SAD:Girl,16, dies from blood clot linked to taking contraceptive pills.

Sophie Murray, 16, died of a pulmonary embolism due to deep vein thrombosis caused in part by taking the oral contraceptive pill.
A teenage girl who was on the contraceptive pill died from an 'extremely rare' blood clot after returning home from a family holiday, an inquest heard.

Sophie Murray, 16, had been prescribed the pill for around eight months by the time she returned from Gran Canaria last September.

But two weeks later, the "happy and healthy" teenager, from Accrington, started complaining of breathlessness and chest pain.
Blackburn Coroners Court heard how tests by her GP confirmed she was suffering from exercise induced asthma (EIA)

She was prescribed an inhaler, however it was ineffective.
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Mum Shelley Crichton told the hearing how Sophie woke up on November 8 last year saying she couldn’t breathe and shortly after had a ‘fit’ and her ‘lips turned blue’.

She was rushed to hospital however passed away later that day.

Dr Richard Prescott said Sophie died of a pulmonary embolism due to deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and a contributory factor was the oral contraceptive pill.

He told the hearing that the ‘large clot’ was 8mm in diameter and if it had been detected earlier she could have been given blood thinners and survived.

The inquest heard how Sophie was using the ‘common’ pill Microgynon and a leaflet accompanying the prescription warned how using it ‘increases the risk of developing a blood clot’ and in ‘very rare cases’ a blood clot can form but it is ‘very rarely fatal’.

Mum Shelley told the hearing how Sophie’s breathing had got worse since returning from holiday and she was struggling to walk to school, dance or enjoy exercise DVDs and complained her body was ‘aching’.

The inquest heard how Shelley and Sophie visited Dr Paramundayil Joseph at the Dill Hall surgery in Accrington on October 15 after feeling like she was ‘breathing through a straw’.

The GP said he ordered tests which later confirmed EIA and Sophie was prescribed an inhaler.
However she later returned on November 5 – three days before her death – to say it ‘didn’t do anything’ and was prescribed a different inhaler and a tablet to help with her breathing before exercise.