Bella Brave, a 10-year-old internet personality, is currently intubated and in a medically induced coma, her mother says. The young TikToker -- whose real name is Bella Thomson -- amassed millions of followers on the social media app for documenting her struggles with immunodeficiencies and Hirschsprung’s disease, a congenital condition that causes intestinal and bowel issues, according to the Cleveland Clinic . In a post to Bella's Instagram on Tuesday, the social media creator's mother, Kyla Thomson, updated fans on her daughter's condition, just days after revealing that her daughter was battling a lung infection.
"Bella is stable & intubated in the ICU," Kyla wrote, adding that doctors believe her infection may stem from Bronchiolitis Obliterans, also known as "popcorn lung." "They've told us they don't know if she’ll survive this. I know she will.
I know she has an army praying for her." Heartbreakingly, Kyla continued her post by sharing details of Bella's current condition -- telling their more than 335,000 followers that Bella was struggling to breathe and on "100% o2" prior to her intubation. In a later update, Kyla shared that the reason for her daughter's "rapid" deterioration is still a mystery to doctors.
"There has been a rapid fibrosis like deterioration of Bella’s lungs. They believe it could be an immune response. They’ve seen this post BMT but why it’s happening now and this fast is unknown to them.
The one option they have left to help her lungs w.