A five-year-old girl who had been battling for her life against an E. coli infection lost her battle Thursday afternoon at Children’s Hospital.

Madison Faucheaux

Doctors said repeated tests showed no brain activity for Madison Faucheaux.

The young girl’s parents wanted to publicize their daughter’s situation to help other parents from suffering the same fate.

Doctors believe that Faucheaux contracted the infection when she wiped herself improperly after using the toilet and brought bacteria from her bowel into her urinary tract.

Faucheaux’s condition became noticeable when her parents were asked to pick her up from school for what seemed to be flu symptoms, but as time passed, her body began to shut down and go into shock.

“The doctor who was treating her at the time said, ‘you know, this could be just from wiping wrong,’” recalled her mother Jessica. “She did have a history of urinary tract infections.”

Madison was infected with E. Coli bacteria that can live in your gastrointestinal systems – and that may be how she got sick.

“It’s not as uncommon as you think, it’s just that usually it doesn’t run away with young people like this and in this unfortunate case it did lead to kidney failure and the lung failure and blood pressure problems,” said Dr. Steve Levine, Dir. PICU Children’s Hospital.