Shiva Motlag-Elbakri vividly remembers having to hold her four-month-old daughter Mytilini throughout an entire night. “Whenever she would lie flat, she would go into tachycardia ,” the Brisbane woman told 7NEWS.com.au. “So she declined so much just in my arms.” WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Mum’s fury after she and daughter sent home with Panadol before meningitis diagnosis. “I don’t think it’s melodramatic at all to say she could have died that night or had a severe brain injury.
But she claims her concerns were dismissed, with doctors not finding any evidence of the illness and suggesting Mytilini “must just be coming down with a virus”. A urine sample showed no signs of meningitis and doctors opted not to perform a blood culture test. She was told to give her daughter Panadol, “let the virus run its course and follow up with GP in few days”.
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