Amber Dean's son Bobby was hospitalized for pediatric multi-system inflammatory syndrome
The illness, currently called pediatric multi-system inflammatory syndrome, presents similarly to Kawasaki disease, a rare but treatable condition that causes inflammation in blood vessels. It seems to affect the heart of those who may have been infected with COVID-19 but does not include theAmber recalled her son's painful struggle with the syndrome, telling the outlet that it started out as "nothing major," but quickly took a turn for the worse.
"At first...it seemed like a tummy bug, like he ate something that didn’t agree with him,” Amber, who lives with her husband and three young children in Hornell, said. “But by the next day, he couldn’t keep anything down and his belly hurt so bad he couldn’t sit up.”PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories
During their first visit to a local hospital emergency room, doctors initially suspected an appendix infection and sent the family home with instructions to see Bobby's pediatrician. Amber said they immediately called the doctor who performed a coronavirus test to see if the boy was suffering from the mysterious illness, but the results would take 24 hours. That same night Bobby's condition worsened.His fever had spiked, his heart was racing, his abdomen was swollen and he was severely dehydrated, his mother recalled. That's when her husband Michael Dean, decided to drive their son to Golisano Children’s Hospital in Rochester, 90 minutes away.
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