Burned 8 Year Old Some DU'ers Said Will Die in LBN Story is Home & Recovering

[RamboLiberal]

I posted this thread back in June in LBN about FDA denying a treatment to this child. FDA relented & Alfred Real got the treatment. LBN thread at the time http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=4443747

I'm very happy to report that this child Al is out of the hospital & home. So please, don't be so quick to assume it is better for a burn patient to die. And bless Shriner's hospital and all who work there taking care of these kids.

STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. - It was a joyous homecoming Wednesday for an 8-year-old Stone Mountain boy, who was severely burned last summer. Alfred Real was injured in a flash fire at his home in June.

Real returned home Tuesday, after undergoing months of treatment at Shriners Children's Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. Real's parents say doctors there saved his life.

Real was released from the hospital on Monday after 17 weeks in the hospital.

The Stone Mountain boy was injured in a flash fire at his home after pouring gasoline on a toy and lighting it with a grill lighter.

Real was rushed to Grady Hospital with burns over 78 percent of his body. Doctors determined the best place for him to get the treatment he needed was at Shriners.

http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/dpp/news/burned-stone-mountain-boy-returns-home-100610

[polly7]

1. This brings back memories.

I'm so glad the little boy survived, what a nightmare. Those doctors are amazing, the nurses too who have to do their jobs through the pain and screaming. These burn units are fantastic.

My brother had 3rd degree burns to over 80% of his body, too. It took nearly a year of surgeries and rehab before he finally was released to a smaller, local hospital ...... but he's done great. You wouldn't know he was burnt looking at him, one tough, hard-working guy, and he was lucky his face was mostly 1st and 2nd degree burns.

[hedgehog]

2. I'm glad that the child is doing well. However, I also recall

the early days of AIDS when the FDA relented and allowed treatment with drugs that hadn't gone through all the protocols. People were dying, why wait for the paperwork, right? In the event, it took a while and a lot of people going through side effects to find out that some of the drugs were toxic and/or ineffective.

[RamboLiberal]

3. This was skin from his own body not a drug

Not quite the same thing IMHO and at that point this patient & his parents didn't have much to lose.

[hedgehog]

4. I don't know enough about this technique to judge the risks,

but I do know that there have been a number of medications and medical procedures that looked absolutely reasonable and later discovered to be harmful. For example, hormone therapy for post-menopausal women. What could possibly be wrong with dosing women with the hormones their bodies used to make?

[TalkingDog]

5. Their bodies used to make mare estrogen?

I thought it made human estrogen....

[hedgehog]

6. I think estrogen is estrogen, which explains why all those

sites pushing plant estrogen are misleading people when they talk about it being a safe alternative.