Mariano Gaik Aldrovandi
07/15/2021 21:13
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 07/15/2021 9:21 PM
This is the story that Cintya Fonteina (42) and Daniel Arias (50) would never have wanted to tell. But they do it so that no other family goes through the same thing. Julieta, her
8-year-old
daughter
, had covid, was
hospitalized for nine days in intensive care and died
. The girl had no comorbidities and had already been discharged after her entire family had the virus. Now the couple is asking for vaccination for boys and more information about how Covid impacts boys.
It all started on June 7 with some
spots on
Juliet's
skin
that appeared on her body.
On the chest, on the sides of the armpits, on the legs and neck.
"Buy him Caladryl, that's an allergic condition," his family pediatrician told him, to whom Cintya sent photos of the rash.
There is a detail.
The doctor knew that the whole family
had had coronavirus a
few weeks ago.
Cintya went to get a swab at a Prompt Attention Unit (UPA) in Lanús, the city where they live, and received her positive Covid result on May 26.
Automatically the whole family was given as infected, Daniel, Julieta and Selena, his other 16-year-old daughter.
But
none of them were swabbed.
On May 29, her husband and the oldest of the girls began with symptoms.
Fever and dry cough.
Daniel was the one who suffered the worst - he had a fever for 12 days - but none of them were hospitalized.
Julieta, on the other hand,
went through isolation without symptoms
until the entire group was discharged.
"We touched the sky with our hands that came out of that and the girls had no complications," says Daniel and continues: "We never imagined what came next."
Cintya, Selena, Julieta and Daniel, a family that suffered the Covid tragedy with the loss of their youngest daughter.
On the 18th came the episode of the spots on Juliet's skin.
"They came out like pimples," says Cintya.
The parents followed the pediatrician's recommendation and bought the baby cream.
“We put it on him every four hours, like he told me.
After three or four days it
disappeared without any other symptoms
.
We were like it was a rash, an allergic state and it went away ”, says the woman.
Twenty days later, Julieta started with
gastrointestinal upset
and a very high fever.
It reached
39 ° 7
.
“We ran with my husband to the guard.
'Something is happening,' we thought, ”Cintya recalls.
That Tuesday June 28, when they entered the
Hospital Evita de Lanús
, Julieta had a swab and a chest X-ray.
"The doctor told us that he had
a pneumonia
like
a pinpoint
, that if it was not treated it could get worse and get bigger," says the mother.
The indication was amoxicillin 750 every 8 hours but in case of vomiting they should return to the watch.
After the second dose of the medicine, on Wednesday morning, Julieta began to vomit.
“We went to the hospital again and they wanted to send her home to me.
'No, the antibiotic has to do the job,' they said.
I didn't want to take her because I
knew I was going to have to come back,
”says Cintya.
Julieta Arias (8) with her godmother Angélica.
The girl had her birthday on June 18.
They took blood and urine samples from the girl and were told that the results would take about two hours.
During this time, Julieta's condition worsened, with diarrhea and vomiting.
The family returned to the hospital to look for the results and Julieta was admitted.
Cintya showed the doctor who received the X-ray with the spot on her daughter's lung.
“He said,
'This is insignificant,'
” the woman recalls.
“They took out the antibiotics and began to do studies for what he had in his stomach and the fever.
They gave him like ten serums ”, he says.
At one point, Cintya remembered the
rash on her skin
that Juliet had developed ten days ago.
“When I show the photo to the doctor, she tells me:
'That's Covid
.'
I couldn't understand it.
It had been a month since we had the virus and the best was coming, "he recalls.
On Thursday the results of the swab arrived that
confirmed the positive case
.
“It was like this until Sunday morning.
That day, right after the doctor came to check on her, my daughter told me: 'Mommy, I can't breathe.'
Cintya went out to look for the doctor and Julieta was transferred to intermediate therapy.
"He's with pneumonia," they told him.
Julieta's parents are very indignant because on Wednesday they were the first to notice about the stain on the lungs that could be seen on the plaque and they ignored them.
“This leads you to have
many doubts about how she was treated
, if they gave her the corresponding attention, take out the antibiotics that was what they gave her for that little spot on her lung.
They told us: 'We are worried about gastroenteritis, diarrhea, high fever,' "says Daniel.
On Monday the situation became even more distressing.
“The pulmonologist came and said, 'I need to talk to you.
We have to intubate your daughter. '
The oxygen was not working, she had a lot of tachycardia and it did not lower her temperature, ”says the mother.
That day, Cintya said goodbye to her daughter before she was put into a drug coma.
“We ask for prayer chains in many groups.
It was something that we never imagined could touch us, ”says Cintya.
“At the hospital they told us that the parties always passed at noon.
We asked if we could call to ask how she is and on Tuesday noon the doctor called me to tell me that
the painting was delicate
, that he was going to make an exception so that we could go to see it and they let us pass one by one ”, says Daniel.
The couple returned on Wednesday and were struck by Thursday that at 18 they still had not received any part.
"So we went and a doctor treated us, he told us that they had a lot of work, that they didn't even have time to have lunch and that they were waiting for a drug from La Plata that did not arrive," recalls Julieta's father.
The saddest day
At 6 in the morning on Friday, July 9, Daniel received a call from the hospital in which they were told that the girl had a "very severe" condition and "could not tolerate the medication."
They asked them to stay close just in case.
“At 11 o'clock they called me again to tell me that Julieta had
a cerebral arrest
and that it was irreversible, that we had to wait for her heart to stop beating.
It was a bucket of cold water.
That already destabilized us all here, ”he recalls, through tears.
His daughter passed away an hour later.
The Covid caused Julieta an infection in all her vital organs: lungs, heart, liver, which is called
"multisystemic inflammatory syndrome".
“They tell us that children do not get sick and it was a lie.
If we had known about the spots before, this would be all very different.
We are left in the middle, we are missing another half, which is my little daughter, ”says Cintya.
The family maintains that it would be "important" to be able to
"vaccinate all children against Covid."
And they want the case to serve to spread that
spots on the skin
are one of the symptoms of Covid.
“If you have small children and you see some strange pimples on your body, go see what is happening.
The rash is a symptom and we are here to find out now.
The GP should have told us, especially knowing that we had coronavirus ”, they say.
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