CBC - Complete Blood Count Testing for our Children
- von: Dawn Cepero
- empfänger: Michael Leavitt, Secretary of Health & Human Services - U.S. Dept of Health & Human Services
We, the undersigned are asking for your assistance regarding our attached petition to Bring Back CBC Blood Testing for Early Detection.
We are on a mission to take back some of the independence we have allowed our healthcare system to have, especially those affecting the sake of our children.
On March 8, 2005, I lost my four year old daughter to Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Formerly considered "the adult form". She had no symptoms prior to her death, outside of 5 days and the Leukemia presented as a Stomach Virus. The symptoms started on a Thursday with just a low grade fever and then vomiting the next day. She had been given a routince CBC on 9/3/2004, just six months prior and it was perfect. On Saturday after I had treated it systematically with Clear Fluids and the Brat diet, she had stopped vomiting, but was still dry heaving. At 5pm, I took my child to an After Hours Pediatrician because she was barely drinking. I was concerned she was dehydrating. The doctor did not do a thorough body exam, only looking down her throat for moisture. He told me it was a stomach virus and sent us home with Promethazine and Tylenol suppositories. By Monday morning, both of her eyelids were completely bruised with Petechiae. I called her Pediatrician and he told me to bring her to him at once. He took one look at her and made the diagnosis without blood work.
Now, I know that my child was a rare situation, having never had a nose bleed ever or an ear infection, no fatigue prior to that week, no aches or pains, no abnormal bruising that did not disappear in a few days; however I have also met multiple parents whose children were ill for months before ever getting a CBC and finding out their children had Autoimmune diseases or Cancer or some other illness.
More children are diagnosed with Childhood Cancers during school physicals, then any other time during the year. This is because they have their blood tested through a Basic CBC. Unfortunately, only 50% of Pediatriciand do a CBC during a physical anymore.
Our request is that CBC Tests be done via Finger Stick every time a child is ill at the doctors. It is imperative to the health and well being of our children for early detection of not only Cancer, but thousands of illnesses.
A CBC test can act as a marker test. Sometimes, it is the first and only sign that something is actually wrong.
When we were children, they were given each and every time we were seen by the doctor for those 30 and older. Not only will it provide early detection, but it will also prevent over use of antibiotics when they are unnecessarily given.
Please support us and make CBC testing mandatory for every child under 16 when they are ill and have been seen by a doctor.
Thank you!
Dawn Cepero
We, the undersigned are asking for your assistance regarding our attached petition to Bring Back CBC Blood Testing for Early Detection.
We are on a mission to take back some of the independence we have allowed our healthcare system to have, especially those affecting the sake of our children.
On March 8, 2005, I lost my four year old daughter to Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Formerly considered "the adult form". She had no symptoms prior to her death, outside of 5 days and the Leukemia presented as a Stomach Virus. The symptoms started on a Thursday with just a low grade fever and then vomiting the next day. She had been given a routince CBC on 9/3/2004, just six months prior and it was perfect. On Saturday after I had treated it systematically with Clear Fluids and the Brat diet, she had stopped vomiting, but was still dry heaving. At 5pm, I took my child to an After Hours Pediatrician because she was barely drinking. I was concerned she was dehydrating. The doctor did not do a thorough body exam, only looking down her throat for moisture. He told me it was a stomach virus and sent us home with Promethazine and Tylenol suppositories. By Monday morning, both of her eyelids were completely bruised with Petechiae. I called her Pediatrician and he told me to bring her to him at once. He took one look at her and made the diagnosis without blood work.
Now, I know that my child was a rare situation, having never had a nose bleed ever or an ear infection, no fatigue prior to that week, no aches or pains, no abnormal bruising that did not disappear in a few days; however I have also met multiple parents whose children were ill for months before ever getting a CBC and finding out their children had Autoimmune diseases or Cancer or some other illness.
More children are diagnosed with Childhood Cancers during school physicals, then any other time during the year. This is because they have their blood tested through a Basic CBC. Unfortunately, only 50% of Pediatriciand do a CBC during a physical anymore.
Our request is that CBC Tests be done via Finger Stick every time a child is ill at the doctors. It is imperative to the health and well being of our children for early detection of not only Cancer, but thousands of illnesses.
A CBC test can act as a marker test. Sometimes, it is the first and only sign that something is actually wrong.
When we were children, they were given each and every time we were seen by the doctor for those 30 and older. Not only will it provide early detection, but it will also prevent over use of antibiotics when they are unnecessarily given.
Please support us and make CBC testing mandatory for every child under 16 when they are ill and have been seen by a doctor.
Thank you!
Dawn Cepero
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