Unvaccinated mother tells of her '巨大な 犯罪' after 21-year-old son was left brain 損失d from 戦う／戦いing whooping cough as a baby
At 21, Ewan?Jewell should be 乗る，着手するing on his first steps to 十分な-adulthood and independence.
But he was left brain-損失d after catching whooping cough at just two weeks.??
His mother Mel Jewell 恐れるs she gave him the '100-day cough'.
She?feels '巨大な 犯罪' and is 勧めるing all 妊娠している women to get vaccinated まっただ中に an 現在進行中の 突発／発生 which has killed six babies in the UK so far.?
The mother-of-four （人命などを）奪う，主張するs she was never 申し込む／申し出d the jab while 妊娠している in 2002. An NHS 計画／陰謀 to roll out the jab to mothers-to-be wasn't introduced until a １０年間 later.
Mel Jewell said she feels '巨大な 犯罪' for passing the whooping cough on to her son Ewan who was left brain-損失d by the 感染 as a baby?
Ewan, who caught the 感染 at just two weeks needed to be placed on life support after his brain became 餓死するd of oxygen
He would spend months in the hospital, only 存在 井戸／弁護士席 enough to come home at three months of age?
Mel, 48, who lives in Eastleigh, Hampshire, said Ewan's 条件 was so bad she even started planning what he would wear for his funeral.?
にもかかわらず making a 'miraculous 回復' as a baby, Ewan's life was forever altered by the bacterial 感染, medically called pertussis.
He stopped breathing for 15 minutes at a time, 原因（となる）ing his brain to become 餓死するd of oxygen. He 苦しむd 永久の 損失 as a result.
Ewan cannot live 独立して, unable to 成し遂げる simple 仕事s like using the microwave and has the reading age of a five-year-old.
Medics believe Ewan 契約d the 病気 すぐに after he was born, and while it cannot be 証明するd, Mel ? who got 感染させるd when she was eight months 妊娠している ? too believes he caught it from her.
The 商売／仕事-owner said: 'It felt awful. When you've carried a baby for nine months and you're suddenly told you're likely to lose your child.
'I was thinking "how am I going to tell my two other children that their little baby brother was going to die?"
'I was planning his funeral, in my 長，率いる, like what he was going to wear, which is a bit crazy.
'I wonder if I could have lived knowing my child had died because of me. It was like a dream really, I kept 推定する／予想するing to wake up.'
Ewan cannot live 独立して, unable to 成し遂げる simple 仕事s like using microwave and had the reading age of a five-year-old
?Mel 勧めるd all 妊娠している women to get a whooping cough ワクチン まっただ中に 恐れるs a 現在の 突発／発生 could be the worst in 40 years sayin: 'Just get vaccinated. The 犯罪: I feel so, so 有罪の. Every time Ewan annoys me, or is upset, I think "I've done this to my child; he's brain 損失d because of me"
Newborn Ewan was put on life support at Southampton General Hospital.
He would 結局 be 空気／公表する-解除するd to Leicester, where doctors took the 劇の step of hooking him up to a ventilator, a machine that 効果的に took over from his 肺s, and 供給（する）d his 団体／死体 with oxygen.??
Mel 解任するd: 'When we got to Leicester, they said to us that "he will have some form of brain 損失 because of the 量 of times he'd stopped breathing and all the 麻薬s he was given to keep him alive".
'They said he could be 厳しく brain 損失d and, in a 車椅子, unable to speak.'
Ewan's 条件 徐々に 改善するd and he was able to go home at three months old.??
Looking 支援する on her own nightmarish experience, Mel said she 手配中の，お尋ね者 to 勧める parents to get their whooping cough ワクチン接種 in the 現在の 突発／発生.?
'To think there are parents going through what we went through, it's unnecessary. I don't think people are aware of how 不正に it can 影響する／感情 you,' she said.?
She said she was aware of はびこる misinformation on social マスコミ regarding whooping cough and 勧めるd people to get vaccinated instead.??
Health 公式の／役人s 警告するd that the 感染 is 最初 difficult to tell apart from a 冷淡な, as the first 調印するs are a runny nose and sore throat. But around a week later, 苦しんでいる人s may develop coughing 一区切り／（ボクシングなどの）試合s that last minutes, struggle to breathe after coughing and make a 'whoop' sound between coughs. Other 調印するs of whooping cough 含む bringing up a 厚い mucus that can 原因（となる） vomiting and becoming red in the 直面する
'Yesterday, I got a 地位，任命する from a friend that said, "if you've got whooping cough, have an onion drink and that will get rid of it", I couldn't believe that was supposed to be a 治療（薬）.
'Just get vaccinated. The 犯罪: I feel so, so 有罪の. Every time Ewan annoys me, or is upset, I think "I've done this to my child; he's brain 損失d because of me"
'I wouldn't want any other mother to go through this.'
The whooping cough ワクチン接種 is routinely by the NHS for all 妊娠している women, ideally between 16 and 32 weeks 妊娠している, though it can be given up to the point of 労働.
Doing so serves two 目的s. Firstly, antibodies that can 保護する the baby from the 感染 pass through the placenta 申し込む／申し出ing the newborn 保護 from whooping cough from birth and until they are old enough for their own ワクチン.?
Secondly, it 減ずるs the chances of the mother catching whooping cough herself, and inadvertently passing it to her newborn baby.
The NHS 明言する／公表するs that babies whose mothers were vaccinated against whooping cough have a 91 per cent 減ずるd chance of catching the 感染 compared to those born to unvaccinated mothers.
The whooping cough ワクチン is considered incredibly 安全な and routinely 申し込む／申し出d to 妊娠している women throughout the world.?
It comes まっただ中に 恐れるs the UK's 現在の whooping cough 突発／発生 could be the worst in 40 years.??
Nearly 3,000 事例／患者s of the 感染, also called pertussis or the 100-day cough, have already been 記録，記録的な／記録するd in 2024. This is treble the levels seen across the entirety of 2023.?
Nottingham, parts of むちの跡s, 物陰／風下d and Sheffield appear to be the hotspots.
But it is 普及した, only three of 330-加える 地区s across England and むちの跡s have yet to 報告（する）／憶測 any 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うd 事例／患者s this year, MailOnline 分析 明らかにする／漏らすs.?
Whooping cough is contagious as measles ? has killed five babies in the first ４半期/4分の1 of 2024. All were under the age of three months.?
Others have been left in 10 day 昏睡s from the 感染.??
Another 犠牲者, not yet 含むd in the 公式の／役人 （死傷者）数, is Evie-Grace 吊りくさび, who earlier this month at just 15 days old after catching whooping cough.?
Heartbroken parents Reece and Caitlin say she '悪化するd so quickly'.?
Her death means six babies have died in the 現在の 突発／発生, making it the deadliest in a １０年間.?
UK Health 安全 機関 bosses have 非難するd the 現在の 突発／発生 on a 安定した 拒絶する／低下する in the uptake of ワクチンs の中で expectant mums.?
専門家s say this is 予定 to a mixture of ワクチン hesitancy in the wake of Covid 同様に as a 欠如（する） of 認識／意識性.?
Just a ４半期/4分の1 of expectant mothers have had the pertussis jab in some boroughs of London. 率s are below half in other parts of the 資本／首都 and Birmingham.
Uptake of the six-in-one jab ? 申し込む／申し出d to babies in the first four months of life ? are also at an かつてない low.?
MailOnline understands that of the six babies known to have died of whooping cough in 2024, just two of their mothers were unvaccinated.?
Whooping cough, spread through coughs and sneezes, can 最初 be difficult to tell apart from a 冷淡な, with the first 調印するs typically 存在 a runny nose and sore throat.
But around a week later, 苦しんでいる人s may develop coughing 一区切り／（ボクシングなどの）試合s which last minutes, struggle to breathe after coughing and make a 'whoop' sound between coughs.
Other 調印するs of pertussis 含む bringing up a 厚い mucus that can 原因（となる） vomiting and becoming red in the 直面する.
苦しんでいる人s are 感染性の from around six days after 冷淡な-like symptoms begin to three weeks after their cough starts.
Doctors dish out 抗生物質s as 治療 if the whooping cough is （悪事，秘密などを）発見するd within three weeks.?
However, if a person has been 感染させるd for longer, 抗生物質s will not 速度(を上げる） up their 回復.
Whooping cough is いっそう少なく 厳しい in older children and adults but can still 原因（となる） sore ribs, hernias, ear 感染s and urinary incontinence の中で these groups.
