Super healthy teen fights kidney failure after eating McDonalds Quarter Pounders in weeks leading up to deadly E. coli outbreak

A Colorado teen was hospitalized for kidney failure after allegedly chowing down on a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder with cheese in the weeks leading up to the fast food chain’s deadly E.coli outbreak.Kamberlyn Bowler, 15, a freshman and softball player at Grand Junction High School, had a clean bill of health until mid-October, when she started exhibiting flu-like symptoms, including a high fever and stomach pain, according to NBC News.“We both kind of thought I just had a fever, like just the flu or something — a stomach bug,” Bowler told the outlet.“But then I started throwing up, having diarrhea, and it was bloody, so it scared me.”Her local doctor believed it could be her appendix and recommended she be taken to the emergency room, her mother, Brittany Randall, said.However, scans at the hospital didn’t show anything significant, so the teen was brought home — but her symptoms only worsened.“I think it was day six that she said: ‘Something’s not right.I don’t feel good.

I need to go back to the hospital,’” her mother shared.During her second visit, a test revealed that the teen was in kidney failure due to a severe E.coli infection.Bowler was diagnosed with enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli-associated hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), a rare complication of an E.

coli infection caused by the bacteria attacking the kidneys.She was then airlifted 250 miles to Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora on Oct.18, where she received dialysis for 10 days in an urgent effort to save her kidneys.It was then revealed the teen had been to McDonald’s multiple times in the weeks before she started feeling ill, ordering her favorite meal: a Quarter Pounder with cheese and extra pickles.Bowler is now one of at least 75 people, 22 of whom were hospitalized, believed to have been sickened by the slivered onions atop the famous burger.Of those affected by the outbreak, 11 of them were from Mesa County — where Bowler lives — and one has died, ac...