Perth teen Kayla Jennings contracts flu which leaves her unable to stroll and communicate

• Perth teen loses motor abilities after contracting the flu
• Kayla Jennings is bedridden in hospital unable to stroll
• There’s been greater than 50,000 instances on the flu this 12 months

A teenage lady has been left unable to stroll after the flu took ‘all the things from her’.

Kayla Jennings, 16, contracted a respiratory sickness two weeks in the past which quickly progressed into one thing extra critical, leaving her bedridden in hospital.

Her mum Casey Murphy instructed 7News it began with a cough however rapidly worsened.

‘She could not stroll, could not actually speak, she could not say something, she misplaced all motor abilities,’ Ms Murphy, from Perth, stated.

She now faces a protracted street to restoration in Fiona Stanley Hospital with fluid on her mind.

Exams confirmed her situation all stemmed from influenza A – a viral an infection that causes signs equivalent to fever and chills, sneezing, coughing and a sore throat.

Influenza is a bunch of illnesses that trigger flu-like signs, with the virus cut up into two classes, Influenza A and Influenza B.

The teenager is about to begin rehabilitation this week, by which she’s going to study to stroll once more.

A fundraiser has been set as much as assist pay for her street to restoration.

Her household say the sickness ‘took all the things away from her’ and remorse not getting round to getting their winter flu vaccines.

The an infection might be lethal as evidenced when it lately claimed the lifetime of Perth toddler Muhammed Saadiq Segaff.

The three-year-old went into cardiac arrest in hospital after falling ailing from the virus and regardless of open-heart surgical procedure couldn’t be saved.

The newest Federal Division of Well being and Aged Care figures confirmed there have been greater than 17,000 instances of the flu, or influenza-like sicknesses, recorded between Might 15 and 28.

There have been greater than 50,000 instances of the flu recorded this 12 months.

Australia’s flu season often lasts between April to October.