Respiratory Rally

Sebi ‘bubble boy’ post-transplant sinus infection

SCIDS or ‘bubbleboy’ disease symptoms usually appear in the first few months of life. Because the immune system cannot protect the baby’s body, babies with the disorder tend to get one infection after another. Some of these bacterial infections may be life-threatening, including pneumonia (lung infection), meningitis (brain infection), and sepsis (blood infection).
To make matters worse, SCID patients often don’t respond to the antibiotics used to treat bacterial infections. They may suffer more frequently from ear infections, sinus infections, a chronic cough, and rashes on the skin.
Early diagnosis of SCID is very important, because without quick treatment, children with the disease aren’t likely to live past age 2.

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