In Colorado, a child caught a rare disease while hiking in the woods

Mom from Colorado told what she had to go through after her daughter bit a tick.

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Heidi Ganal, a mother of four children and founder of SheFactor, said that after returning her 7-year-old daughter from going to the forest, she noticed several ticks in her hair. She removed the insects and called the doctor. But after 10 days, the girl had paralyzed her left foot and lower leg. The mother called the doctor again, and he told her to take the child to Children's Hospital Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

“She had tick paralysis,” her mother Ganahl wrote in a Facebook post.

“It was a terrible 12 hours waiting for the doctors to know if they could remove the rest of the tick, which continued to release toxin (they couldn’t see it, which made it difficult). The only way out is to remove it or things will get much worse,” the mother continues.

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As a result, the girl recovered, but is no longer eager to go to the forest. Mother thanked the doctors for being able to recognize a rare disease in time. It is noteworthy that over the past three weeks, three cases of tick-borne paralysis were recorded in the region, which is an unusually high prevalence for this disease, therefore, people in nature are asked to be attentive.

According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), tick paralysis is a rare disease caused by a toxin in the saliva of a tick. Symptoms may include acute or flaccid paralysis, which is often confused with other neurological disorders or diseases such as Guillain-Barré syndrome or botulism.

Symptoms usually go away within 24 hours after tick removal.

“Take this seriously,” Ganahl continued in her post. “Hug your children today, life is precious.”

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