'Healthy' girl, 15, died from series of heart attacks after being sent home from hospital with 'flu'
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 8:34 AM on 02nd January
A girl of 15 died on Christmas Eve from a series of heart attacks just days after begging doctors to keep her in hospital because she felt so ill.
Amy Carter lost a stone in weight over a week after initially falling sick with flu-like symptoms at the start of December.
艾米卡特在12月開始有類似流感的症狀後初步不適，在多過一個星期時間體重失去一石(十六磅？)。
However, she was discharged from hospital after tests showed she was suffering from glandular fever.
然而，測試顯示她患有腺熱，她仍被安排出院。
Tragic: Amy Carter, pictured the day she was released from Worcestershire Royal Hospital. She died on Christmas Eve from a series of heart attacks days after begging doctors to keep her there because she felt so ill
悲劇：影相當天艾米卡特由Worcester郡皇家醫院出院，她在聖誕前夕經過一系列心髒病發後死去，她曾乞求醫生給她留低因為她感到很病
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Richard and Jacqueline Carter said their daughter had asked a doctor at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital in Worcester: 'Am I going to die?'
They said the doctor replied: 'Of course not, don't be silly it's a nasty illness but it's certainly not life-threatening.'
She was discharged on December 21, two days after she was admitted, and told to take paracetamol and have plenty of rest.
But the next day, Amy was struggling to breathe and was taken to an out-of-hours care centre where a doctor sent her away with instructions to drink lots of fluid.
On the morning of Christmas Eve, her worried parents called their GP, who said Amy's condition was 'critical' and called an ambulance. Despite being given five adrenalin shots into her heart – one for each cardiac arrest – she died just hours later in hospital.
Mrs Carter, 48, from Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire said: 'I'm not medically trained but even I could tell she was seriously ill.
'She hadn't eaten for weeks and lost more than a stone.
'We're extremely bitter and feel we have been let down. Her organs basically all failed one by one and her heart was the last to go.
'She was a healthy girl who should never have died.'
Mr Carter, 43, said: 'Amy was very frightened and really did not want to be moved out of hospital. Her condition was deteriorating every day. She knew something was wrong but the doctors refused to listen to her.'
When Amy first fell ill around four weeks ago, her parents, who both run pet shops, took her to the care centre attached to their nearest hospital in Kidderminster.
A doctor said she had sinusitis – an inflammatory condition of the sinuses – and sent Amy home with a one-week course of antibiotics.
Days later her eyes swelled up and Amy was taken to her GP, who said she was suffering an allergic reaction and gave her antihistamines.
Over the next few nights the teenager, who has a sister, Sam, 17, and brother, Ben, 24, was unable to keep any food down and developed thrush on her tongue, which was caused by the antibiotics.
She went back to her GP who said she had a bacterial infection at the back of her throat and she was transferred to the hospital on December 19, where tests revealed she had glandular fever.
Glandular fever is a type of viral infection that can cause fever, swollen glands, sore throat and fatigue.
Most patients recover without treatment, but in some cases the infection can spread to other parts of the body, causing more serious secondary infections such as pneumonia, meningitis or inflammation of the heart.
The Carters are waiting for the results of tests to discover what happened to their daughter. An inquest has been opened.
Her funeral will take place on January 15, with a memorial service on January 24, which would have been her 16th birthday.
A spokesman for Worcestershire Royal Hospital said: 'The case has gone to the coroner so we have no further comment at this time.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1239868/Healthy-girl-15-died-series-heart-attacks-sent-home-hospital-flu.html
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