According to reports, the boy was seen crawling in the grass and placing leaves in his mouth like he would normally.

Parents of a 10-month old boy got the scare they needed after their son was exposed while playing in a San Francisco park.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle: Senna, the son Ivan and Kerina's Matkovic was visiting Moscone Park Tuesday when he began to lose consciousness. He had been crawling in grass and putting leaves into his mouth like he normally would.

Wendy Marroqui, a nanny, said that she shakes him and then she says, "So, I shake his hand and I'm like, Something's wrong.'" "I looked at his face and he seemed dizzy. "I thought he wasn't breathing."

She began CPR compressions, and called 9-1-1. The boy's father raced to her and found paramedics working on the boy when he arrived. After determining that there wasn't anything blocking the boy's airway, they used Narcan to treat the child for signs of drug overdose.

"All you know about your child is that he isn't breathing," Ivan said to NBC. Ivan recalled to NBC that he saw them helping his breathe. "These first responders saved my son's lives. We are so fortunate to have the man we did. We emerged from it with a positive story and can share our experience with others.

The boy was then taken to the hospital where he was confirmed to have been exposed to fentanyl. Since then, he was released and was seen with his twin brother during NBC's interview.

Matkovic showed the SF Chronicle a copy his son's hospital records. The record listed the child as suffering from an "accidental fentanyl-overdose", which was followed by "respiratory arrest." It also noted that the medical summary stated that the boy had undergone a urine fentanyl screen and other laboratory tests to confirm this. The Chronicle stated that they could verify that the record they were shown was consistent with the hospital’s after-visit summaries, letterhead, and the child's medical history. However, the hospital refused to release the records because of privacy.

The Chronicle was informed by a concerned father that it wasn't just dealers and people you don’t know who are affected. It's also tipping over to the wider population."

He said, "I wanted to let people be aware that this is an additional thing that you should add to your list of things to look out for as a parent, along with RSV and COVID and coyotes,"

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The department released a statement saying that San Francisco Police officers from Northern Station responded at 10:16 p.m. to a report about a male infant who had suffered a medical emergency. The witness was at Moscone Recreational park with the child when the medical emergency happened at 2:30 p.m. Officers met with her. The child was transported to the hospital by the San Francisco Fire Department in a life-threatening emergency. We are still investigating the cause of this medical emergency.

According to the fire department, they responded to a "pediatric patient suffering from cardiac arrest" and arrived on the scene "in 2 minutes", providing life-saving measures and reviving the patient. Both fire departments did not issue statements that referred to fentanyl.

Officials from the city said that no paraphernalia containing drugs was found on the scene. Matkovic claimed that authorities suggested to him that his child might have been exposed in powder form to the drug.

The father expressed his gratitude for the nanny who looked after his sons, saying that without her quick reactions and fast thinking, we wouldn't be here today.

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Title: 10-Month-Old Baby ODs on Fentanyl at San Francisco Park
Sourced From: toofab.com/2022/12/02/baby-fentanyl-san-francisco-park/
Published Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2022 16:24:54 +0000

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