Logan, a four-year-old boy, is considered a true hero. The young American helped the emergency room take care of his mother who was having an epileptic seizure.
- Epilepsy is more common in children and the elderly, according to Ameli Santé.
- Each year, 40,000 new cases of epileptic seizures are recorded in France.
In France, nearly 600,000 people are affected by epilepsy, a chronic brain disease. The main manifestation of this pathology is the epileptic seizure which “is characterized by transient physical manifestations resulting from sudden and excessive electrical discharges of nerve impulses in the brain, true “lightning” through many neurons”according Ameli Healththe health insurance platform.
Epilepsy attack: the call of a little boy to help his mother
Kayla Mohr, an American living in the state of Wisconsin, has had epilepsy for ten years. In the event of a crisis, she had told Logan, her four-year-old son, that he should go and tell his father to help him.
However, one morning Kayla Mohr is hit by an epileptic fit as she prepares her children for school. For her part, her husband has already left for work. At the start of the episode, the young mother has time to sit down and call for help, but the crisis is becoming more and more serious and she is unable to answer the emergency operator’s questions.
“You can’t train a child to do that, it’s just instinct”
Logan then takes over. In the recording of the call broadcast by HLN, an American television affiliate of CNN, the young boy answers questions from the emergency room. In particular, he indicates that his mother is having a seizure and “that she is shaking in her head and legs”. He also specifies that she is not in ability to answer the phone when asked to do so by the operator. “Is your mother’s problem a seizure?”, asks the operator. Logan then replies yes.
An ambulance is sent to Kayla Mohr to take care of her. Meanwhile, Logan stayed on the phone with ER. His one-year-old sister is near him. “You can’t train a child to do that, it’s just instinct”Kayla Mohr told HLN.
To congratulate and thank him, Logan was received by the local sheriff and received a first aid certificate. He also met the emergency operator with whom he communicated.
