Age: 0.6
Sex: F
Vaccine: DTAPIPVHIB, HEP, PNC13, RVX
Symptoms: Unresponsive to stimuli, Visual impairment
Clinical narrative: This spontaneous report was received from a patient's mother via social medial article. On 05-NOV-2012, the patient was 6 months old. Patient was a perfectly healthy baby with no health or development issues at all. She was crawling and sitting on her own by this time. She was due for her 6 month shots and on this day. The patient was vaccinated with oral Rotavirus vaccine (manufacture unknown) the DTaP-Hib-IPV (5-in-1 combo vaccine), the Hepatitis B vaccine, the PREVNAR 13 vaccine, for a total of 8 vaccine doses. After the patient got her shots she started to be more fussy and sleeping more. Approximately in December-2012, a month later, the patient was unresponsive in her arms, her head went back and forth for a moment and that she was not responding to anything. The patient father got her to react to him but she was stuck, like if she had a stroke or something. The patient was taken to the emergency room. There, she had a fever, they did a CT (computerized tomogram) scan and MRI (Magnetic resonance imaging), the doctor came in and told me and my husband out of 10 years of him being a doctor, he didn't know what was wrong with my baby. The patient mother was told they had no answers for us and that we needed to take her to the pediatrician in the morning and make an appointment for a checkup. The patient was sent home with her paralyzed. Approximately in 2012, the next morning they changed her diaper and noticed she could not sit down on her own any more, she couldn't move, she was paralyzed. The patient's called the ambulance and she was rushed to the Hospital, where she was placed in the ICU (intensive care unit). The hospital called CPS. At first, they blamed shaken baby syndrome, which was shocking, because she wasn't ever shaken. Then they came back and said the bleeding was from birth, that it was old blood and told she might never walk or crawl. On 06-DEC-2012, the patient was laying in the ICU on a breathing machine. They had her in the ICU for 8 days and treated her with steroids. The patient was released on 14-12-2012. The patient had bleeding in her brain, ended up paralyzed and was diagnosed with transverse myelitis spinal cord disease. She was then sent home with little to no help that she would ever walk or crawl. Approximately in 2013, about a year passed, the patient continued to live with complications with her walking, not being able to feel her feet, she was falling often, had a lot of headaches and constant back pain. The patient got ill and started to have episodes where she would stay stuck for 30 to 45 minutes. We couldn't bend her and she couldn't communicate with them. In 2015, they discovered she had Chiari Malformation. They admitted into other hospital for another opinion and where they told she definitely had Chiari Malformation and her neurologist also told us she had hypertonic dystonia. The patient was seen in many hospitals. The patient never recovered from the vaccines given at 6 months but the doctor insisted we continue to vaccinate her. On 22-OCT-2015, the doctor gave the patient two vaccine injections (DTaP-Hib-IPV (120) and Hib (49)), during that appointment. These vaccines made her worse and we knew they would, which is why we didn't want her getting anymore. The patient was currently 3 year-old. The patient can walk, but had many complications. The patient received those other vaccines (DTaP-Hib-IPV (120) and Hib (49)), which had been more irritable. Patient dealt with horrible headaches. The patient couldn't play like normal kids without feeling frustrated; if she plays like a normal child her age, she starts to cry and hold the back of her head and back and says it hurts. Patient's vision has gone bad; she had to wear glasses now and her eye doctor said her vision is horrible. The patient stutters, she walks on her tiptoes and falls all the time, she wakes up every morning with back pain and cries every morning, she couldn't hold her bowel movements some days, we had to put her back in diapers. Patient had problems understanding when they told her not to behave a certain way; she had communication problems. They had to take her out of events to rest, so she won't get any episodes. In 2014, the eye problem just found out about last year. They are not sure how long she had been having eye problems. We noticed she couldn't find stuff that was right next to her, or in front of her. She would sit right in front of the television and squint her eyes, so I made her an appointment at my friend patient's job and got her eyes checked and sure enough, the eye doctor said her vision is really bad. Despite all of these health problems that occurred after the patient received those eight vaccine doses when she was six months old, none of her doctors would admit the vaccines harmed her, even though the vaccine package insert to the Hepatitis B vaccine alone lists many associated reactions the patient suffers from, including brain damage, vision problems, transverse myelitis and diagnosed by her neurologist with hypertonic dystonia. The patient also was diagnosed with Chiari Malformation (CM) Type I. When injured, this can cause many symptoms, including toe-walking, commonly observed in vaccine-injured children. This means the patient very well acquired this injury and was not born with it. The vaccines she was given were never looked at as the cause of her injuries, yet they are the most plausible cause of her condition, which occurred 30 days or less post-vaccination. The events bleeding in brain, paralysis, Arnold Chiari malformation, hypertonic dystonia, transverse myelitis and brain injury were considered serious as life threatening and hospitalization. Additional information has been requested.