Mum warns 'trust your instincts' after toddler's ear infection turns out to be Strep A
dailyrecord.co.ukA Lochmaben mum took her three-year-old son to the doctor thinking he had an ear infection that turned out to be Strep A. Kerry Coupland said she “dreads to think what the outcome could have been” if she hadn’t taken little Keyan Cochrane to the GP.
She is now warning other parents if they have “any doubts whatsoever”, to phone health services for advice. At least 16 children in the UK have died since September because of the disease following outbreaks across the country.
Streptococcus A - or Strep A - is a bacterial infection of the throat or skin which can sometimes cause scarlet fever.Kerry, 43, said: “I got a phone call from the nursery last Thursday to say I had to pick Keyan up because he was constantly shivering despite having on a jacket and being wrapped in a blanket.
I kept him off the next day as a precaution and kept an eye on him over the weekend but there didn’t seem to be anything to worry about.“By the Monday, his ears were weeping with a lot of gunk coming out of them so I took him to the doctor who had one look at him and said I should take him to hospital.
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