Healthy boy, 8, went from having no symptoms to being on a ventilator fighting for life within 5 days
A HEALTHY young boy in New York City went from having no symptoms to being on a ventilator after suffering cardiac arrest and heart failure within days.
Jayden Hardowar, eight, had developed a fever and was suffering from diarrhea in late April, .
Jayden’s fever broke in a few days, but his father, Roup, told the news outlet that the boy didn’t get better.
“His body strength started to go down, he started to become a little bit weak,” Roup said.
“We followed up with his pediatrician, and they thought that he would come around, maybe because he wasn’t eating a lot.”
"None of us — six of us in the home: two adults, four kids — none of us had been sick,” the boy’s father told WNBC of the family, who lives in Queens.
The symptoms, according to health officials, are similar to toxic shock syndrome, .
The city’s health department said on Monday that 15 such cases have been identified in the city.
Jayden’s mom said: “The fact that we don’t know enough is very scary. It’s a moment I don’t ever want to relive or would like any parent to experience.”
“He was a little kid, lying in bed with his mom — and then he went into cardiac arrest,” the boy’s dad said. “A cardiac arrest could have been avoided if we were in the hospital earlier and (caught) it earlier.”