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Medical validation:
September 13, 2022
Friday, September 9, journalist Hugo Clément revealed on Instagram that his daughter, Jim, had been hospitalized following a serious kidney infection: acute pyelonephritis.
Hugo Clément usually uses social networks to denounce all forms of animal abuse. But this Friday, September 9, he revealed that Jim, his two-year-old daughter from his relationship with Alexandra Rosenfeld, was in bad shape.
The girl had to receive intravenous antibiotic treatment
The former Daily columnist explained that Jim had to be hospitalized for a few days, ” the time of intravenous antibiotic treatment ” following ” a kidney infection (pyelonephritis), which causes high fever, up to 41 degrees. »
” She was KO but the doctors, nurses and auxiliaries of the hospital center of the Basque coast watched over her “, he specified, before adding ” We realize how lucky we are to live in France in this kind of moment “.
The father of the family took the opportunity to thank their pediatrician, but also the nursing staff of the hospital.
” A huge thank you to all the medical and paramedical teams who keep the public hospital at arm’s length, despite low salaries and a lack of resources. “, he specified.
Since then, the young parents have wanted to reassure Internet users: Jim is much better and seems to have already been released from the hospital.
Acute pyelonephritis: what is it?
It is a bacterial infection that usually affects only one of the two kidneys.
It often follows a urinary tract infection (acute cystitis). The germs – often of the Escherichia Coli bacteria type – rise from the urinary orifice and infect the kidney(s).
In sick infants, unlike adults, the symptoms are not very specific. We must think above all of the fever, but also of digestive disorders, changes in behavior…
In older children, urinary signs (urinary burning), high fever (+ 39°C) and lumbar and/or abdominal pain suggest the diagnosis.
In all cases, a urinary reactive strip and/or a cytobacteriological examination of the urine (ECBU) will be carried out.
On the treatment side, pyelonephritis is generally treated well: it heals in a few days thanks to prescribed antibiotics.
In the event of an abnormality of the urinary tract, the most common of which is vesico-uretero-renal reflux, surgery may be proposed.