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“It doesn’t just kill the elderly”: the message from Ludovic’s parents, who died at the age of 5 from Covid-19

Little Ludovic had no medical history. However, last March, the little boy died of Covid-19 before he could celebrate his sixth birthday. His parents, Cédric and Magali, warn and remind BFMTV.com that children are not spared from Covid-19.

“Many people find it hard to understand that his disappearance is due to Covid-19.” The parents of little Ludovic Dury are also struggling to realize that their 5-year-old son, who had no medical history and no known frailty, died after contracting the Omicron variant of Covid-19 last March.

“Everything happened very quickly,” Ludovic and Magali Dury told BFMTV.com, still stunned by the death of their eldest son at Dijon University Hospital on March 16. “A little boy who was in great shape, interested in everything and a good student,” according to his parents.

The autopsy report published this summer reveals that the boy, who was to celebrate his sixth birthday in a week, died of “multivisceral damage related to Sars-Cov-2”. Doctors specify that the child was the victim of “acute lymphohistiocytic myocarditis” and that he had “pulmonary lesions” that could “explain sudden cardiorespiratory arrest.”

Very few symptoms at first.

When the boy tested positive for Covid-19 (as did the rest of his family), a few days before the tragedy, he still appeared to be in relatively good shape. On Friday, he still has no symptoms. “It wasn’t until Sunday night that he started feeling intensely tired,” recalls his father, a farmer from the small town of Merceuil (Côte-d’Or), “he didn’t have a fever but he wasn’t hungry anymore. morning the same, crawled, often lay down…”

The couple then decides to take him to the doctor, who redirects them to the Beaune hospital emergency room where tests (blood tests, EKG) are carried out on the boy for three hours. “At this point they told us we weren’t sure what he had so we weren’t sure what to do with it… They sent us home with paracetamol so we tried not to worry because they told us there was nothing serious.” parents explain.

But on Wednesday morning, everything changes. “His condition had not improved but it had not worsened,” his parents told the newspaper. The Public Good. His mother explains that very early that morning (around 7 am), Ludovic gets up by himself, goes downstairs as usual. Then, a quarter of an hour later, the couple discover him lying on his stomach on the carpet in the room where he used to play, with his head to one side.

The parents immediately call Samu, but he does not answer. In an emergency, Magali and Cédric Dury decide to take the car to get to the Beaune hospital as quickly as possible. “After two minutes, we managed to reach Samu by phone, who asked us to pull over to the side of the road to give her a heart massage,” says Ludovic’s father. But neither they, nor the firemen, nor Samu, finally manage to resurrect the child. Once they arrived at the Dijon hospital, the doctors confirmed the death of their son to the parents.

The family now limits their interactions.

Now the couple is investigating why their apparently healthy son developed such a severe form of covid-19. “The doctors told us that it was indeed Covid, but that they could not say why his condition had deteriorated so suddenly,” says his mother. Genetic analyzes are being carried out to try to explain what happened, but the results should only be known in a few months.

“In any case, the Covid does not only kill the elderly”, the parents of little Ludovic would like to remember. “Our son is not the only child victim of Covid, there are several known cases in France and we don’t talk enough,” protests the thirtysomething couple, who now fear sending their second son Clément, 2 and a half years old, to school.

“Since the beginning of the crisis, we have always been very careful, especially to protect the elderly around us, and in the end the opposite happened,” confesses Magali Dury, a teacher by profession, who is now committed to education at home. of her son, who goes to kindergarten.

The couple, who welcomed a little girl last May, now limits their outings and contact with the outside world, for fear that their other two children will catch Covid. “We prefer not to take any risks, because in the end we don’t know if they also don’t have a frailty form or the same risk of developing a severe form as their brother”, Cédric and Magali explain again.

Last January, Olivier Véran recalled that if “the risks for a child to present a severe form are very low, they exist”. Since the start of the pandemic, 52 children under the age of 10 have died of Covid in France, according to Santé Publique France, out of more than 126,000 victims across the country.

Author: Juana Bulant
Source: BFM TV

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