- Layla Khan had been on the capsule for lower than three weeks because of painful intervals
A 16-year-old woman has died from a blood clot on her mind after being placed on the capsule to ease interval ache and being wrongly identified with a abdomen bug.
Layla Khan, who had three younger brothers and a sister, was solely three months into a university course and was already being seen as a possible Oxford pupil by her lecturers.
But the 16-year-old began affected by agonising menstrual cycles and was suggested to take a contraceptive capsule by buddies to ease her signs.
She started to take them on November 25 however by December 5 she began having complications – and by the tip of the week she started vomiting.
When her nervous household contacted the 111 NHS helpline they had been advised there have been ‘no crimson flags’ and they need to simply take her for a examine up the next morning.
Layla Khan died from a blood clot lower than three weeks after occurring the contraceptive capsule
Layla, pictured left, was the eldest of 5 kids in her household and had simply began school
On Monday night she started screaming in ache and collapsed within the toilet at house. Her household then drove her to hospital the place a blood clot on the mind was recognized by a CT scan.
A scan revealed a blood clot and Layla was transferred to Hull Royal Infirmary the place she underwent an emergency operation. She was then pronounced lifeless on Wednesday 13 December.
Layla’s household have now spoken out to boost consciousness about this uncommon complication of taking the contraceptive capsule, which they imagine is prone to be the reason for the deadly clot.
Layla was the eldest of 5 kids in her household, who’ve been left devastated by her sudden and surprising demise.
She was making new associates three months after beginning at school and was in a brand new relationship when tragedy struck.
Her cousin Alicia Binns, 17, stated Layla suffered from painful menstrual cycles and determined to strive occurring the capsule after associates talked about it helped them.
After taking the capsule on November 25, it appeared to assist with ‘a problem she has needed to put up with for such a very long time’.
But simply ten days later she started experiencing the migraines and began vomiting.
Layla’s aunt, Jenna Braithwaite, advised Yorkshire Live: ‘On the Sunday night time, she was being sick, lots. She was mainly vomiting each half-hour so that they received a GP appointment on the Monday morning, they took her to the GP.
‘Even although she was being sick the entire time she was on the GP’s, they gave her anti-sickness tablets and advised her that they thought it was a abdomen bug.
‘They stated there was no crimson flags to go to the hospital, and to go to the hospital on Wednesday if it continued.’
By the Monday night she was screaming in ache. When {the teenager} collapsed within the toilet her mom and Mrs Braithwaite carried her to the automobile to drive her to hospital.
Layla’s household are heartbroken and devastated after her sudden and surprising demise
She was taken from the household house in Immingham, North Lincolnshire, to the closest hospital about 10 miles away at Grimsby.
A scan revealed a blood clot and Layla was transferred to Hull Royal Infirmary the place she underwent an emergency operation. She was then pronounced lifeless on Wednesday 13 December.
Mrs Braithwaite stated phrases cannot describe how devastated the household are, commenting: ‘The undeniable fact that they stated there have been no crimson flags after which the day later she’s mind lifeless, it is incomprehensible.
‘My sister, she’s received new child infants to take care of and there are different kids and he or she’s received all of that occurring on the identical time. It’s simply such a shock, she’s solely simply began school and received a job, it is only a shock, the household’s completely devastated.’
Miss Binns commented: ‘Her household needed to say their closing goodbyes, figuring out there was nothing extra the docs might do for her. They made a selfless option to donate Layla’s organs and save 5 different individuals’s lives earlier than Christmas, which is the best reward they might give to anyone right now.’
She stated docs do not know of another trigger for the blood clot and advised the household there was no an infection.
Miss Binns stated the household have gone public as ‘the dangers are usually not spoken about sufficient.’
Paying tribute on-line to her cousin, she stated Layla was ‘lovely and clever, beloved and cherished by so many individuals, and had her entire life forward of her.’
Adding that she had ‘magnificence that might gentle a room and intelligence that even had her school interviewer give her hope at moving into Oxford University.’
The NHS web site states: ‘The threat of getting a blood clot may be very small, however your physician will examine if in case you have sure threat elements earlier than prescribing the capsule.’