'Time is critical.'
In this photo provided by Brittany Randall, Randall, left, and her daughter, Kamberlyn Bowler, pose for a selfie photo in Grand Junction, Colo., in the summer of 2024. GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - A 15-year-old high school freshman is hospitalized with severe complications of food poisoning after eating McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburgers three times in the weeks before a deadly E. coli outbreak was detected.
The ordeal left Kamberlyn's mother, Brittany Randall, worried about her daughter's health and shaken at the idea that a burger could potentially cause so much harm. That bacteria produces a dangerous toxin that can cause a severe kidney disease complication known as hemolytic uremic syndrome, according to medical experts. Many children are hospitalized for weeks and some go on to require kidney transplants, said Dr. Myda Khalid, a kidney specialist at Riley Hospital for Children in Indiana who is not involved in Kamberlyn's care.
"I couldn't get out of bed," she recalled. "I couldn't eat. I couldn't drink. I was surviving on Popsicles. I felt like crap."
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