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Ashlynn Scafidi Case Study
Ashlynn Scafidi is a 13 year old female who presents to our clinic for evaluation of abnormal EKG.
Ashlynn started to have URI symptoms on 05/12, next day she had decreased oral intake for solids as well as liquids. On 05/14/17, she went with her mother to Meijer in the morning to get cold medicine. She went first to garden section and picked out some plants. That when she start feeling nauseaous. When the went to the pharmacy section , he r nausea got worse and she felt dizzy with weakness and started to see spots. Mother noticed that she turned pale and she was "looking through her". Ashlynn did not lose her consciousness and her symptoms resolved in few minutes. No seizure like activity and she did not vomit. She went Rush Copley ER where

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