Girl paralyzed by flu complication which mum spotted when she noticed her tiptoeing

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A little girl was temporarily paralyzed after rare flu complication which mum spotted when she noticed she was tiptoeing.  Aurora Burden-Schott, five, appeared to be recovering from the flu when she started to complain of muscle pains.  Her mum, Kota, 27, from Lima, Ohio, US noticed she was tiptoeing around and consulted a paediatrician.  The little girl spent three days in hospital being pumped with fluids and was only able to walk again after two days - after contracting a complication of the flu - rhabdomyolysis.  Rhabdomyolysis is a serious medical condition that occurs when damaged muscles release proteins and electrolytes into the bloodstream.   Aurora is now regaining strength and Kota wants to raise awareness of the symptoms of this life-threatening complication.

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00:50In my video, I had said that it's a rare side effect of the flu.

01:19Typically this is not a normal thing that people get after having the flu.

01:24Can it happen?

01:25Yes, of course, but typically this isn't something that you need to look at or worry about, but

01:31unfortunately with the flu that's going around right now, this is becoming really, really,

01:37really common.

01:38For my daughter, personally, she had literally just went through a surgery a week and a half

01:47before she ended up getting the flu.

01:51Not only was her immune system compromised because of her surgery, but with having her

01:55tonsils and adenoids taken out, she hadn't eaten any real food or a real meal in several

02:03days because of her healing.

02:06And because her body didn't have the amount of energy that it needed, she then had this

02:16side effect from the flu.

02:18Don't get it twisted.

02:19This can't happen without having a surgery a week before.

02:25I just think in my mom brain that this is why it happened to her.

02:33I'm very thankful that I saw another video about this, actually a couple days before

02:40this happened to my daughter, because when I started noticing that she was struggling

02:47to walk that morning, I told my husband, I don't like the way that this looks.

02:53I just saw a video on TikTok of another mom whose kid was going through this.

02:59I was like, so this is worrying me.

03:01Everyone in my family kept telling me, it's fine, it's just leg pain, it's just muscle

03:07pain.

03:09Make sure she's drinking a lot of water, blah, blah, blah.

03:11And I'm like, she is drinking a lot of water, but she's not eating.

03:14She hadn't eaten in three days because her throat was so raw from her surgery and from

03:20vomiting from having the flu that her thought of eating was out the window.

03:27So I gave her an Epsom salt bath, hoping that that would relax her muscles.

03:33We laid down for a nap because she was tired.

03:36I was tired.

03:38We have had a lot going on with just being sick and being in and out of doctor's appointments.

03:43And we woke up and her legs were not functioning.

03:48And that's when I knew something's not right.

03:52She has to go get checked out.

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