Georgia teen John Chelcy was in a coma for two days and was put on dialysis to repair his kidneys
“That’s when they told us his kidneys shut down,” she added to Fox5.
Doctors put John into a medically-induced coma for two days and on dialysis to repair his kidneys. John also developed pneumonia in his right lung during his hospital stay.After over three weeks in the hospital, John is expected to go home soon, and LaToya said she’ll make sure he gets a flu shot as soon as possible.
“When he leaves the hospital, we’re going to get a flu shot. If his body can take it,” she told Fox5. “If not, when it’s time to get flu shots again, he will be first in line to get a flu shot!”with a strain of influenza B — the one John had — and while the flu vaccine for this season is “not ideally matched” to the strain, it’s still important to get the shot.
“There are four components in the vaccine, with two influenza A antigens and two influenza B antigens,” Richard J. Webby, Ph.D., a researcher with the Department of Infectious Disease at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, previously told PEOPLE. “We’re having an early flu B season, and last year with four different strains. So if that happens again it may well be with a virus that’s better matched with the vaccine.
“It does reduce your chances of catching it, and if you do get sick, of getting very severely affected by the virus,” he said. “When we get vaccinated we make a lot of antibodies that will fight against the virus.”“Just to know that I could have lost my child, my firstborn, just because of the flu,” she told Fox5. “It’s scary. It is real scary.”
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