Can giving vancomiacin to a low blood platelette preemie baby be dealy?

[Tsuki]

Ok here is my biggest problem. My son who passed away the 27th of last year was an extremely premature baby. He was 26 weeks 2 days gestation when born and weighed 1 pound 2 ounces. He gradually started gaining weight and fought everyday of his life. Near Christmas of last year, he was almost down to 1 liter of oxygen and was about to come home. The following day the doctors gave him vacomiacin and genomiacin for reasons I am not sure of.After that day my son just got worse and worse. He was put back on a TPN from being mostly bottle fed and was put back on a ventilater. He passed away 2 months later. I just learned recently that Vacomiacin can cause low blood platlettes and this troubles me.The reason it troubles me is because my son's platlettes never got past 100 on a good day and the average amount a person is suppose to have is 150(I mean in the thousands by the way). He had started out with trouble in his liver and eventually went into kidney failure. His liver was 3 times the size of a normal babies and he had Jaundice so bad that he cried yellow tears. This was all caused from the TPN. So my question really is:

Can vancomiacin be deadly to a low blood platelette baby? Could it have really caused all this to happen?

If you need more info I have everything right here in his medical report but unfortunately none of the doctors had any idea what went wrong.

Please excuse all the misspelling and thanks for your help.

[caregiver222]

The answer is "possibly". I am very critical of medical malpractice and have sent more than one M.D. to prison to contribute to the community by producing license plates, however in this case there is always a "risk-benefit" situation. I truly believe they were attempting to save your son's life. I am equally sure that every member of the team involves suffers from guilt and will do so forever. When there is clear and present evidence of malpractice I have no problem in going for the throat. In this case I would let sleeping dogs lie. I doubt whether you will ever really know whether this drug administration contributed to you son's death. I am sure the physicians felt that to withold these medications would have resulted in his death. Sometimes there are no good choices. And sometimes there are unanswerable questions. I have a great deal of sympathy for the physician(s) involved.  Physicians are not cold-hearted monsters, especially when dealing with babies. You have my condolances, but I am sure that doesn't help very much.

[Tsuki]

Which forum would be a good one to ask in though?

[Renee Radenberg]

I can not answer that question. You need to ask it in a different forum. Sorry I could not help you.