Leah Rogers was in Mallorca with friends in May. For the first time she had gone on vacation alone, without her parents. When she returned to her home in Wales, the 17-year-old felt unwell and went to the doctor. The girl died just a few weeks later. The “Mirror” reports on this.
The first diagnosis of the doctors was actually harmless. Based on the symptoms, Rogers was diagnosed with tonsillitis, which she was told to treat with antibiotics. But the condition of the 17-year-old does not improve as a result, but gets worse.
The doctors investigate and realize that it can’t just be tonsillitis. Rogers actually suffers from hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis, a rare immune disorder. Cells that actually eliminate foreign cells, viruses, bacteria and germs in the body suddenly attack their own healthy cells.
The disease Rogers suffered from is so rare that there aren’t even numbers on how many people suffer from it around the world. If left untreated, this leads to death within a few weeks – as with the 17-year-old.
While the “Mirror” believed that the doctors had misdiagnosed tonsillitis, Dr. Christoph Specht via RTL that this was the trigger for the outbreak of hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis. When the doctors treating him realized that Rogers wasn’t just suffering from tonsillitis, it was too late for them. On June 7th she dies of organ failure.
The doctors could have prevented that, Specht believes. If Rogers’ doctors had realized that the antibiotic for the tonsillitis was not working, they would have given her cortisone. “If you had known that early on, she could have survived.”
That’s probably the worst thing for the family of the 17-year-olds. “We just can’t believe it – we think this is just a bad dream that we’ll wake up from one day and she’ll be back,” father Hugh Rogers told The Mirror. In the meantime, the family has started a fundraiser to better research the disease and protect other sufferers from it.
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