Girl, 17, dies just 48 hours after 契約ing swine flu in hospital

Natalie Hill weighed ju
st 2.2lbs when she was born in 1993. She died on December 15th 2010 at Hull Royal Infirmary

Natalie Hill 重さを計るd just 2.2lbs when she was born in 1993. She died on December 15th 2010 at 船体 王室の Infirmary

A teenage girl is the 最新の person to die from swine flu after she 契約d the ウイルス in hospital.

Natalie Hill, 17, passed away いっそう少なく than 48 hours after doctors at 船体 王室の Infirmary discovered she had the H1N1 ウイルス. She was also 苦しむing from a heart 条件 and 血 毒(薬)ing.

Yesterday her 荒廃させるd parents paid 尊敬の印 to a 'delightful' daughter.

The 十代の少年少女 苦しむd from serious health problems all her life and was in hospital because of 複雑化s from a rare 条件 she has 戦う/戦いd since birth, when she 選ぶd up swine flu.

Born 重さを計るing just 2lbs and with a 条件 that destroys part of the intestines, she spent the first nine months of her life in a specialist 集中的な care 部隊.

最初 doctors didn't said it would be a '奇蹟' if she lived past five years of age, but she 反抗するd 期待s.

Her mother Mother Carol Hill, 50, from 船体, said:'She was a blessing in so many ways and made our family stronger. We just tried to give her everything a child would ever want. she has brought us all 広大な/多数の/重要な joy.'

Over the years, her 条件 より悪くするd, resulting in the loss of her sight and 審理,公聴会. To 保護する her 組織/臓器s from the 条件 necrotising enterocolitis, she was fitted with a feeding tube.

To 追加する to her problems 行方不明になる Hill was also 診断するd with another 条件 in which the heart's main artery stops 機能(する)/行事ing.

行方不明になる Hill was 認める to the hospital's high dependency 部隊 five months ago because of 負わせる loss associated with the feeding tube.

Natalie Hill, 17, suffered from health problems all her life. She died at the Hull Royal Infirmary and one contributory factory was the H1N1 virus

行方不明になる Hill 苦しむd from health problems all her life. She died at the 船体 王室の Infirmary and one contributory factory was the H1N1 ウイルス

Mrs Hill said she believed Natalie caught swine flu from someone in the hospital, but the family was not 非難するing the hospital for her death.

Her husband Michael, 58, 追加するd:'We were getting worried because she was not feeding and was losing a lot of 負わせる. The septicaemia was (悪事,秘密などを)発見するd 72 hours before she passed away and a day or so later they said she had swine flu.

'She gave us so much love - something that parents with healthy children can so easily take for 認めるd.'

行方不明になる Hill died on 15 December leaving sisters Clare, 26, Deborah, 25, Julie, 22, and Kimberley, 18.

Mrs Hill, who has been her daughter's 最初の/主要な carer since birth, said: 'When someone passes away at Christmas it is always hard. But it will mean we will always remember her each Christmas and that is something we are 感謝する for.'

船体 And East Riding Yorkshire Hospitals NHS 信用, which runs 船体 王室の Infirmary, said swine flu played a part in her death.

A spokeswoman said swine flu was a 'contributory factor' but Natalie had 'serious underlying illness.'

'This is 明確に a 悲劇の 事例/患者 and we would 延長する our sympathies to the family at this very difficult time,' she said.

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