An Ohio mom has revealed how her healthy teenage son was ‘hours away from brain damage’ after being struck down by the same pneumonia rising in China.
William McCarren, 14, was rushed to hospital Wednesday after he came home from school ‘crying and grabbing his chest’ saying he could ‘barely breathe.’
‘He was very pale and he could barely stay awake, he was acting like he was going to pass out,’ his mother, Mollee Campbell, told DailyMail.com.
When he arrived at the ER, the doctors told her William’s lungs were so full of fluid it was starving his body and organs of oxygen.
‘They said that if he went much lower it could have caused brain damage in some way,’ said Mollee, holding back tears. ‘He was extremely scared. We got really lucky.’
William was diagnosed with mycoplasma, the bacterial infection at the center of pneumonia outbreaks in China and several European countries.
He is one of more than 140 children in the Warren County area of Ohio to fall ill with the lung condition,…