the emergency [room] and get it checked out.”
She said there wasn’t anything “very bad” happening at that point. “It was just something I was concerned about…
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