If any of these symptoms occur, they should be taken to hospital. She advised parents to make sure their children get their flu jabs and monitor them when they're sick to see if they develop a high fever, cannot drink fluids, or refuse to wake up if they're asleep. But even then, most kids don't get nearly as sick as Mathias did."ĭr Boyle added that there was nothing Mathias' parents could have done sooner to prevent their son's amputations. Sometimes when you get the flu it does set you up for a bacterial infection. She said his condition is rare, and something she hardly ever sees. Head of Mathias' care team is Dr Katie Boyle, an ICU paediatrician, who worked with her colleagues to try and save as much of Mathias' limbs as possible. "I said when we got to the doctors when we came there, 'Please don't use the word amputation'," said Catalina.
Edgar explained: "That flow wasn't getting to all of his extremities, so they had to amputate all of his four extremities." The teenager was also put onto a life-supporting ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) machine, similar to a heart-lung by-pass machine, for almost two weeks, saving his life.
He ended up there after being diagnosed with pneumonia and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome and going into cardiac arrest. For the last two months, Mathias has been recovering at the Monroe Carrel Junior Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt.
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