A lawyer representing 37 people affected by McDonald’s E.coli outbreak as a result of consuming a quarter pound shared the dire health effects a 15-year-old girl in Colorado experienced as a result of her fast food choices.

Kamberlyn Bowler by Grand Junction “ate a quarter pound of extra pickles at least twice in late September and early October,” according to a press release from Ron Simon & Associates provided to Fox News Digital. Eating the burgers caused her to suffer from kidney failure and hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), the law firm claims.

Bowler first became ill with a gastrointestinal illness involving diarrhea and “intense abdominal and kidney pain” on Oct. 8, her legal representation says.

“I couldn’t get out of bed,” Bowler told The Associated Press. “I couldn’t eat. I couldn’t drink. I was surviving on Popsicles. I felt like crap.”

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Kamberlyn Bowler holds up her softball jersey in this photo taken by her mother. The Colorado teenager was seriously affected by her health after consuming a quarter pound, her lawyer says. (Brittany Randall via Ron Simon and Associates)

Bowler was admitted to a hospital three days later, where he developed HUS, which was Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it’s a “very serious complication of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) infection.”

On Oct. 17, the high school freshman had to be flown 250 miles to a hospital near Denver, where he received dialysis for 10 days in an urgent effort to save his kidneys.

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Brittany Randall, left, and her daughter, Kamberlyn Bowler, pose for a photo in Grand Junction, Colorado, in the summer of 2024. (Brittany Randall via AP)

An update Monday from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, shared by McDonald’s, ruled out beef as the source of the E. coli outbreak.

The Food and Drug Administration is in the middle investigating whether Taylor Farmswhich supplied chopped onions to McDonald’s in the areas where the E. coli outbreak occurred, is the source of the contamination. Fox News Digital reached out to Taylor Farms for comment, but they did not immediately respond.

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

The company told its beef suppliers to resume production of fresh patties and they expect a quarter of a pound to be available again in all stores next week.

However, sliced ​​onions will not yet be available as a topping in locations affected by the outbreak.

In a video shared by the fast food giant on Sunday, McDonald’s US President Joe Erlinger addressed customers who are affected.

“I also want to reach out to customers who have eaten at McDonald’s and have a lot of things: sick, scared or unsure,” he said. “I know our relationship is built on trust. You trust us to serve you safe food every time. On behalf of the McDonald’s system, I want you to hear from me: we’re sorry. To those customers affected, you have my commitment. this , driven by our values: we will do it right.”

A Quarter Pounder cheeseburger is served at a McDonald’s restaurant on March 30, 2017 in Effingham, Illinois. (Photo illustration by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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As of Oct. 25, the outbreak has resulted in 75 cases in 13 states, according to the latest figures from the Centers for Disease Control. There were 22 hospitalizations and one death.

“The hospital bills are piling up,” Bowler’s mother, Brittany Randall, told the AP after being asked about her daughter’s future medical and health costs. “And I’m a single mom and I just don’t know that I can necessarily afford everything that comes after all of this. And I don’t even know what the future looks like.”

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