Family says 3-year-old Iowa girl died from flu

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Family says 3-year-old Iowa girl died from flu

UPDATED 8:01 PM CST Jan 01, 2015

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The Iowa Department of Health has not reported any official flu deaths so far this season, but there have been several flu-related deaths including a 3-year-old girl from Elk Horn.

Ayzlee McCarthy, 3, was buried New Year's Day in Elk Horn.
Her family told KCCI that she died Monday morning at Blank Children's Hospital in Des Moines not even 72 hours after she started showing flu like symptoms.

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http://www.kcci.com/news/family-says...m-flu/30492650

 

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http://www.desmoinesregister.com/st.../02/flu-deaths-iowa-young-girl-dies/21214315/

[h=1]'Healthy' Iowa 3-year-old dies from flu[/h] Kathy A. Bolten, kbolten @ dmreg.com 8:09 p.m. CST January 2, 2015
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When Ayzlee woke up on Dec. 27, she complained that her legs ached so badly that she couldn't walk. She ran a fever but didn't show any other signs of having the flu, said her mother, who is a respiratory therapist. Amber McCarthy said she thought her daughter might have a urinary tract infection, and took her to a clinic, where she tested positive for the flu.
"She tested positive for both A and B" types of influenza, Amber McCarthy said. "I never in a million years thought that was what we'd be at the clinic for."
Amber McCarthy took her daughter home and followed medical professionals' instructions: She made sure Ayzlee drank plenty of fluids and gave her ibuprofen and other medicines.
Ayzlee's fever broke later on Dec. 27, and her mother said she thought her daughter was feeling better.
...At about 4 a.m. Dec. 29, Amber McCarthy woke up and looked at her daughter, whose breathing was once again labored and whose heart was racing. She called for a nurse, and said she remembers Ayzlee saying to her, "Mommy, I so tired. I done."...

She died waiting to be intubated.