niman Posted August 23, 2016 Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 (edited) Mendoza’s daughter, Micaela, was born with health issues related to the Zika virus. Seven-week-old Micaela has scarring on her retina and calcifications on her brain. Doctors say Zika is to blame. Mendoza was infected when she was three months pregnant. “I cried a lot,” she said. “One always thinks the worst is going to happen because you don’t know what part of the brain was damaged.” Mendoza contracted Zika in Venezuela and gave birth in Miami. Dr. Marcelo Laufer, an infectious disease specialist at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, has evaluated Micaela. “She has cerebral calcifications, which are pieces of calcifying tissue in the brain, which means at some point that part of the brain was infected,” he said. http://miami.cbslocal.com/2016/08/22/miami-mother-copes-with-zika-related-effects-in-newborn/ Edited August 23, 2016 by niman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niman Posted August 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 Miami Mother Copes With Zika-Related Effects In Newborn August 22, 2016 11:31 PM By Lauren Pastrana Filed Under: Babies, Health, Lauren Pastrana, Women, Zika 43 Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Maria Mendoza is your typical doting new mom. She gives her baby plenty of attention, and so do her doctors. That’s because Mendoza’s daughter, Micaela, was born with health issues related to the Zika virus. Seven-week-old Micaela has scarring on her retina and calcifications on her brain. Doctors say Zika is to blame. Zika 101: Prevent Spread By Protecting Yourself Mendoza was infected when she was three months pregnant. “I cried a lot,” she said. “One always thinks the worst is going to happen because you don’t know what part of the brain was damaged.” Mendoza contracted Zika in Venezuela and gave birth in Miami. Dr. Marcelo Laufer, an infectious disease specialist at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, has evaluated Micaela. “She has cerebral calcifications, which are pieces of calcifying tissue in the brain, which means at some point that part of the brain was infected,” he said. Every day, Micaela’s mother does physical therapy with her, to make sure she develops good muscle tone. She said the doctors are optimistic that with therapy and constant monitoring, Micaela will be fine, but they’ll have to monitor her for effects of the infection for years. CBS News has learned 69 pregnant women in Florida have the Zika virus, but state health officials aren’t saying if those infections were contracted locally or while traveling abroad. Miami mother-to-be Christina Frigo isn’t taking any chances. “I was just terrified,” she told CBS4’s sister station WBBM in Chicago. So, at 32 weeks pregnant, Frigo and her husband uprooted their lives in South Florida to ride out the rest of her pregnancy more than a thousand miles away in Chicago, at Frigo’s mom’s house. Frigo says one pregnant friend thought she was overreacting. “She was surprised to hear that I was taking such a drastic step,” she said. “She’s on her way to Boston right now.” Both Frigo and her husband tested negative for the virus. While not everyone can just pack up and leave, Mendoza says expectant mothers should be taking extra precautions. “I would say to them to not leave their homes because it’s a situation that’s impossible to cope with,” she said. “It’s an anguish that will keep you awake.” Lauren Pastranafacebook Lauren Pastrana is the co-anchor of CBS4 News This Morning airing Monday-Friday, from 5 to 7 AM. She joined CBS Miami in April 2012 as a reporter. She is an Emmy nominated, multimedia journalist with experience in television, radio and web-based ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follow CBSMIAMI.COM: Facebook | Twitter MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Maria Mendoza is your typical doting new mom. She gives her baby plenty of attention, and so do her doctors. That’s because Mendoza’s daughter, Micaela, was born with health issues related to the Zika virus. Seven-week-old Micaela has scarring on her retina and calcifications on her brain. Doctors say Zika is to blame. Zika 101: Prevent Spread By Protecting Yourself Mendoza was infected when she was three months pregnant. “I cried a lot,” she said. “One always thinks the worst is going to happen because you don’t know what part of the brain was damaged.” Mendoza contracted Zika in Venezuela and gave birth in Miami. Dr. Marcelo Laufer, an infectious disease specialist at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, has evaluated Micaela. “She has cerebral calcifications, which are pieces of calcifying tissue in the brain, which means at some point that part of the brain was infected,” he said. Every day, Micaela’s mother does physical therapy with her, to make sure she develops good muscle tone. She said the doctors are optimistic that with therapy and constant monitoring, Micaela will be fine, but they’ll have to monitor her for effects of the infection for years. CBS News has learned 69 pregnant women in Florida have the Zika virus, but state health officials aren’t saying if those infections were contracted locally or while traveling abroad. Miami mother-to-be Christina Frigo isn’t taking any chances. “I was just terrified,” she told CBS4’s sister station WBBM in Chicago. So, at 32 weeks pregnant, Frigo and her husband uprooted their lives in South Florida to ride out the rest of her pregnancy more than a thousand miles away in Chicago, at Frigo’s mom’s house. Frigo says one pregnant friend thought she was overreacting. “She was surprised to hear that I was taking such a drastic step,” she said. “She’s on her way to Boston right now.” Both Frigo and her husband tested negative for the virus. While not everyone can just pack up and leave, Mendoza says expectant mothers should be taking extra precautions. “I would say to them to not leave their homes because it’s a situation that’s impossible to cope with,” she said. “It’s an anguish that will keep you awake.”
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niman Posted August 23, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 23, 2016 South Florida doctors treat baby girl born with Zika virus Child's mother contracted virus while traveling to Venezuela By Hatzel Vela - Reporter Posted: 6:15 PM, August 22, 2016Updated: 10:16 AM, August 23, 2016 2K 2K 1 Comment MIAMI - A baby girl who tested positive for the Zika virus is being treated by doctors in South Florida. The baby's mother contracted the Zika virus while traveling while pregnant off the coast of Venezuela. More Zika Virus Headlines Miami Beach mayor says governor 'blindsided' him with Zika virus announcement Mayor Philip Levine unhappy with governor's response to Zika virus in… CDC issues travel advisory for Miami Beach No aerial spraying over Zika zone in Miami Beach The baby has not been diagnosed with microcephaly, but doctors said the child is suffering from other Zika-related side effects. Photos taken inside the baby girl's eyes at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine help give doctors a clearer vision of how to treat the baby. "You can see that here we have the changes in pigment. So this is what we think is the Zika infection in this child," pediatric retina specialist Dr. Audina Berrocal said while examining a photo. The baby's mother, Maria Ramirez Bolivar, contracted the virus at the end of her first trimester, while on a family Christmas vacation on the island of Margarita off the coast of Venezuela. The island is about 290 miles east of Caracas. "They thought it was the sun," Ramirez Bolivar said in Spanish about the rashes she started getting followed by red eyes and stomach issues. She said she felt terrible to hear the news and then her "world collapsed." Ramirez Bolivar, who is from Venezuela, but now lives in Doral, said she saw three doctors and then waited for the results. She said the past months have been filled with anxiety, not knowing the fate of her baby, Micaela, who is now nearly two months old. "This baby luckily has very little changes in the retina," Berrocal said. But Micaela does have some calcifications in her brain left behind by the virus. "It just tells us that there was a bacteria or a virus in the brain and that virus has left us with some calcifications," Berrocal said. "Babies with early intervention and the right support, sometimes they compensate for those changes that we find early." Berrocal recently spent time in Brazil working with 25 other babies who have severe microcephaly. The scars in those babies' retinas are larger and closer to the center than Micaela's, evidence of what is likely long-term damage. "Finding changes in the eyes indicates that we must have something in the brain of that child," Berrocal said. Still, Berrocal said Micaela will likely have "almost normal visual development." Ramirez Bolivar is thankful that her daughter's condition is not worse, and gave her the middle name Milagros (Miracle), because she believes her daughter is a miracle child. "Don't go to places where there is Zika," Ramirez Bolivar warned other mothers, saying sometimes she hasn't been able to sleep, worrying about her young daughter's future. Micaela, who was born June 28, is Ramirez Bolivar's fourth child. She also has a 13-year-old daughter and 9-year-old twin boys. http://www.local10.com/health/zika-virus/south-florida-doctors-treat-baby-girl-born-with-zika-virus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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