Bathurst mother warns of risk of COVID-19 for kids after 4-year-old rushed to hospital
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A Bathurst mother wants people to know the risk of COVID-19 for children is real after one of her three infected young boys was recently rushed to the hospital, convulsing, unconscious and blue from a fever-induced seizure.
Kayla Guitar realizes what happened to four-year-old Luca is not the norm, but says it's "frustrating" to hear people talk about COVID as "just a little cold."
"Even if it's fine for some people, it's not fine for everyone."
She thought her son was dying.
It was traumatic for the entire family, said Guitar, and she hopes to raise awareness about the seizures he suffered to hopefully spare others some of the terror.
It all started the evening of April 8, when Luca woke with a fever. Guitar gave him ibuprofen, but by the next morning his temperature started to rise again and he was "acting a little bit weird."
His brother Louis, 6, who is vaccinated against COVID-19 but tested positive for the virus the morning of April 7, had also had a fever and general malaise.
And Luca's twin Léo seemed sicker than both of them.
Guitar had settled all three of them in front of the TV, when Luca suddenly started convulsing.
"His arms just shot up and got really tense, and he started making weird noises. So I screamed out to my husband, who was upstairs, to quickly come down."
"I told him, 'You have to call 911 … I don't know what's going on.'"
Luca's "little lips were blue. And the rest of him started going blue as well, and he was completely unconscious."
She laid him on a bed and her husband, who works in health care, was about to start cardiopulmonary resuscitation when he realized Luca was breathing again.
An ambulance arrived within about 15 minutes. The paramedics tested Luca for COVID and he was positive.
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