{"id":2199,"date":"2012-09-18T03:28:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T17:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=2199"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:47:40","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:47:40","slug":"zeke-harriso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/zeke-harriso\/","title":{"rendered":"The call that saved Zeke&#8217;s life"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2200\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2200\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2012\/09\/18\/zeke-harriso\/066661-zeke-harrison-and-jazmin-hall\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2200\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2200\" title=\"066661-zeke-harrison-and-jazmin-hall\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2012\/09\/066661-zeke-harrison-and-jazmin-hall-210x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RCH patient Zeke Harrison with mum Jazmin Hall. Photo courtesy of the Herald Sun.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When Zeke Harrison was just days old his mum, Jazmin Hall, knew there was something wrong with her new baby boy.<\/p>\n<p>Jazmin spent Zeke&#8217;s first days trying to work out what was causing her son&#8217;s symptoms, but it wasn&#8217;t until The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital (RCH) called with the results from Zeke&#8217;s newborn screening test, that she began to get some answers.<\/p>\n<p>The heel prick test, which is done in the first two or three days of life, was abnormal and an ambulance was sent to the family&#8217;s home\u00a0immediately.\u00a0Zeke was diagnosed with the rare metabolic disorder, maple syrup urine disease, which prevents the body breaking down parts of proteins.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All I knew was that an allergic reaction to protein was causing his brain to swell, and if they didn&#8217;t do something quickly he would die,&#8221; Ms Hall said.<\/p>\n<p>Zeke, now 21 months, can eat only 7g of protein a day and must have a high fat, high calorie diet.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"Zeke Harrison\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/victoria\/mum-jazmin-hall-tells-of-how-an-allergic-reaction-to-protein-enriched-milk-almost-killed-her-newborn-son-zeke-harrison\/story-e6frf7kx-1226476067565\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to read the full story on the Herald Sun website.<\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=story_body) --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zeke Harrison was diagnosed with the rare metabolic disorder, maple syrup urine disease, when he was just days old thanks to newborn screening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4945,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions\/4945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}