Amir featuring in Positive Parenting magazine

Dah lama tak hapdet blog ni.. berabuk sudah.. sangat busy uols (hahaha poyo tak?) ekeke kita tukar kerja tempat baru, environment baru, kawan2 baru.. yang tu next entry kita hapdet k.

Kali ni zura nak hapdet pasal Pneumococcal yg kita dok sibuk2 cakap sekarang. Ramai budak2 kecik yang bawah 5 tahun kena penyakit merbahaya ni sampai ada kawan kita yang kehilangan anak disebabkan penyakit ini. Cuba sebut sket.... Pneumococcal Meningitis (nu-mo-ko-kel-me-ning-ji-tis) boleh? hagak macam terbelit2 lidah tu sila la praktis banyak kali sket ye uols..

Sejak si comel ku itu survived dari Pneumococcal Meningitis last June 2011. Kalau yg nak tahu tentang Amir survived Pneumococal Meningitis ni boleh klik sini. Zura banyak terlibat dengan aktiviti sukerela yg mana khas utk create awareness (beri kesedaran) kepada semua parents yg ada anak bawah umur 5tahun tentang bahaya penyakit ini.

Sebelum ini ada terlibat dgn ceramah, newspaper interview utk Berita Harian, Harian Metro, Sin Jiu Jit Poh dan yang terbaru ni magazine interview. Semuanya untuk bagi pengetahuan pada parents termasuk korang2 ni yg ada anak, adik2 kecik, anak2 buah, sedara-mara yg bawah umur 5 tahun. Pergilah amik vaccin Pneumococcal ni.

Okey. So hari tu (2-3 bulan lepas Chairman Positive Parenting (Datuk Dr Zulkifli Ismail - Past President utk Malaysian Paediatric Association) ni ada e-mail untuk request staff dia dtg untuk interview Zura. Magazine ini adalah percuma (complimentary copy) yg selalu diedarkan kat semua hospital2 kepada pesakit2. Magazine ni baru keluaran ke 2 untuk 2012. Korang jugak boleh visit kat www.mypositiveparenting.org untuk dapatkan banyak maklumat tentang keibubapaan ni :)

So ni la hasilnya....

Remember parents!!!! protect your child with pneumococcal vaccin... sedey wooo duduk ICU lelama.. pastu bila tanya doctor 'ape harapan anak saya nak sembuh?' Doc tu diam jer... tak sentap tak korang? Alhamdulillah Amir Reza dah semakin besar. Dah 2 tahun dia skrg. Dah bijak bercakap.

Sila abaikan mummy yg over kat belakang tu yer.. ahaks....

World Pneumonia Day 2011

If you have not heard or don't even know what is Pneumococcal (pronounced as new-mo-co-ccal).. Did you know pneumococcal disease, that can cause meningitis, pneumonia, otitis media (middle ear infection) and septicaemia, is preventable through vaccination yet continues to be the leading cause of childhood morbidity and mortality worldwide?

Pneumonia is the world’s leading killer of children age 5.
It takes the life of one child every 20 seconds and is responsible for nearly  20% of deaths in young children.
Pneumonia is among the most solvable problems in global health, and yet it remains the leading infectious killer of young children on the planet.

We have the tools to protect and prevent children from catching pneumonia and to treat those suffering with this illness. Investments in preventing, protecting against, and treating pneumonia have helped contribute to a 35% reduction in child mortality since 1990.  To advance progress, we need to continue these investments.
This illness is harmful and attacking children below 5 years old. Why am I posting about this? If you have not read about my lil Amir who was infected on Pneumococcal Meningitis when he was 11 months old last June 2011. Please read here and here.

On 12 November 2011 last week is the World Pneumonia Day 2011 and I've been invited to attend their conference together with Pfizer on lauch the official website: http://www.abc4pneumococcal.com/ <<< it's everything u wanna know about Pneumococcal.

 Bruce Langoulant

Jessica Langoulant

And the best part, Bruce Langoulant, Chairman, The Meningitis Centre. President, Confederation of Meningitis which his daughter also suffer from Pneumococcal Meningitis when the baby girl, Ashleigh was 6 months old. He is a father who is on a mission to save children's lives. And he believes that the harder he works, the more children will be saved from the clutches of a deadly disease. Meet Australian Bruce Langoulant, a global campaigner who raises awareness on the dangers of meningitis.

He wants parents to learn from him because his second daughter is handicapped after she was struck by the illness almost 20 years ago. Things were rosy for the family until December 1989 when the girl, then only six months old, fell ill suddenly. She survived.



Ashleigh, now 22, has never walked, or talked. Mr Langoulant told The New Paper that it's something he does not want other parents to go through.
'Right now, it is still a tragedy that is being repeated every day,' he said.
He was in Malaysia recently to share his experiences with a group of parents which including me (of course) whose children were also struck by the often devastating illness caused by the common bacterium, the pneumococcus.

Ashleigh had pneumococcal meningitis, one of the four types of illnesses caused by the pneumococcus.
Such bacteria can cause pneumonia, blood infection, meningitis and also ear and nose complications.
Mr Langoulant now travels the world as the president of the Confederation of Meningitis Organisation, hoping to persuade both authorities and parents of the urgency to put the vaccine against the disease on the schedule of compulsory vaccinations for children.

 the doogift is so informative & awesome

with Dynas (actress) who already vaccinated her baby as well 

It was a really great sharing by Bruce about his daughter. I urged all parents MUST ASSURED TO VACCIN THEIR CHILD WITH PNEUMOCOCCAL VACCIN. Its Prevenar-13.

You can get it in normal pead clinic or hospital in the range from RM250 - RM350 per dose.
If your child is below 12 months : 3 dose x RM 280 (@ Dr Chan Child Specialist in Sri Damansara)
If your child is 12 months - 2 years : 2 dose
If your child is above 2 years : 1 dose

*do not wait until your child is above 2 years because you want to save money. DON'T! because like my baby Amir got this illness at 11 months old and Bruce's daughter, Ashleigh got it at 6 months old.

I do not wish other parents to face what I am already face in June 2011. Read my previous entry here.

Want to know more about this, can also visit : www.facebook.com/preventpneumonia

Lets view the event pictures...

 from left: Yen-Nee, Dynas & myself

 from left: Atilia, Yasmin Hani, Dynas, Dr Musa (KPJ Damansara Specialist), Bruce Langoulant, Angel (Pfizer)

 from left: Yasmin Hani, Atilia, Dynas, Angel (Pfizer), Bruce Langoulant & Dr Musa

 The actress pledges in www.abc4pneumococcal.com 

please feel free to do so and hope government will inforce this vaccin in schedules 

us after the launch 

 I'm short :'(

 we love the plush toys

 hehehe.. everyone look so happy

gorgeous ladies 

 smile people :)

 Azwar showing the website to me.. thanks darling.. you such a doll :)

babes, we had a great lunch date. Should do it again next time.

Amir’s story on survival from Pneumococcal Meningitis at 11 months old..

It's all started on 3rd June 2011

One week before lil Amir get sick...

happily with his brother's ride

1st day sick - Friday, 03 June 2011 and after took him from nursery, he still able to play around and move here and there. The body temperature was 37.5'c

2nd day sick - Saturday, 04 June 2011. Temperature still manageable 37.8'c - 38.5'c.

We thought it was normal fever as he just learn how to stand

and maybe fever because of teething or something.

So mummy continue his paracetamol syrup every 4 hours....

He could not stop vomiting

on the 3rd day - Sunday, 05 June 2011 from 10pm onwards

...and mummy think because he's still breastfeeding

and maybe mummy eat something spicy...

but we were wrong......

arrived at Damansara Specialist Hospital in emergency room

my lil Amir is very very sick

and even not able to move his head left and right

Dr Soh the pediatrician finds that something is wrong with Amir

and wanted to do CT Scan. She want to see if there is any head injuries... 

and yes the CT Scan is clear from any injuries or sort...

Alhamdulillah!

but yet, Dr Soh suspected it might cause of infection in the brain

as my lil Amir is not responsive at all...

Day 1: 6 June 2011 in normal ward

The next day, Tuesday... he still vomitting and doc need him to fasting

and solely depends onthe drip water.

Yet he still vomitting and body become much weaker than yesterday...

This is the time that doctor suggect to transfer him to ICU

for further check-up and diagnose...

Doc also suggest to do Cerebrospinal Fluids procedure (Lumbar puncture)

which hubby and I was stunned for few minutes.

Hubby called my MIL and asked Dr Mohamed Sulaiman Ibrahim (specialist for Anaesthetist)

from KPJ Puteri JB. He advised that is the safe procedure and it took only minimal fluids to

diagnose the issue...

...and yes!!! within 15 minutes hubby and I decided to do the procedure....

and yes!! we did trust the doctor. For all good sake!

My lil Amir in HDU (High Dependency Unit) before the CSF procedure

He could barely reconize mummy :(

worried Ayah....with harmless Amir

Doc already started the antibiotic as she suspected for few bacteria infection in the brain...

IT'S WAS PNEUMOCOCCAL MENINGITIS

on antibiotics Venco & Rosephine

he has so many drips because of the vein were so small...

so doc need to open new line for the antibiotics

my heart was breaking...

...my son was so sick

he feel insecure

...and always want me by his side

Our prayers was answered...

Lil Amir is getting better...

he's able to move around and smile to us :)

getting better, can sit by himself and even read books

been transferred to normal ward

Day 9: Dr Razak do another line in his leg as the hand is already swollen....

Day 10

Day 11: 16 June 2011 - with dedicated Dr Soh

Day 11: Amir phobia with all the nurses

..as he been jap every single days non-stop

Day 12

Day 15 - Dr Soh clinic for Pneumococcal vaccin

Thank you doc & nurses Damansara Specialist Hospital

and each and everyone of you who do pray for the little angle

...and most important to Allah SWT who always answering to our prayers...

AMIN

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btw, cannot wait for the hospital allowance... hehehehe

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