An eight-year-old girl died of sepsis hours after being sent home from the GP for a second time – with her parents warned that their local hospital was full. After her worried parents took her to their GP surgery twice, and despite showing symptoms of group A strep, which can cause fatal infections, Mia Glynn was eventually prescribed antibiotics. Her parents were also warned that if they insisted on taking her to their local hospital, she would just be left waiting in a corridor.
But Mia died the next day after developing sepsis – which strikes when an infection sparks a violent immune response in the body. Mia’s parents, Soron, 39, and Katie, 37, first took her to the GP as she had been vomiting, had a severe headache and had been complaining of a sore throat. By the time of the second visit, she had not eaten properly for a further three days, had a raised heart rate and was sleepy.
Her mother and father queried whether she had group A strep. However, a doctor advised them to give Mia fluids and ibuprofen and not to start the antibiotics until Mia went to bed. The schoolgirl, who continued to feel unwell, woke in the early hours of the next morning.
She was disorientated, had rashes on her arms and legs and blue lips, and complained she was hot but was cold to touch. Her parents, of Biddulph, Staffordshire, called an ambulance just after 3am on December 9, 2022. Paramedics took her to hospital, where she was given intravenous fluids and antibiotics.
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