An Aussie musician and former X-Issue contestant is warning different dad and mom after her child turned ailing with a life-threatening illness.
Joanne Hadjia — recognized professionally as Joey Dija — revealed her six-month-old son Axe began creating fevers earlier than breaking out in a extreme rash.
The 34-year-old — who has two units of twins — rushed little Axe to the hospital however was despatched residence by medical doctors.
“No mother or father ever expects their child to get a life-threatening sickness nevertheless it did occur to us and I need to unfold consciousness,” Dija mentioned.
“My son Axe simply saved getting these fevers, we went to pressing care when he developed a reasonably important rash however they despatched us residence and simply mentioned to control it.
“He saved getting worse and at one level he began to get swollen and I rushed him to the ER. . .they took him in instantly and began operating assessments.”
Axe underwent blood assessments, ultrasounds and coronary heart scans however all outcomes confirmed nothing was mistaken.
Dija mentioned it took 4 totally different medical doctors and her personal analysis to get a analysis.
“I saved saying, ‘I’m not a paranoid mum however one thing feels mistaken, his siblings should not sick’.
“It was his second evening in hospital and I used to be residence researching like loopy and I discovered it on ChatGPT, I advised my husband ‘inform (the medical doctors) Kawasaki illness.’”
The medical doctors confirmed her suspicions and identified Axe with the illness.
Kawasaki illness causes irritation within the partitions of blood vessels and impacts the guts arteries in kids. It’s not recognized what causes the illness however it’s not contagious.
With out remedy, Kawasaki illness could cause lasting injury to coronary heart arteries and may generally even be deadly.
Dija needs different dad and mom to concentrate on the signs which might embody a rash on the principle a part of the physique or within the genital space, enlarged lymph nodes within the neck, crimson eyes, cracked lips, swollen tongue, palms or toes.
Dija confirmed Axe’s situation improved after 12 hours of remedy and he now has three months of coronary heart verify ups.
