Colorado teen suffering from kidney failure after eating McDonald's quarter pounders, lawyer says

A lawyer representing 37 group impacted by McDonald's E.coli outbreak arsenic a consequence of eating 4th pounders has shared nan dire wellness impacts a 15-year-old Colorado woman knowledgeable arsenic a consequence of her fast-food choices.

Kamberlyn Bowler of Grand Junction "ate a Quarter Pounder pinch other pickles connected astatine slightest 2 occasions astatine nan extremity of September and early October," a property merchandise from Ron Simon & Associates provided to Fox News Digital states. The depletion of nan burgers led to her suffering from kidney nonaccomplishment and hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), nan rule patient alleges.  

Bowler first became sick pinch a gastrointestinal unwellness involving diarrhea and "intense abdomen and kidney pain," connected Oct. 8, her ineligible practice says.

"I couldn’t get retired of bed," Bowler told The Associated Press. "I couldn’t eat. I couldn’t drink. I was surviving connected Popsicles. I felt for illustration crap."

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Kamberlyn Bowler holds up her softball jersey successful this photograph taken by her mother. The Colorado teen was severely impacted health-wise aft consuming 4th pounders, her lawyer says. (Brittany Randall via Ron Simon and Associates)

Bowler was admitted to a infirmary 3 days later, wherever she developed HUS, which nan Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says is simply a "very superior complication of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) infection."

On Oct. 17, nan precocious schoolhouse freshman had to beryllium flown 250 miles to a infirmary adjacent Denver, wherever she received dialysis for 10 days successful an urgent effort to prevention her kidneys.

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Brittany Randall, left, and her daughter, Kamberlyn Bowler, airs for a photograph successful Grand Junction, Colorado, successful nan summertime of 2024. (Brittany Randall via AP)

A Monday update from nan U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service, shared by McDonald's, ruled retired beef arsenic nan root of nan E. coli outbreak. 

The Food and Drug Administration is successful nan midst of investigating whether Taylor Farms, which supplied slivered onions to McDonald's successful nan areas wherever nan E. coli outbreak occurred, is nan root of nan contamination. Fox News Digital reached retired to Taylor Farms for comment, but they did not instantly respond.

McDonald's said it has stopped sourcing onions from them indefinitely. 

The institution has told its beef suppliers to resume making nan caller patties and expects 4th pounders to beryllium disposable again astatine each stores complete nan coming week. 

However, slivered onions will still not yet beryllium disposable arsenic a topping successful nan locations impacted by nan outbreak. 

In a video shared by nan fast-food elephantine connected Sunday, McDonald's U.S. President Joe Erlinger addressed customers who are impacted.

"I besides want to reside customers who ate astatine McDonald’s and are emotion immoderate number of things: ill, scared, aliases uncertain," he said. "I cognize that our narration is built connected trust. You spot america to service you safe nutrient each time. On behalf of nan McDonald’s system, I want you to perceive from me: we are sorry. For those customers affected, you person my committedness that, led by our values: we will make this right."

A Quarter Pounder cheeseburger is served astatine a McDonald's edifice connected March 30, 2017 successful Effingham, Illinois. (Photo Illustration by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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As of Oct. 25, nan outbreak has resulted successful 75 cases crossed 13 states, according to nan Center for Disease and Control's latest figures. There person been 22 hospitalizations and 1 death.

"The infirmary bills are racking up," Bowler's mother, Brittany Randall, told nan AP aft being asked astir her daughter's early wellness and aesculapian costs. "And I'm a azygous mom and I conscionable don't cognize that I tin needfully spend each of what's coming aft each of this. And I don't cognize what nan early looks like, either."

Fox News' Daniella Genovese, Breck Dumas and The Associated Press contributed to this report.