Age: 2.0
Sex: F
Vaccine: DTAPHEPBIP
Symptoms: Crying, Immediate post-injection reaction, Injection site discolouration, Injection site erythema, Injection site haemorrhage
Clinical narrative: On Wednesday 6/19/2019 at 10:00 am Patient was injected with DTAP-HBV-POL aka, (Pediarix). Her first time receiving this shot was on 4/17/2019. I have requested from Clinic the exact Vaccine type, brand name, manufacturer, and lot number, but they have refused to provide me with this information. The female nurse who administered the shot was reckless in the way she stabbed my child in the leg. It immediately was black and blue, and was bleeding quite a bit. This was nothing like the first time we went for this shot. My child was crying hysterical, and was obviously injured from the way she was injected. We left the pediatric center without a printout, which we usually get that summarizes who you say and what was done. Upon calling back, the person who helped me, said that in the system it showed as LVN as the person who we say that day. We did receive a printout to the updated shot card, which shows what was given, by generic information, as I have provided above. On Thursday 6/20/2019, at 9:40 am my child had a red hive over a ½? in size, located more than 3? from the infection site. By 1:50 pm the red hives had increased in size to 3?+ in every direction. At 5:30 pm her entire leg was swollen to twice the size of her other leg, with solid nodules in multiple areas. At this point we rushed her to the pediatrics ER, because the vaccine handouts provided to me by Clinic said, that a ?Serious Problem? would be if the child had an allergic reaction that would include hives, swelling, difficulty breathing, weakness, heart problems. The advice of the nurse spoken to on the phone also said we should go in. We were seen by Dr. at the after-hours Pediatric urgent care. Dr. evaluated Patient and said that she is obviously having a reaction to the vaccine. I asked her how common this is and she said, ?once in a blue-moon?. I asked her how many times she has seen reaction like this, and she said ?never?. She also said that, ?it should not get any worse, but if it does to come back immediately?. She also said, ?not to worry, and that this type of reaction will appear within a few minutes to hours, but not later than that?. This was incorrect as my child developed this the next day after the shot. I asked if I should worry as other severe reactions may include swelling, and difficulty breathing. She said, ?That is very rare?. I asked her how rare, once in a blue moon? So we left with no resolve, due to the misinformation and misleading conflicting statements of the doctor versus the handouts provided for the vaccines and severe reactions. I monitored my child all night with no sleep to make sure she would not stop breathing. On Friday 6/21/2019, at 7:55 am the original hive site is raised and red. With a reaction area that has grown past 6? inches. We kept our appointment made the previous day, and went to Pediatrics and saw Dr. He said ?she was having a local reaction to a vaccine.? Upon first evaluating her, he listened to her heartbeat and then tried to look in her ears. He said ?maybe she is fussy for a different reason, like an ear infection.? This was a ridiculous statement, and I asked him to focus on the injection and what it was doing instead. He said, ?It is not uncommon to see a reaction to a vaccine the second or third time. It is completely possible to have a more severe reaction with the next shots. He said that he has never reported a vaccine reaction.? The fact that he said that it is common to see worse reactions with multiple doses and that he has never reported an injury, is why I knew that I had to make this report myself, and that my child is at more serious risk for even worse complications with any more vaccines. The he said that ?maybe my hesitance to give shots has played a role in how we are perceiving this thing.? He then asked me, ?Are you fearful of anything from these shots entering her body, because it might hurt her?? Of course I am worried that this poison mix of diseases would hurt my child, and the fact that he said that my perception of her injuries did not make sense. He then said, ?There seems to be a lack of trust from what you are hearing from the medical community. If I do something for a child that can potentially prevent a death that has an infinitesimally small chance of causing harm, I would advocate for doing these things- 1 of them is Vitamin-K.? ?I would give a million shots to prevent the 5 cases of hemorrhagic diseases.? He then said that we ?have to define rare- rare to the general public is 1 in a 1000. Which is different to medical professionals, where 1 in 1000 is a big number of anything happening.? His advice was, ?to use Benadryl, and not to worry about the vaccines, as there a lot of vaccines. 17 before the age of 2.?  ?We can make up these shots over time.? He then said that ?we have had 42 cases of measles in state, because of international travel, and because people are not vaccinated.? ?And that our chance are infinitesimally small of actually contracting measles even if we were to come in contact with it.? He then said, ?That he would recommend the pneumococcal vaccines to avoid a potential death.? ?And that he does not believe that the roto-virus, HPV, and Hep B are needed for every child, but  Hep B is mixed in?  His final words of advice were to ?choose a different vaccine?.  Later On Friday 6/21/2019 at 3:33 pm, multiple raised hives had developed over her lower leg, and the swelling continued. On Saturday 6/22/2019, Nodules over 4? away from site and throughout her leg, black and blue at injection site, and swelling, hives still exist. On Sunday 6/23/2019, Nodules over 4? away from site and throughout her leg, black and blue at injection site, and swelling, hives still exist. On Monday 6/24/2019, I met with Dr., her primary care physician. He just said to wait it out, and that he recommends to continue with the injections, on perhaps a different schedule.  On Monday 6/24/2019, Patient developed raised bumps all over her lower back, on her butt everywhere and on both tops of her legs. They lasted for 3 additional days. On Tuesday 6/25/2019, Nodules over 4? away from site and throughout her leg, black and blue at injection site, and swelling, hives still exist. On Wednesday 6/26/2019. Nodules over 4? away from site and throughout her leg, black and blue at injection site, and swelling, hives still exist. On Wednesday 7/10/2019, the reactions seem to have finally stopped and gone away, but I?m really not sure.