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Six month old dies from meningitis
Thursday, July 09, 2009, 07:00
A MOTHER has warned other parents about how her baby "deteriorated in minutes" after being rushed to hospital with meningitis.
Six-month-old Brayden Hume was taken to the doctors last Tuesday and given eye drops for suspected conjunctivitis. But 24 hours later he was in hospital and died within 48 hours.
"It was a complete shock," said Brayden's mother, 20-year-old Naomi Horsley of Netherfield Lane, Meden Vale.
"You wouldn't think it would happen to your children.
"The doctor said to me on Wednesday night that if Brayden did pull through he will have no limbs. I said I'm not bothered as long as he gets through the disease.
"It was so quick it was unbelievable. He deteriorated in minutes."
Miss Horsley said her other son, four-year-old Lewis, and her partner Antony Hume, 20, have been struggling to cope since Brayden's death.
She said: "I would not wish it on anybody. I would tell parents if they suspect anything to just go to the doctors straight away, no matter what you are doing, where you are going.
"I do blame myself and I don't. At 4am he had no rash. I just thought it was the hot weather or he was teething or he had a bug.
"It's still like one big dream and we just want to wake up.
"The nurse told me I had to explain it to Lewis and use the word 'die' and I think he sort of understands.
"That night he said he wanted to stay awake so the sky was dark and he could see his brother as a star.
"Brayden was brilliant. He had a cry that you would recognise. He always had a big smile for everybody."
On Wednesday night Brayden wouldn't drink and was crying and being sick. By 7am Miss Horsley called her mother, Gail Horsley, who lives five doors down and delivered Brayden at her daughter's home six months' ago. She said: "I walked in the room and looked at him and said you better get an ambulance.
"He was really, really pale.
"While we waited for the ambulance I kept talking to him and I suspect now he was slipping out of consciousness."
Brayden was taken to Kings Mill Hospital before being transferred to the Queen's Medical Centre.
His grandmother added: "His blood pressure was low, his pulse was racing. They told me it's like a snowball effect.
"One of the nurses I spoke to said the disease was airborne. It incubates in the back of the throat and when you go to kiss your child on the lips it passes.
"I would say to parents don't kiss your children on the lips, especially babies."
claire.carter@nottinghameveningpost.co.uk
Six month old dies from meningitis
Thursday, July 09, 2009, 07:00
A MOTHER has warned other parents about how her baby "deteriorated in minutes" after being rushed to hospital with meningitis.
Six-month-old Brayden Hume was taken to the doctors last Tuesday and given eye drops for suspected conjunctivitis. But 24 hours later he was in hospital and died within 48 hours.
"It was a complete shock," said Brayden's mother, 20-year-old Naomi Horsley of Netherfield Lane, Meden Vale.
"You wouldn't think it would happen to your children.
"The doctor said to me on Wednesday night that if Brayden did pull through he will have no limbs. I said I'm not bothered as long as he gets through the disease.
"It was so quick it was unbelievable. He deteriorated in minutes."
Miss Horsley said her other son, four-year-old Lewis, and her partner Antony Hume, 20, have been struggling to cope since Brayden's death.
She said: "I would not wish it on anybody. I would tell parents if they suspect anything to just go to the doctors straight away, no matter what you are doing, where you are going.
"I do blame myself and I don't. At 4am he had no rash. I just thought it was the hot weather or he was teething or he had a bug.
"It's still like one big dream and we just want to wake up.
"The nurse told me I had to explain it to Lewis and use the word 'die' and I think he sort of understands.
"That night he said he wanted to stay awake so the sky was dark and he could see his brother as a star.
"Brayden was brilliant. He had a cry that you would recognise. He always had a big smile for everybody."
On Wednesday night Brayden wouldn't drink and was crying and being sick. By 7am Miss Horsley called her mother, Gail Horsley, who lives five doors down and delivered Brayden at her daughter's home six months' ago. She said: "I walked in the room and looked at him and said you better get an ambulance.
"He was really, really pale.
"While we waited for the ambulance I kept talking to him and I suspect now he was slipping out of consciousness."
Brayden was taken to Kings Mill Hospital before being transferred to the Queen's Medical Centre.
His grandmother added: "His blood pressure was low, his pulse was racing. They told me it's like a snowball effect.
"One of the nurses I spoke to said the disease was airborne. It incubates in the back of the throat and when you go to kiss your child on the lips it passes.
"I would say to parents don't kiss your children on the lips, especially babies."
claire.carter@nottinghameveningpost.co.uk