TikTok star Bella Brave dies aged 10, days after chronically-ill youngster was put in induced coma by doctors

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By Rachel Bowman and Melissa Koenig For Dailymail.Com

Published: 10:37 EDT, 15 July 2024 | Updated: 10:37 EDT, 15 July 2024

A 10-year-old TikTok prima died conscionable days aft she was put successful a medically-induced coma, her parents confirmed.

Bella Thompson, known to her fans arsenic Bella Brave, was calved pinch 3 debilitating familial conditions and became an net sensation for her inspirational videos.

The 10-year-old was placed successful a medically-induced coma after contracting a viral infection successful her lungs, her mother Kyla said connected Wednesday.

Kyla collapsed nan news that her girl passed distant Sunday day successful a devastating societal media post.

'Our brave woman near her bequest present connected world to creation connected streets of gold,' Kyla said. 'Bella passed peacefully successful our arms.'

TikTok prima Bella Brave, 10, has died conscionable days aft she was put successful a medically-induced coma aft contracting an infection successful her lungs

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Our brave woman near her bequest present connected world to creation connected streets of golden July 14th 2024 astatine 4:19pm ET Bella passed peacefully successful our arms. Please support her sanction connected your lips, her memories live and her bravery successful your hearts. Please stock pinch america each item of really she touched your life aliases kept you brave. Bella would want you to remember; God is love, beryllium brave and you are ne'er excessively aged to bring a stuffy. 🧸 #bellabrave

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'Please support her sanction connected your lips, her memories live and her bravery successful your hearts. Please stock pinch america each item of really she touched your life aliases kept you brave.

'Bella would want you to remember; God is love, beryllium brave and you are ne'er excessively aged to bring a stuffy.'

Kyla, a erstwhile nationalist schoolhouse coach who became her daughter's full-time caretaker, began posting astir Bella's journey successful 2014.

Bella was placed into a coma aft she contracted a virus, and whitethorn person developed Bronchiolitis Obliterans - a information that results successful nan obstruction of nan smallest airways of nan lungs owed to inflammation. 

Doctors said location had been a accelerated deterioration of Bella's lungs, which they believed could beryllium an immune response.

She was diagnosed pinch 3 familial conditions soon aft she was born, including Hirschprung's illness - which causes problems passing stool - and Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID).

Kyla antecedently explained that Bella's terrible aesculapian needs became evident erstwhile she was conscionable three-days-old.

'We were told that Bella suffered from a bowel illness called Hirschsprung, wherever parts of nan colon are dead,' she recounted successful 2022.

Bella's parents confirmed her decease successful a societal media station saying she passed distant successful their arms Sunday afternoon

She was diagnosed pinch 3 familial conditions soon aft she was born, including Hirschprung's illness and Severe Combined Immunodeficiency

Bella became an net sensation for her inspirational videos erstwhile her mother Kyla (left) began posting astir her travel successful 2014

'The information is caused by a familial mutation and successful nan first 8 months of her life, Bella had 3 operations to region nan dormant parts of her bowel.'

At 11 months, Bella's parents were told she besides has SCID - which meant she could dice from conscionable catching a communal cold.

Again nan consequence of a familial mutation, aft spending 2 months successful isolation successful hospital, because she could not consequence catching an infection, astatine 15 months old, she had a bony marrow transplant.

Her 3rd familial condition, a shape of dwarfism called cartilage hairsbreadth hypoplasia, was besides diagnosed astir that time.

The bony maturation upset which besides causes sparse hairsbreadth maturation and light-colored tegument intends she still has nan beingness build of a one-year-old.

To thief pinch nan Hirschprung's disease, Bella has had a number of bowel surgeries - including 1 conscionable past twelvemonth that her mother said she thought 'was expected to beryllium nan past aesculapian trauma she would ever person to endure.' 

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