1ºWe live in Tampa Florida, in June 2022 my then 12 year old son had a headache that would not go away. It got so bad he couldn't eat or drink anything just slept. During this time I kept taking him to the Dr's and ER and they kept sending us home. It took a 3rd ER visit plus his altered mental state for them to take us serious. Within the hour we found out he had brain abscesses that would require immediate brain surgery one on June 24th and one on June 28th, he has 3 incisions one literally goes from one ear to the other like a headband. Thankfully my son is better but it was a very scary situation he was in a coma for awhile had high fevers for days that they couldn't get to go down which caused seizures. He had to have help learning to walk again etc. It was a very difficult time. My baby turner 13 in the hospital and didn't even know it was his birthday as he was fighting for his life. I still have nightmares.
2ºJoy Whitney The cause of this brain abscess is a bacterium strepcoccocus , and this bacterium enter in brain by breathing or touth decay and we can traited this brain abscess with antibiotic ,like pinicilline ,amoxicilline or novaclav or with surgery - also this bacterium cause anginia ,cardiac anginia , , anginia of throat and caused buttons around the mouth and the noise and on the skin of the hand ,this desease is benin like anginia ,but can be dangerous if che not traited in the time , so we must move away from peoples who have cough and if we see symptoms we must doing tests
3ºOctober 2022, my son who had just turned 14 experienced this as well. No underlying health issues. He is prone to seasonal allergies but otherwise, does not get sick often or even suffer from common colds very often. He came home from school with flu like symptoms and 4 days later we went to urgent care where he tested positive for flu A. His fever would not come down with meds and the headaches were unbearable. After an ER visit and then waking up the next day with a swollen eye, we took him back to the ER, they ordered a CT scan and diagnosed him with orbital cellulitis (bacterial abscess on the soft tissue of the area around the eye). We were admitted to Texas Children’s in the Houston medical center that night. And after an MRI we found out his infection spread to the brain. While in-patient, he had 2 emergency surgeries (clearing the pus from his sinus cavities, and draining the abscess around the eye), however 2 days later things got worse and he started having seizures and was moved to the ICU. He then had an emergency 3rd surgery - brain surgery to remove the abscess caused by the infection that started in his sinuses and had spread intracranial. He also developed a blood clot in one of the veins around his brain. After the surgeries, they were able to grow a sample of the bacteria and determined it was limited to one organism - staphylococcus, which allowed the infectious disease team to narrow his IV antibiotic regimen from 3 to just 1.
After being discharged, he continued treatment at home having a PICC line where we administered the aggressive IV antibiotics every 6 hours. The entire ordeal between the hospital stay and at home treatment lasted about 6 weeks. It was very traumatic, but thankfully, he is back in school, living a typical teenage boy’s lifestyle and we are now just going to doctor visits for routine followups.
I hope the studies around these infections continue outside of Nevada. While we were in the hospital, the surgeons also expressed concerns about the increase in cases exactly like my son’s. That this was not “normal.” They had performed surgeries for 9 other kids with the same condition in a 2 week span.
Thinking about all of the other children and families who have gone through this too. It’s very scary and you have to act fast in these situations.