A infant in a neonatal unit. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian
3 more cases of blood poisoning linked to a batch of intravenous fluid given to babies have been recognized as the fluid producer says it has tracked down the source of the infection.
Public Overall health England mentioned on Wednesday that a batch of a food supplement named parenteral nutrition was strongly linked to the death of one particular infant and the sickness of 14 other individuals.
PHE officials have now recognized three additional situations of septicaemia in babies getting handled in neonatal units in hospitals in England, bringing the total quantity of circumstances to 18.
The babies, who grew to become unwell last week, were responding to antibiotic remedy, a PHE spokeswoman stated. One particular situation was confirmed at Peterborough City hospital in Cambridgeshire, and two probable instances have been identified at Southend University hospital and Basildon University hospital, the two in Essex.
Karen Hamling, the managing director of ITH Pharma which can make the baby feed, mentioned in a statement outside the plant that a single ingredient was considered to be the supply of the contamination.
“From investigations carried out so far, it would seem the possible contamination is linked to a sourced, single raw materials ingredient,” she mentioned.
Manufacturing of the baby feed continues and no part of the plant has been shut down. Hamling said inspectors from the MHRA had been assured that safety requirements were higher and there was no purpose for households or health specialists to be concerned.
“As a mom, as a pharmacist, as an individual who has worked for 30 many years in healthcare, within and outside the NHS, I am deeply saddened that a single infant has died and 14 other people have fallen sick from septicaemia,” she explained.
The organization would not be drawn on specifics of the materials it acquired from a single of its suppliers.
Liquid infant feed linked to three a lot more instances of blood poisoning
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