The cause of the death of a 6-year-old girl who passed away unexpectedly just hours after her father put her to bed recently near Manchester, England, is still unknown months later.
Isla Hutton’s father, David, sent her to bed because she was acting strangely, according to what he told the Manchester Evening News.
She entered the bed, but David Hutton reported that she refused to fall asleep. I was simply acting out of desperation because I sensed something was off.
On October 8, he hurried her to the hospital, but she passed away there soon after.
As David Hutton sat by his daughter’s bedside in the hospital, he remarked that time seemed to “fly by, but it was like slow motion.”
I spent the entire time by her side in the hospital, he claimed. She shouldn’t be in pain, in my opinion. I wanted her to remain the content little girl she once was if she ever turned up again. You could not have ever met a happier little child than she was.
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The cause of her death still isn’t known, the Evening News reported Sunday. But it’s thought that a pre-existing heart condition triggered either cardiac arrest or a seizure.
Soon after she was born, Isla Hutton was diagnosed with long QT syndrome. The disorder can cause rapid, irregular heartbeats, sudden fainting and seizures, and gives young people an increased risk of sudden death, according to the Mayo Clinic.
She spent nearly a year in the hospital after being born and fitted with a pacemaker.
Over the course of her short life, she became a mascot of sorts for a company working to treat long QT called Thryv Therapeutics. She helped the company secure more than $15 million for its research, the Evening News reported.
The company described Isla Hutton as “our inspiration to break barriers and move as fast as we can.”
David Hutton is raising money for child patients at the Great Ormond Street Hospital, a key UK center for child heart surgery. He has already raised £1,206, and more can be contributed here.
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