Age: 0.33
Sex: F
Vaccine: DTAPIPVHIB, PPV, RV1
Symptoms: Muscle twitching, Nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, Pyrexia, Screaming, Seizure
Clinical narrative: I kept postponing patient's 4 month vaccines because she had been so fussy. But Thursday (4-4-19) I finally decided to take her! We left the Health Department at 3:33. Everything was wonderful! She was happy and napping! Shortly after her nap, of course she was fussy. So she had a bottle. Some time later, fussy again! All she wanted was me! Which hasn't happened since she was a newborn. She is very independent. Everything seemed normal until a ometime around 8 pm. I was feeding her and her left arm started shaking uncontrollably. I FaceTimed my mom, who is a PRN, but then she started jerking. Alarmed, my sister, and I got ahold of 911. The paramedics from the fire Department show up and 5 minutes after, everything stopped. The Paramedics told me she seemed fine, and to have mom come over check her out and keep an eye on her. But we ended up going to the ER anyways. She was fine, happy, and sleeping! So we decided to shake it off, go home and see her pediatrician in the morning! Skip to 11:40 pm after being in bed for some time. I was glued to the app. This is a monitoring device (Heart Rate and Oxygen) Watching every moment. I saw her HR climbing from 130 to 150. (I have the records in my phone). Before I got up to run, I heard her scream. When I picked her up, the way her muscles tensed and her body shook will haunt me for the rest of my life... I kept telling myself it's nothing.. maybe some muscle spasms.? Until I laid her on the couch and saw her eyes. She was shaking uncontrollably, eyes rolling around and her gasps of air sounded like a low pitched hyena. I sprinted to the car with her in my arms and we (her father and I) rushed back to the  ER, out of the door by 11:44. When we arrived, her temperature was 101.5 and her heart rate was 220. 20 minutes into the ER trip watching 12 Nurses and Doctors hold down and take care of my poor, sweet girl, the seizure finally stops. I just sat there watching her little leg twitch. They did an X-Ray on her chest and many other tests and proposed it was pneumonia. Before her vaccines, there were NO symptoms of sickness. NONE. Shortly after, we were told she was going to a hospital to see a Peds Neuro. We chose a Medical Center. We were taken to an ICU ambulance and made it to the hospital at 4:30 am. Patient was taken her her room, ICU. They monitored her until around 10-11 am, Dr ordered an MRI. She had to be sedated in order for them to do this test. Shortly after, they did a brain wave test (EEG), and many, many blood tests. Around 3 pm Dr concluded she had been infected with Coronavirus. However, Dr told me, we cannot price whether the seizure came from the virus, the temperatures or the vaccines. I find that hard to believe considering she was given PCV13 and the DTaP vaccines hours before the seizures started. Hours before a fever occurred, She had normal 98.6° temperatures until she received the HIB (and other vaccines). I did hours of research sitting there awake discovering the HIB vaccine causes 1/20 children to have a fever of 101° and above. I also discovered that 1/20 children can have seizures following the PCV13 and DTaP vaccines. She was prescribed Tylenol for fevers and Keppra for seizures. She was monitored through out the night. After she was given the Tylenol and Keppra, Patient's heart rate went from being in the 140?s while sleeping, to a normal 110-118 (while sleeping). Around 10:30 this morning, a Doctor came in and told us we would be discharged. We made it home, around 3:30 pm. In 2-3 weeks she has to follow back up with the Doctor and with her Pediatrician this week.