SIX YEAR OLD SAVED AFTER TREATMENT FOR SEVERE BREATHING PROBLEM
(Hazlet, NJ) — Immediate Care Medical Walk-in of Hazlet lived up to its name recently, after a frantic mother carried her six year old daughter into the facility for difficulty breathing. “She was on the verge of going into anaphylactic shock, wheezing, had difficulty breathing and had broken out in a rash,” said Stacie Stopen, nurse practitioner. “We immediately administered oxygen, gave her an injection of steroid and started her on a breathing treatment of a bronchodilator. She was smiling and breathing normally within the hour.”
The problem started when a classmate offered the little girl a bite of her sandwich that contained a luncheon meat with peanuts, to which she was allergic. That resulted in an almost immediate difficulty in breathing. Her teacher quickly contacted the school nurse who, in turn, called her parents. The mother took the little girl home and soon discovered that the child was progressing to hives even after an Epipen injection and some Benadryl, it still wasn’t helping. So they drove to Immediate Care Medical Walk-in of Hazlet where they were treated immediately.
“That’s why we’re here,” says Dr. Lisa Golding-Granado, medical director of the facility. “Our staff is trained for virtually any crisis. And there’s, typically, little or no wait.”
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I am glad the little girl is well. As a parent of a now adult child that was severly allergic to peanuts, we went through hell 25 years or so ago to have people understand that innocent exposure can be deadly. By the time my son was six he had to pratically interogate anyone offering him food at camp or school to prevent happening to him what happened to this girl. Not easy for a young child.
will become ever- more important, as the dreaded and unwanted Obamacare behemoth gets imposed on us next year: it is already costing $billions$ more in taxes, penalties, and premiums.. the denial and detached attitude of most people,is going to be in retrograde, when they see how hard obtaining any decent care is going to be.. the dedicated healthcare professionals such as these folks, will be more than overworked, exhausted, and quickly burned out, at the difficulties they will have,in trying to deliver the right care when needed, including life and death scenarios such as this one.. glad the child is ok, bless the caregivers..