Cinco meses após sofrer acidente, Oluchi está 'totalmente recuperada'
Uma menina de dois anos sobreviveu sem sequelas após passar 18 minutos afogada em uma piscina em Londres.
Oluchi Nwaubani surpreendeu os médicos ao chegar ao hospital praticamente sem vida e três dias depois começar a respirar sozinha.
Na época, os médicos alertaram aos pais da criança que mesmo que ela sobrevivesse sofreria graves sequelas, como perda da fala e dos movimentos.
Cinco meses após o acidente, Oluchi está totalmente recuperada e, segundo seus pais, "vive correndo pela casa".
O pai de Oluchi, Junior Nwaubani, disse que logo depois da internação da menina, médicos sugeriram que os aparelhos fossem desligados.
"Eles disseram que ela não falaria ou andaria mais, que seria um vegetal", disse o pai da menina.
"Mas ela está andando, comendo normalmente e é capaz de expressar todos os seus desejos".
Água fria
Oluchi estava brincando no jardim da casa de amigos quando caiu na piscina. Ela só foi encontrada 20 minutos mais tarde, o dobro do tempo que o coração pode continuar batendo e o cérebro funcionando sem oxigênio.
Os médicos acreditam que uma combinação de fatores como socorro rápido, temperatura da água e a idade da menina fizeram a diferença entre a vida e a morte.
Ao contrário da crença popular, crianças pequenas são fortes. Elas têm o coração, pulmão e cérebro muito saudáveis", disse Ffin Davies, consultor do Royal College de Pediatria e Saúde infantil.
"Além disso, a água fira teria desacelerado o metabolismo do corpo e com isso é possível sobreviver por um bom tempo", explicou Davies.
Toddler makes full recovery after spending 20 minutes under water
A toddler who fell into a swimming pool and spent almost 20 minutes submerged under water has amazed doctors and defied medical science by making a full recovery.
By Nick Britten
She was not found for almost 20 minutes, double the amount of time the heart can normally keep beating without oxygen and three times longer than the brain can usually survive.
At the time doctors gave her only a two per cent chance of survival and discussed with her parents, Junior and Tayo, about turning off her life support machine. They were warned that even if she survived she would not be move, speak or eat properly.
Yet after three months in hospital Oluchi has defied medical expertise by making a full recovery and is now back at home.
Mr Nwaubani, 40, a prison officer, said: "The doctors said she would not be able to talk anymore, she would not walk again - she would be a vegetable.
"But she is walking, she is eating normally and she is able to say what she wants.
"They said she would never pass urine again because her kidney failed. But she is passing urine normally now.
"The doctors said that the amount of time she spent in the water meant she would never recover but when I asked her to say 'hello' to the doctor she tried to speak.
"And then I asked her to wave goodbye and she moved her hand.
"Her doctor said he couldn't believe what he had just witnessed. Staff were calling her a miracle baby."
Oluchi, who was two at the time, had gone with her two sisters Ria, 12 and five-year-old Amarachi to a friend's house in Bromley, Kent, last September.
The other girls had been playing on a trampoline in the front garden when Oluchi wandered out into the back garden where the covered pool was, and fell in.
She was airlifted to the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel before being transferred to Great Ormond Street, where brain scans revealed that she had starved of oxygen for 18 minutes.
Despite the bleak outlook, she started breathing on her own again after three days in intensive care and was soon came back to life.
Mr Nwaubani, from Petts Wood, London, said: "For days afterwards all we were being told was that our daughter had virtually no chance of survival because she had been under the water for too long.
"They told us it might be better to turn off her life support machine but my wife and I are both Christians and we just prayed to God that she would pull through
"The doctors said there was a faint pulse so we clung onto that."
The family are members of the Cornerstone Christian Centre in Bromley and say fellow worshippers around the world offered prayers of support for Oluchi, now three, throughout her time in hospital.
Mrs Nwaubani, 40, who works for the Department for International Development, said: "She seems to have defied doctors at every stage.
"It was hard to explain to her sisters that she was alive because they had seen her die at the pool."
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