Bengaluru: A 11-year-old boy from Challakere, Chitradurga District, who was treated to mucorikosis in Bengaluru exhaled his last breath on Wednesday.
He is the youngest patient diagnosed with fungal infection in the state.
The boy was first taken to the district hospital in Tumakuru in the last week of May with complaints of blurred vision.
He was referred to the Indian Child Health Institute of Indira Gandhi and shifted to Bowring Hospital and Lady Curzon on May 25.
“He suffered from Covid, and also has high diabetes (type 1).
He developed multiliagan inflammatory syndrome on Monday,” said Dr.
CN Reddy, Professor, Pediatrics, Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital.
According to a doctor, this is a case of diabetes of teenagers who are not detected which are the main risk factors in mukormycosis.
Although there was no clarity about the results of his progress, the boy tested Covid’s antibodies when he was taken to the boachring.
Mushrooms have influenced his left eye and he lost his vision.
The boy also developed abscesses in the brain frontal lobe and operated to remove mushroom debris in Nimhans in the first week of June.
During the last two days, the boy was in a non-invasive ventilator and he suffered a sudden heart attack on Wednesday afternoon, a doctor said.