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Girl Left in Coma After Getting Brain Bug After Catching the Flu
Sienna Dunion’s rare brain disease, triggered by influenza, demands years of intense rehabilitation including relearning basic functions, doctors say tailored treatments are underway.
- On Monday 17 November, Little Sienna Dunion collapsed at home and was diagnosed with Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy in Nottingham's ICU.
- Doctors say Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy is a rare brain disorder usually triggered by viral infections such as influenza, with clinicians describing it as 'one in a million' and complicating diagnosis.
- Doctors performed plasma exchange as part of a tailored treatment plan; surgeons at Nottingham's Queen Medical Hospital removed 60 percent of Sienna's intestines, leaving her with a stoma bag and short bowel syndrome.
- Now the family are raising £100,000 to fund rehabilitation and home modifications while Sienna stays months in Nottingham's Queen Medical Hospital neurology ward.
- Doctors warn the prognosis is uncertain, with 40 percent of ANE survivors not making it out of coma, prompting Gary and Angelina Dunion to raise awareness.
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Girl left in coma after getting brain bug after catching the flu
Doctors have indicated her future prognosis remains unclear.
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Sienna Dunion had been a perfectly healthy child with no underlying conditions before she was diagnosed with Acute Necrotising Encephalitis
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