Re: septic arthititis and brustis

March 20, 2001

Hi ,

I'm a new member. I was referring to a time when the doctors made a screw

up giving my son immunizations when he had strep in his system. The day

after the immunizations, he woke up not being able to walk. Was in serious

pain with his left hip joint. He was running a steady 104 fever which they

couldn't break, and vomiting like crazy too. They took him into emergency

surgery to aspirate the hip to see if it was indeed septic. It turned out

to be a systemic reaction (all over the body) caused by what they had done.

So we were at least lucky that he didn't have septic arthritis.

I'm really sorry to hear about ! I'll be keeping you in my prayers and

hoping that they will be able to get this infection under control so that

she doesn't have any permanent damage.

, mother of Chad, age 9, " Hypo " , GERD, Asthma/Bronchitis, " Allergy

King " , Scoliosis, ??IGA Nephropathy and Anemia

septic arthititis and brustis

>

> I haven't spent much time on line lately and missed the message regarding

the septic arthitis.

>

> just spent almost a month in the hospital with what started out as a

blood infection and ended up with a bone infection, fluid in her hip joint

that had bacteria in it and in her bursea's on both hips. She is home on IV

antibiotics tobramycin and oxacillin every 6 hours. The orthro and

infectious disease doctors are hoping that the antibiotics will take care of

it. Otherwise it will need to be drained. She goes for another MRI next

week.

>

> started IVIG on the 28th of Feb. She was in the hosp on IV

antibiotics came home on them but weren't strong enough. she would be fine

for 2-3 days than not be able tow alk again. It took an MRI to figure out

what is going on. Our dr was out of town of course so it took a while to

get things straighten out.

>

> crookfamily@... wrote:

> le,

>

> Thank you so much for sharing 's story with me! That is really

> coincidental that we've had such similar happenings! I'm so sorry

> that actually did have septic arthritis. And I'm SO glad that

> they were able to catch it in time to save his hips!! The doctors

> had told us that if Chad had septic arthritis, that it would entail

> surgery after surgery through the years in doing hip replacements

> because of growth. I know what a scary thing this was for you. They

> were telling us that we didn't have a minute to lose, they had to do

> surgery right away. But the ortho doc that they convinced (very

> unwillingly) to do the surgery, told us the truth about what had

> happened. The ortho doc told us that he was completely against

> putting Chad through the surgery, but that the other docs were

> insisting it had to be done because of his immune deficiency. Since

> the ortho was new in town, the other two docs overrode him and he had

> to do the surgery. Now, the ortho doc has a very thriving practice

> here, he's out from under hospital rule (something they make every

> new doc here do). He's told us since this happened that Chad is the

> only person in this county that he has ever done a hip aspiration on,

> and that he hoped to never do another one. I don't know how our town

> got so lucky to get this man, but he is affiliated with Mayo and

> Houston Clinic and gets called in to work on famous athletes, etc.

> We're thinking that soon, we're going to get him to look into this

> Scoliosis problem with Chad to see if there is anything that can be

> done now about it instead of waiting until it gets worse.

>

> I hope will continue to do well with his IVIG. Bless his heart,

> he's been through it and I really feel for what you went through in

> the younger years with him. I'm so happy to hear that you found

> someone who could diagnose and treat him properly. And I hope that

> you NEVER see septic arthritis rear it's ugly head with him again.

>

> Take care!

>

> , mother of Chad, age 9, " Hypo " , GERD,

> Asthma/Bronchitis, " Allergy King " , Scoliosis, ??IGA Nephropathy and

> Anemia

>

March 21, 2001

WOW your story sounds too familiar.

I had brought to the ped one am. She still had her sinus infection. No

fever nothing. Then 2 hours later had a fever of 104 and couldn't walk. I

called our onc who then set up a bed for us at Albany Medical Ctr Children's

hosp. They confirmed a blood infection (staph). Keep us for a week. White

count sky high which is really unusal for her she runs really low as well as sed

rate. But they sent us home.

I am glad is doing really well now. is better but still in pain and

limping some. Thanks for sharing your story.

daniellepenne@... wrote:

In a message dated 3/20/01 11:37:22 AM Pacific Standard Time,

bojolais_x3@... writes:

> just spent almost a month in the hospital with what started out as a

> blood infection and ended up with a bone infection, fluid in her hip joint

> that had bacteria in it and in her bursea's on both hips. She is home on

> IV antibiotics tobramycin and oxacillin every 6 hours. The orthro and

> infectious disease doctors are hoping that the antibiotics will take care

> of it. Otherwise it will need to be drained. She goes for another MRI

> next week.

>

,

was fighting a sinus infection when he woke up and couldn't walk. There

were no other warnings. He had not yet been diagnosed with Selective

antibody def. We were sent to Stanford (LPCH) after his hip surgery. Our

ped told us we needed to go, and thats were we were diagnosed.

That morning he woke up in exteme pain. And could not move his leg without

screaming. Our ped sent us to an ortho who had blood work done, which

confirmed an infection. He then scheduled an MRI. We went home to wait and

as soon as I walked in the door the ortho called and said get him in the ER

ASAP. We did and they aspirated his hip. They didn't like what they got so

they opened him up and cleaned out the bone and area around it. Thankfully

they got it in time. was in a wheelchair for a couple of months then on

crutches.

4 years later he is on a gymnastic team and can drop into the splits!!!

The doctors told us they believe the sinus infection got into the blood

stream and travelled to the hip joint. We were than referred to Stanford.

At times we have had swollen, hot joints (usually ankle, elbow and knee) It

comes and goes, (maybe once a month). He has been tested for JRA and does

not have it.

We are not worried about it because it always goes away within a 24 hr period.

Well thats the story of s hip.

le Penne

11 selective antibody def., syringomyelia

March 21, 2001