A 3 year old girl had hallucinations and was diagnosed with a strange illness

Grace Smolinski was the same as any other 3-year-old girl. I could already say complete sentences and I knew all the songs in the movie Moanawho has been singing all day in the rooms of his house. However, he began to have brief crises.

Several weeks later, one of them lasted seven minutes and came back to himself without being able to speak or walk. As a result, her parents took her urgently to the hospital to find out what was wrong. "In the first hours of hospitalization, whenever I could say fewer things, he used to sing and tell complete stories, but at that time he was not even able to say "Moana", explained his mother, Erin Smolinski, to foreign media.

The state of Grace has worsened until that To believe that there was someone else in the room, a person who terrified her. "I was very scared, I wondered what I was seeing, but the nurses explained that I was hallucinating," recalls the woman.

The doctors finally found where the cause of these symptoms was: the baby had autoimmune encephalitis. This condition resulted in her cardiopulmonary arrest and she was transferred to the intensive care unit, where she had another serious attack. "I broke down while I saw 20 people working on it – I will never forget that they had to intubate everything to help," Erin confessed.

Autoimmune encephalitis consists of a group of conditions that occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy brain cellsaccording to Information Center on Genetic Diseases and Rare Diseases the United States. Among the disorders it causes, include neurological and psychiatric disorders (problems of memory and cognition, convulsions, impaired balance, loss of speech or sight, psychosis, aggression and panic attacks).

This pathology usually occurs sporadically and in people with no family history. Among the treatments are immunosuppressive treatments and, if the case is badociated with the presence of cancer, removal of the tumor. Early diagnosis is effective in reducing the risk of long-term complications and relapses. If it is not treated, it can lead to death.

In Grace's case, after two weeks of hospitalization, she was able to return home with her parents and two brothers. He also returned to kindergarten. According to a statement from the clinic, the baby has been immunosuppressed, which included six months of chemotherapy, rehabilitation, steroids and medication to stop the seizures. Thanks to that, the little girl has improved remarkably and quickly. "He pbaded not being able to walk and run in his scooter in a fortnight, "said Erin.

Currently, the treatment is largely completed. His chances of relapse are in the range of 20%, so he continues regularly with visits to the institution. Whatever the case may be, your mother says that They did not notice any more cognitive problems and the baby learned to walk and talk again. In the latter, her 4 and 1 year old brothers were a great help: "They became constant companions that pushed Grace every day to its limits. may have, "concluded the woman.