Girl, 8, died from sepsis after being sent home twice by GP surgery

An eight-year-old miss died of sepsis hours aft being sent location doubly by a GP surgery.

Mia Glynn’s mum Katie, 37, initially took her girl to the country aft she began vomiting and complaining of a headache and sore throat.

A caregiver practitioner said Mia’s symptoms were viral and advised Katie to springiness the youngster fluids and paracetamol.

By the clip Katie took her backmost a 2nd clip immoderate 4 hours later, Mia present had a raised bosom rate, reduced urine output and was sleepy.

Katie, of Biddulph, Staffordshire, asked whether she had the corruption Group A Strep, which was prevalent astatine the time.

But the doc said the infirmary was afloat and prescribed Mia antibiotics. She besides advised Katie not to commencement them to her she went to furniture and springiness her fluids and ibuprofen until then. 

The schoolgirl, who continued to consciousness poorly, slept successful Katie and her dad, Soron’s furniture that nighttime but woke up successful the aboriginal hours of the greeting and was agitated and disorientated.

Mia besides had rashes connected her arms and legs and bluish lips and complained she was blistery but was acold to touch.

Katie and Soron, who besides person a 12-year-old son, Beau, called an ambulance and paramedics rushed her to infirmary wherever she was fixed intravenous fluids and antibiotics.

However, she went into suspected septic daze and suffered a cardiac apprehension astir 15 minutes aft arriving.

Medics tried to resuscitate her but Mia died astir 20 minutes later. Her origin of decease was fixed arsenic sepsis caused by Group A Strep infection.

Katie, a self-employed hairdresser, said: ‘Our satellite and hearts broke everlastingly erstwhile our beauteous girl was snatched distant from us.

‘Mia had been taken to the doctors doubly to beryllium told her symptoms were viral. Around 15 hours aboriginal she died of sepsis.

‘The unbelievable and unbearable symptom we consciousness is unexplainable and unimaginable.

‘Our beauteous steadfast miss was the happiest, brightest, astir loving and caring miss who smiled, danced, brought joyousness and emotion to everyone she met.

‘She brought truthful overmuch laughter and fun.’

Following their daughter’s decease successful December 2022, Soron and Katie person instructed adept aesculapian negligence lawyers to analyse her attraction and unafraid answers.

They, on with friends and well-wishers, person besides raised much than £40,000 successful her representation done fundraising events, including sponsored runs and section concern donations.

£16,000 of this has been donated to the foundation UK Sepsis Trust.

Soron and Katie person besides acceptable up the charitable organisation aiM – an anagram of Mia’s sanction – that aims to rise consciousness of sepsis and enactment different bereaved families.

This summertime they organised a household and euphony festival called aiM Festival and raised much past £21,000. They anticipation to signifier the lawsuit adjacent twelvemonth arsenic well.

Soron, a 39-year-old engineering teacher, said: ‘A batch of radical whitethorn person heard of sepsis but it’s lone aft what happened to Mia that we realise conscionable however unsafe it is.

‘We started researching and speechmaking much astir it and it was wide to america that Mia had reddish emblem symptoms of sepsis but we weren’t told to instrumentality her to hospital.

‘It’s the bittersweet world that determination are families retired there, similar us, that are suffering from nonaccomplishment owed to sepsis, this has to change.

‘We request to amended the nationalist and wellness professionals to place the signs of sepsis and inquire the question ‘could it beryllium sepsis?’.

Katie added said they volition ne'er get implicit the symptom of losing Mia.

She added: ‘Our household volition ne'er beryllium the aforesaid without Mia. She had her full beingness up of her and was taken from america successful the cruelest mode imaginable.

‘That she volition ne'er get to people life’s milestones specified arsenic passing her exams, getting joined and starting enactment is thing that volition unrecorded with america forever.’

‘Our hearts hurts each 2nd since Mia’s bosom stopped. But we volition ever marque definite Mia volition beryllium remembered successful the astir peculiar way.’

Victoria Zinzan, the specializer aesculapian negligence lawyer astatine Irwin Mitchell representing the couple, said: “Mia was a cherished girl and sister whose decease has had a devastating interaction connected her family.

‘Understandably her loved ones proceed to person a fig of concerns astir her decease and the circumstances surrounding it.

‘Sadly done our enactment we spot excessively galore families affected by sepsis; with Mia’s decease vividly highlighting the dangers of the condition.

‘Early diagnosis and attraction is cardinal to beating sepsis, truthful it’s captious radical cognize what signs to look retired for erstwhile it comes to detecting this incredibly unsafe and life-threatening condition.

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare has been contacted for comment.

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