Bella Brave 's health has taken a difficult turn. The TikToker —whose real name is Bella Thomson —has been intubated in the ICU and is now in a medically induced coma, her mom Kyla shared on social media. "They’ve told us they don’t know if she’ll survive this," Kyla wrote in a July 9 Instagram post .
"I know she will. I know she has an army praying for her." Just days before the update, Bella—who rose to fame by documenting her health struggles with Hirschsprung’s disease, a condition which impacts the bowel, and severe combined immunodeficiency—was battling a lung infection, which her mom shared had possibly developed into Bronchiolitis Obliterans, an "irreversible and chronic condition” also known as “popcorn lung,” according to the American Lung Association .
At first, Kyla thought Bella was overcoming the illness, explaining, "She mesmerized the doctors by sitting up, chatty, but requiring 100 percent o2 on bipap & a bunch of other remarkable things that in this situation typically, the average kid would already be sedated and intubated." But shortly after, the 10-year-old's health took a turn for the worse. "We started the lung steroids but then her ability to keep her own energy up enough to expand her lungs to breathe was getting harder," Kyla explained.
"She lost 4lbs in 1 day putting all her energy into breathing. Her co2 increased and she started to doze off & have delirium." As a result, Bella's medical team decided that "they needed to sedat.
