DIVERSION TO AUS ARPT REQUIRED FOR DEPLANING AN ILL PAX THAT HAD EMBARKED AT MMGL; FO.

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ATC FACILITY: ZFW. LOCATION: 15 NM N OF SAT; ENRTE. DURING BOARDING; THE #1 FLT ATTENDANT CAME UP TO THE COCKPIT; CONCERNED ABOUT THE HEALTH OF ONE OF OUR PAX. THE PAX WAS AROUND 20 YRS OLD AND WAS A POST-OPERATIVE PATIENT THAT HAD BEEN OPERATED ON 4 DAYS BEFORE. THE PAX HAD VISIBLE STITCHES AND BRUISING AROUND THE NOSE; FACIAL SWELLING; AND HAD TROUBLE BOARDING THE AIRPLANE. THE 31 FLT ATTENDANT SAID THAT THE PAX ALSO HAD HAD FACIAL; CHEST AND ABDOMINAL COSMETIC SURGERY. THE GDL STATION MGR CAME OUT TO THE PLANE AND TOLD BOTH THE #1 FLT ATTENDANT AND MYSELF THAT STATION PERSONNEL HAD THE PAX CHKED OUT BY A MEDICAL DOCTOR AT THE ARPT AND THE PAX WAS OK TO TRAVEL. SHORTLY AFTER DEP; THE PAX RANG THE CALL BUTTON AND ASKED THE FLT ATTENDANT FOR THEIR BAG TO GET MEDICATION AND WANTED TO KNOW HOW MUCH LONGER THE FLT WOULD BE. WE FOUND OUT ALTER THAT THE PAX TOOK 2 KEFLEX (ANTIBIOTIC). ENRTE; AS WE WERE PASSING OVER SAT (14 MI N) THE #1 FLT ATTENDANT CALLED THE COCKPIT AND SAID THAT THE PAX WAS HAVING DIFFICULTY BREATHING AND WAS HAVING PAIN IN THE FACE; BREAST AND ABDOMEN. THE FLT ATTENDANTS WERE ADMINISTERING OXYGEN AND I ASKED THE #1 FLT ATTENDANT TO MAKE A PAX REQUESTING THE ASSISTANCE OF ANY MEDICAL DOCTORS ON BOARD. A PAX; DR X (AN ANESTHESIOLOGIST); CAME FORWARD TO ASSIST. THE FLT ATTENDANTS OPENED THE MEDICAL KIT AND THE DOCTOR TOOK THE PAX'S PULSE AND BLOOD PRESSURE. MEANWHILE; WE HAD ALREADY DECLARED A MEDICAL EMER AND STARTED A DSCNT FOR AUS; GIVEN THE BREATHING DIFFICULTY AND PREVIOUS SURGERY. THE DOCTOR RPTED AN ELEVATED PULSE 120-122 AND BLOOD PRESSURE 105/75. THE DOCTOR STATED THAT THE PAX WAS IN DISTRESS AND WE SHOULD LAND ASAP (AS TRANSLATED BY THE #1 FLT ATTENDANT). WE WERE APPROX 55 MI S OF AUS AT THE TIME OF THE DIVERT AND LANDED ABOUT 15 MINS LATER. THE FO CALLED AHEAD TO AUS AND THEY HAD EMT PERSONNEL WAITING. THE EMT'S CHKED THE PAX BUT THE PAX REFUSED TO DEPLANE. THE PAX SAID THAT THEY WERE FEELING BETTER AND WISHED TO CONTINUE TO DFW. I REQUESTED THAT THE PAX DEPLANE THE ACFT TO SEEK MEDICAL ATTN AND THAT WE WOULD ACCOMMODATE THEM AFTER A MEDICAL CHK-UP. THE PAX DEPLANED AND WE DEPARTED SHORTLY AFTER.