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The parents of the 6-year-old West Texas child who died in a hospital after testing positive for measles shared their story with Children’s Health Defense’s (CHD) Polly Tommey and Brian Hooker, Ph.D., in a live interview recorded Saturday in Seminole, Texas.
The parents of the 6-year-old West Texas child who died in a hospital after testing positive for measles shared their story with Children’s Health Defense’s (CHD) Polly Tommey and Brian Hooker, Ph.D., in a live interview recorded Saturday in Seminole, Texas.
Tommey and Hooker made the trip to Seminole, where the parents live, to see for themselves what was happening in the West Texas measles outbreak. Seminole is in Gaines County where the number of measles cases is highest, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.
The mother of the child who died on Feb. 26 said her last interaction with her daughter involved trying to give her a drink of water.
“I just remember before they wanted to put her on the ventilator that she was very thirsty,” the mother recalled. “Her mouth was all sticky and I wanted to give her water but they didn’t let me.”
On today’s episode of “Good Morning, CHD,” Tommey, CHD.TV program director, and Hooker, CHD’s chief scientific officer, showed the footage from their in-person interview with the parents.
“This is their story,” Tommey said. “This is how they wanted you to hear it from them.”: https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/parents-daughter-death-texas-measles-outbreak-chd-tv/
The link above allows one to read the article of the interview with the parents or click on a link provided on that page to listen to the parents' verbal accounting of the tragic events.
Parents’ four other children recovered swiftly from measles without hospital treatment
The parents went on to share that their four remaining children came down with measles shortly after their 6-year-old died in the hospital.
As The Defender previously reported, Dr. Ben Edwards drove to Seminole to assess and treat the children during the viewing of the deceased child.
Edwards is an integrative medicine family practitioner in Lubbock who runs a private practice serving roughly 2,000 patients.
He confirmed that the four children had measles and gave them cod liver oil — a food-based source of vitamin A — and budesonide, a steroid used to relieve inflammation affecting the airways.
“They had a really good quick recovery,” the mother said.
The father agreed, adding that they got over the measles in just five days from when their spots appeared.
KATHRYN VICKERMAN
STATE ASSISTANT
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