NHS NORTH CENTRAL LONDON LONDON Integrated Care Board (ICB) Pharmaceutical Planning and Operation, PrescRIBING Advisor-Pharmaceutical Planning and Operation, and Saijal Ladd shares 42-year-old measles experience and share this serious effect on her health.
We share her story as part of London’s ‘Reasons for Vaccination’ campaigns, emphasize the importance of receiving vaccinations, and that it is not too late to follow it.
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On May 19, 2016, I was admitted to Barnet General Hospital with measles.
I started to feel bad a few days ago with my throat and temperature, but I didn’t think it was serious, so I started my own management routine to take paracetamol and warm body fluids.
But despite taking drugs, my condition worsened and the temperature increased. On the night of May 18, I felt that I was not really good at diarrhea, fever and generalized weaknesses, and I found a rash all the next morning.
‘The rash looked like measles’
Because I am a pharmacist, I knew it was not a cold or flu, and soon realized that the rash was all other symptoms that looked like measles.
I was very bad so far, so I called 999 around 7 am. The ambulance crew arrived within an hour and completely evaluated my condition and moved me to the hospital. I was arranged in isolated state after being recognized, at this point I was vomiting.
My family received information, but when they arrived, I couldn’t talk to them because my voice was influenced by vomiting!
Until late afternoon, I was assigned a bed, but I was terrible and extremely sleepy in all the drugs I received, and I didn’t remember much of what happened after that. I also started the fluid through water droplets.
That night, some organs began to fail, including liver, kidneys and lungs. I woke up at some point and evaluated whether to get intensive care by visiting the ICU consultant standing next to the bed.
‘A family later told me how to lose me at night.’
I don’t remember what happened afterwards, but when I woke up the next morning, I was still in the ward. A family later said at night that they could not be sure if they lost me almost lost and clinic would go through the morning.
I heard that I was so grateful for waking and began to stabilize. Now it was a standby game to make sure that the immune system of my body can fight against this virus. I also thank you for giving my body a healthy and healthy life because my body allows me to fight measles virus.
A week after a week in the hospital, I was finally discharged.
But my GP had to monitor me closely for the next few weeks, but it took about two to three months to return to the normal level of activity as my muscles began to be wasteful due to lack of activity. I couldn’t walk up to a few meters without breathing, and sometimes I could wake up in the middle of the night as the sugar level dropped.
All of these experiences were very scary, and I urge all parents to go through their children’s vaccination, so that they don’t have to go through their adults.
Looking back, I am so grateful that I am alive and I feel like my life gave me a second chance!
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