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The miss was a pupil astatine Black Mountain Primary School successful westbound Belfast
By Marie-Louise Connolly
BBC News NI Health Correspondent
A miss who attended a Belfast superior schoolhouse which reported a terrible lawsuit of the bacterial corruption strep A has died, BBC News NI understands.
The five-year-old became severely sick past week and was treated astatine the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children.
On Friday the Public Health Agency sent a missive to parents of P1 to P3 children astatine Black Mountain Primary School.
It said 1 of its pupils was diagnosed with a terrible signifier of strep A.
Children were asked to be a session to beryllium seen by a doc and person a preventative people of antibiotics.
BBC News NI understands the miss had been treated successful intensive attraction but passed distant connected Monday.
Strep A tin origin a scope of illnesses. Most cases are mild - a sore pharynx oregon a tegument corruption that tin beryllium easy treated with antibiotics.
Deaths from strep A are rare.
Some radical make scarlet fever, which causes a tegument rash (that feels similar sandpaper) and flu-like symptoms, including a precocious temperature.
Very rarely, strep A tin origin thing called invasive radical A streptococcal corruption oregon iGAS, which tin beryllium deadly.
Invasive illness happens erstwhile the bacteria get past your body's immune defences.
Northern Ireland is presently dealing with an outbreak of scarlet fever among schoolhouse children.
The Public Health Agency is asking parents to beryllium vigilant.
BBC News NI understands the authorities are moving intimately with those schools that are affected.
Community groups are besides being contacted astir affected children who whitethorn person utilized their facilities.
Warning signs
Of those, 7 were successful England and the different was a seven-year-old successful Wales.
Warning signs of invasive illness include:
- fever (a precocious somesthesia supra 38C)
- severe musculus aches
Urgent, aboriginal aesculapian assistance is essential.
The UKHSA advises that anyone with a precocious fever, terrible musculus aches, symptom successful 1 country of the assemblage and unexplained vomiting oregon diarrhoea should question aesculapian assistance immediately.
Strep A tin beryllium treated with antibiotics.
What should parents do?
As a parent, if you consciousness that your kid seems earnestly unwell, you should spot your ain judgement. Contact your GP if:
- your kid is getting worse
- your kid is feeding oregon eating overmuch little than normal
- your kid has had a adust nappy for 12 hours oregon much oregon shows different signs of dehydration
- your babe is nether 3 months aged and has a somesthesia of 38°C, oregon is older than 3 months and has a somesthesia of 39°C oregon higher
- your babe feels hotter than accustomed erstwhile you interaction their backmost oregon chest, oregon feels sweaty
- your kid is precise bushed oregon irritable
Call 999 oregon spell to A&E if:
- your kid is having trouble breathing - you whitethorn announcement grunting noises oregon their tummy sucking nether their ribs
- there are pauses erstwhile your kid breathes
- your child's skin, lingua oregon lips are blue
- your kid is floppy and volition not aftermath up oregon enactment awake
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