Parents issue a warning after their baby dies of meningitis

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. – A Virginia family has gone from changing diapers to planning the funeral of the child in the space of almost 24 hours. Now they send a warning to all parents to make sure their children are aware of their vaccinations.

Killy Schultz suffered a rash and a fever on her way back from the daycare, reported WTVR. His mother, Alex Dempsey, said her son was hot, but she attributed it to the hot weather. But when a dose of Tylenol did not work, she took her 4-month-old son to an emergency room in the area. Every hour, Killy's health deteriorated, forcing him to finally be admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit.

He was diagnosed with meningitis, reported WTVR. It was only two days after he had had his most recent vaccinations.

Doctors prepared Dempsey and his fiancée, Gabriel Schultz, for the worst and that the baby had no immune system ready to fight the disease, reported WTVR.

Then his heart rate dropped. The doctors started CPR

"Suddenly, his heartbeat dropped, and they started doing CPR and after 10 minutes of CPR, you do not come back from there, so we had to tell them 39, stop ". Dempsey told WTVR. "After 10 minutes of CPR adults do not come back from that." He was brain dead. "

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The Virginia Department of Health studies how Killy contracted the disease and all those who came into contact with the baby, including other children at the daycare, received a According to the WTVR, the health department estimates that an unvaccinated person has had the disease and has been diagnosed with it. transmitted to Killy

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"If something comes out, we want people to be aware that vaccinations can prevent such things.Vaccines are not just for children, they are also for he was just a baby, so he really had no chance. " Dempsey told WTVR.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that all pre-adolescents and adolescents receive a meningococcal vaccine, with the first vaccination to come. 11 years or 12 years old, and a reminder at age 16

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