Mother warns other parents after daughter, 4, contracts infection while shoe shopping
A mother is warning other parents after her daughter contracted a concerning infection while shopping for new shoes.
The outing was only supposed to take an afternoon, but it landed her 4-year-old daughter, Sienna, in the hospital for five days.
According to Jodie Thomas, her daughter contracted sepsis, which is a potentially life-threatening complication caused by the body’s reaction to an infection.
WARNING THE PICTURES BELOW MIGHT BE DISTURBING TO SOME READERS
Thomas posted the pictures to Facebook and the post was shared more than two hundred times.
“****sorry for gross pics**** For all parents please put socks on you're children while trying new shoes on. I'm guilty not doing it for mine and myself, but this can be the outcome infection spreading throughout the body. You don't don't know whos feet has been in them before hand!! Sienna has had one hell of a outing and thankfully and touch wood made a full recovery! Who would thought trying new shoes on could make somone so ill. So with back to school shopping under way, carry a pair of spare socks!”