A six-year-old girl in Kansas is being hailed a hero for saving her two-year-old sister who was having a seizure. On Monday, Allee Morillo’s two-year-old daughter Collins wasn’t feeling well. The toddler was running a fever, but her mom gave her some Tylenol and put her to bed after she wasn’t feeling well enough to eat any of her dinner.
Later that night, Collins’ six-year-old sister Addyson, who shares a room with her, noticed something was wrong with her little sister. “She was doing something weird,” Addyson recalls. So she ran and got their mother, who came to check on the baby. “When I scooped her up she was blue, she was limp, but her limbs were still shaking,” says Allee. “She kind of had some foamy type stuff at the mouth.”
Allee called 911 and when paramedics arrived, they told them Collins would need to be airlifted to Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, more than an hour away from the Morillo’s Fulton home. Fortunately by the next morning, Collins was feeling well enough to head home. The family is grateful that their older daughter acted quickly to help her little sister. “If she wouldn’t have come and got me,” Allee says. “The fact she was already blue, I truly don’t know what would have happened.”
- Doctors say that seizures caused by fever are common in young children, but if they last longer than five minutes or if the child is having trouble breathing, call 911 right away.
Source: FOX 4 KC