Virginia dies of contracted meningitis in an unvaccinated person

CHESTERFIELD, Virginia –

One family urges everyone to keep up-to-date on vaccinations after losing their child to meningitis.

Killy Schultz, four months old, dies on June 30, 24 hours after

"He had just eaten his bottle for the afternoon, he was a little hot, but we thought that it would was a hot day so bring it home and let it cool, said Killy's mother, Alex Dempsey, to WTVR-TV

They gave him some Tylenol and when that did not work , they decided to have it examined at the St. Mary's Hospital Emergency Room.

and two days after Killy received her 4-month vaccinations, Dempsey and her fiance Gabriel Schultz were informed that their baby had most likely contracted meningitis, an inflammation of the protective membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord.

"By the time they said meningitis, I knew that there was a very strong possibility that we were going to lose it," Dempsey explained. "They told us that we were going to knock on the window if it was going to happen or not, but since he was only four months old, he did not really have an immune system to help us that. "

blue, his heartbeat dropped, and they started doing CPR and after 10 minutes of CPR, you did not come back from there, so we had to tell them to stop, said Dempsey. "After 10 minutes of CPR adults do not come back from that, he was brain dead."

Twenty-four hours after Killy's first symptom, he took his last breath.

"He was so swollen and purple, and it did not really look like him anymore, but I still hold him to tell him how beautiful he was, and he was much more than I deserved, and I told him how much he had fought, and that we were Dempsey said that health authorities believe that Killy contracted the disease of an unvaccinated person.

"If anything comes out, we want people to know that vaccination can prevent such things. . He was just a baby, so he really was not very lucky, "said Dempsey