Heartbreaking final words of girl, 6, who died after eating her favorite fast food

A miss successful Massachusetts has died from E coli aft eating astatine her favourite accelerated nutrient restaurant.

Angelica Vazquez, 6, ordered a cheeseburger from her section McDonald's earlier a nighttime of trick-or-treating connected Halloween this year.

The pursuing evening, the simple schooler told her mother, Samantha Ocasio, that she was feeling sick.

Ms Ocasio asked Angelica if she needed to spot a doctor, but her girl said: 'No, my belly conscionable hurts.'

So the mother-of-seven assumed she conscionable had an mean tummy bug and had her portion Gatorade and unbend successful beforehand of the TV.

On November 2, pursuing a bubble bath, Angelica fell unconscious successful her mother's arms aft telling her: 'I emotion you.' Those would beryllium her last words.

By the clip the ambulance arrived astatine the hospital, the miss who was ever 'very grateful for everything and thing she had' was successful cardiac arrest.

Ms Ocasio said: 'It was fast. It was really, truly fast.'

Just 12 hours aft arriving astatine the hospital, Angelica died from E coli, a deadly bacteria perchance linked to slivered yellowish onions astatine McDonald's restaurants successful 14 states. 

More than 100 Americans person been sickened truthful far, with 34 hospitalized. An older antheral in Colorado died past period from the illness. 

There person been no confirmed E coli cases linked to the outbreak successful Massachusetts and it was thought lone 1 point was affected: McDonald's' Quarter Pounder burger.

Angelica had eaten a regular cheeseburger. But her household suspects that eating astatine the edifice could beryllium to blame.

Ms Ocasio told MassLive: 'My full interest is "OK, if it wasn't the McDonald's, what is it?"' 

In the US, determination are astir 265,000 cases of E.coli each twelvemonth and much than 100 radical dice from the disease, according to wellness officials.

Infections are caused by eating contaminated food, specified arsenic crushed beef — wherever a contaminated portion of an animal's intestine has seeped into the proviso — vegetables — which whitethorn person been grown utilizing contaminated h2o — and unpasteurized milk. 

Patients usually commencement to endure symptoms 3 to 4 days aft being infected, though they tin beryllium delayed much than a week later.

These see diarrhea, tummy cramps and nausea, which whitethorn wide up wrong a fewer days.

If radical commencement to suffer from diarrhea that is persistent, terrible oregon bloody, however, it is recommended that they question urgent attraction successful hospital.

In terrible cases, E coli toxins person been shown to question to the bosom and origin inflammation, putting accrued accent connected the organ. This could pb to cardiac arrest.  

Ms Ocasio didn't larn her daughter's origin of decease until she work the decease certificate. At the hospital, she says doctors refused to supply answers.

They lone told her that Angelica suffered encephalon damage, which could person been caused by E coli breaching the blood-brain obstruction and traveling to the cardinal tense system, starring to inflammation and cutting disconnected oxygen to the organ. 

Ms Ocasio said: 'They conscionable kept telling me, "She’s excessively sick. She’s excessively sick."'

Angelica's decease certificate revealed cardiac arrest, acute gastrointestinal bleeding, and a affirmative E coli test.  

It's unclear if Angelica's corruption was caused by the burger she ate astatine McDonald's. Earlier this month, Grimmway Farms annoounced a recall of its organic babe and full carrots owed to E coli contamination. 

Affected products were sold successful 18 states, sickening 39 radical and hospitalizing 15. One idiosyncratic has died.  

Ms Ocasio is present focused connected keeping her different six children, each nether the property of 10, harmless and preserving her daughter's representation by making necklaces for each of her siblings.

Ms Ocasio said: 'They get to deterioration those everywhere. We speech astir her. They cognize they’re much than invited to speech astir her.

'And I cheque their intelligence wellness each greeting and earlier bed. And successful between, we conscionable bash a batch of talking and a batch of crying together.' 

She besides noted that she wants to stock her daughter's communicative successful hopes of redeeming different child's life. 

'I consciousness similar my occupation present is to dispersed awareness,' she said.