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[nurturing_angel]

I have a question that has driven me crazy for many years. I am hoping that someone here will be able to help me. I have done tons of internet research and asked countless number of health care workers and no one knows.

Years ago (1940's) my mother had a baby boy die at the age of 6 weeks by what the doctor at the time called "bohives". What exactly is "bohives"? I am trying to figure out what it would be called today. I see references to it occasionally on the internet but no explanation as to what the heck it is or what it is comparable to in todays diagnosis's. I am almost to the point of thinking the doctor didn't know what the heck happened and just made something up.

Help!

[CT Pixie, BSN, RN]

I got nothing but "check spelling" when doing a search for bohives. Is it possible your mom is pronouncing it wrong? Would it be possible to get a copy of your infant brothers death certificate? With that in hand you could see the determined COD. And if it is "bohives" maybe its spelled differently?

[KJRN79]

Ok, I tried searching for bohives too, then I tried infant hives...and then I found infant botulism from honey. I wonder if it could be that? Search for infant botulism and read the symptoms. Maybe it will make sense to you (or your mom!) Good luck.

[CT Pixie, BSN, RN]

botulism from honey would make sense since they (my daughters peditricians) were emphatic that I NOT give them honey until they were well over a year old due to infants dying from botulism from honey.

Humm, wonder if thats what it was.

[nurturing_angel]

Thanks for the responses. I will research this. No luck so far getting death certificate. Brother died in Kentucky in the early 1940's....was a death certificate ever filed?

[Altra, BSN, RN]

All states have offices of vital statistics - birth/death/marriage records, etc. I simply googled Kentucky vital statistics.

http://chfs.ky.gov/dph/vital/deathcert.htm

Good luck w/your search.