But they say, 'Oh, scarlet fever! That's deadly! But that's just my perspective," Tarini says. Meanwhile, say "scarlet fever" to a worried parent, and he or she hears something that's dire and dangerous, thanks to the stories they remember of Mary Ingalls' blindness or Beth March's death.
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Mary Ingalls from the "Little House on the Prairie" series got a bad case of scarlet fever and went blind. But new medical research shows that the real life older sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder may have suffered from a brain infection instead , reports CNN.
The real Mary Ingalls did go blind when she was 14, in Most often, the enlarged tongue is very red, like a strawberry or raspberry. Strawberry tongue isn't itself a condition. A red, bumpy tongue with enlarged taste buds are symptoms of an underlying condition or disorder. These bacteria release a poison toxin that travels through your child's bloodstream and causes a rash.
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Nervous system. The television version of Mary Ingalls became a teacher in a school for the blind and married a blind fellow teacher, Adam Kendall, who was portrayed by Linwood Boomer. The real Mary Ingalls never became a teacher nor married but returned to De Smet to live with her parents after graduating from Vinton. Group B strep can infect the blood. It can also cause inflammation of the baby's lungs, brain, or spinal cord. Long-term effects can include blindness , deafness, mental retardation, or cerebral palsy.
And in rare cases, infection causes death. Viral meningitis is inflammation of the leptomeninges as a manifestation of central nervous system CNS infection. T1-weighted MRI of brain demonstrates diffuse enhancement of the meninges in viral meningoencephalitis.
Early marriage years Ingalls ' teaching career and studies ended when the year- old Laura married year- old Almanzo Wilder on August 25, Beth Tarini, an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, said a conversation she had in medical school sparked her investigation into the cause of Ingalls' blindness. According to the beloved book series, Ingalls went blind in at the age of 14 due to scarlet fever. Tarini's team pulled up newspaper reports, Wilder's memoirs and letters and school registries for further evidence.
Wilder wrote in her memoirs that her sister had become sick with head pains, had a high fever and went delirious. She then said that Ingalls' face looked "drawn out of shape," which her mother later told her was a stroke. As Mary recovered, her eyesight diminished. A doctor told the family "the nerves of her eyes had had the worst of the stroke and were dying, that nothing could be done.
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