The complaint of a Canarian father. Dani tells the story of his son who has gone through very critical moments in which he almost lost his life and denounces that this is caused by spills in a Cabezo El Médano beach, in Tenerife. “That day I taught him to catch waves,” narrates the parent.
An unforgettable experience for the father, if not for “the state of the sea, which smelled like shit, basically”keep going.
That day little Daniel swallowed a lot of water and as a result caught a bacterium of “unknown” originwhich produced an Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia, according to the father of the child who is now 6 years old but at that time was three years old.
On February 4, 2020, he had to enter the Candelaria Hospital.
“He ended up with such low levels of hemoglobin in his body that for one reason or another, I don’t know why exactly, it is produced by a thrombus that ends up in the brain causing a large strokeso wide, that a decompressive craniotomy had to be performed, where they removed almost half of the skull bone of his little head”, narrates the father.
Craniotomy and other operations
The parent thanks the health personnel for saving his son and classifies the medical intervention as a clinical miracle “That a 3-and-a-half-year-old boy could survive an operation of these dimensions, but he did, our fighting lion, our hero,” he adds.
After going through this tough operation, Dani Jr. he was hospitalized for 103 days with many other operations, “where we watched over his life on 5 occasions, with a happy ending, where we had to put an end to his story in another country,” adds the father.
Due to this story in which his son, Daniel, almost lost his life –@ranger_tfs– uses social networks to denounce and raise awareness about the discharges in Canarian waters since “polluted waters not only produce discomfort, diarrhoea, hepatitis, allergic reactions… In one of every 1,000 people, as was the case with my son, things get complicated and can go beyond a simple admission to hospital.”
Hemolytic uremic syndrome
The hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS)) is a serious condition that can occur when the small blood vessels in the kidneys become damaged and inflamed. This damage can cause clots to form in the blood vessels. The clots clog the kidneys’ filtering system and cause kidney failure, which can be fatal, according to medical sources.
Anyone can get it, but it is more common in young children. In most cases, it is caused by infection with certain strains of the bacteria Escherichia coli (E. coli). The first symptom is diarrhea that lasts for several days and is often bloody.
Hemolytic uremic syndrome can also be caused by other infections, certain medications, or conditions such as pregnancy, cancer, or an autoimmune disease.
All forms of hemolytic uremic syndrome, regardless of cause, damage blood vessels. This damage causes red blood cells to break down, causing anemia, blood clots to form in the blood vessels, and kidney damage.
According to medical sources, the signs and symptoms of these changes include the following: pale colorationincluding loss of pink color in the cheeks and inside the lower eyelids; extreme fatigue; shortness of breath tendency to bruise or unexplained bruises; unusual bleedingsuch as bleeding from the nose and mouth; decreased urination; blood in the urine; swelling (oedema) of the legs, hefeet or ankles, and less often on the face, hands, feet, or entire body; confusion, seizures or stroke or high blood pressure.
