Schoolgirl of sixteen on the pill died from blood, inquiry told

Sophie Murray began troubled to run to establishment and to bop when obtaining back from a family excursion to the Canaries final Gregorian calendar month.

Subsequent month she suggested a doc she felt she accustomed be “respiration through a straw”.

She was once prescribed associate degree inhalator for exercise-triggered respiratory disease however it had been ineffective, associate degree inquiry was educated.

Her mummy Shelley Crichton suggested the Dendroica fusca hearing Sophie woke on Gregorian calendar month eight locution she might not breathe previous she had a “match” and her “lips grew to become blue”. She was once rush to sickbay but died later that day.

Consultant specialist Dr Richard town mentioned that Sophie died of a embolism as a result of deep vein occlusion (DVT) and a contributing element was once the contraceptive device.

Assistant medical examiner Derek Baker stated: “These conditions during a lady this age area unit sporadic however area unit a acknowledged half influence of the pill she was prescribed and can even be evoked via protracted flights and also the immobility associated.”

Dr town mentioned Sophie, of Accrington, would have survived if the clot on her respiratory organ had been detected previous and controlled with blood-thinning healthful medicine.

GP Dr Paramundayil Joseph declared he had not regarded a analysis of DVT as Sophie was once young, not zaftig or a smoker, had no family history of the criticism and did not have swelling or tenderness in her legs.

The inquiry detected that Sophie was once utilising the traditional contraceptive Microgynon and a leaflet with the prescription warned however it “raises the prospect of developing a blood clot”.