Eating bad food ended up becoming a nightmare for a young man from Boston, United States, who lost his legs after contracting an infection that spread rapidly, to the point that doctors found no other solution than to amputate the legs. lower limbs.
The commotion began when the teenager went to his friend’s house and ate chicken with pasta and rice that he had ordered from a restaurant the day before. Everything was imagined except that this decision, apparently habitual or without a problem for many, would be expensive and would lead him to the hospital, while in less than a week he would be in an intensive care unit.
New England Journal of Medicine compiled the case last year, which rose to prominence again in 2022 after an animated recreation of the route the infection took was made. The academic journal noted that the young man, whom it identified only as JC, had experienced no abnormalities the day after he ate these foods.
With the passing of the hours, things began to be in an alert scenario, after JC registered vomiting and abdominal pain. Those symptoms were followed by others such as chills, breathing complications and impaired vision; being the first indications that the health picture could lead to further complications.
The following was a series of tests, while the Bostonian assured that on a scale of 0 to 10, the pain that invaded him was 8. While various medications were administered, uncertainty surrounded family members and medical personnel who were waiting expectantly for the results to find out, for sure, what was happening.
final diagnosis
After half an hour from the first discomfort, already being in the hospital, breathing began to accelerate, for which it was necessary to provide him with oxygen assistance. The outlook for JC was not encouraging, as her blood pressure began to drop and what led to further confusion was that the pulse in one of her feet was low.
At that point, and after his condition worsened, the teenager was transferred to another hospital where he needed to be intubated. On his body, rashes and a “rapidly progressive” rash were noticeable, which ended up spreading to various areas such as the face, abdomen, chest and legs.
Finally, the medical team concluded that JC had contracted Neisseria meningitidis, a bacterial infection that caused damage to his liver and clots in his blood. This, and the development of gangrene, had led to a severe case of meningococcal septicemia and led to the loss of his legs from the knee, he concluded. New England Journal of Medicine.
WHO changes name of monkeypox
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced Monday that it was changing the name of monkeypox, in order to ensure that “racist and stigmatizing language” was not spread. From now on, this pathology will begin to be known as ‘mpox’, the abbreviation of the English nomenclature ‘monkeypox’.
The organism indicated that these denominations will begin to be used more frequently, while the traditional name will be eliminated little by little. This after considering that it had registered some problems with the designation with which, until now, this disease was known, as reported by Europa Press.
“When the monkeypox outbreak spread earlier this year, racist and stigmatizing language was observed and reported to WHO online, in other settings and in some communities. In various meetings, public and private, various people and countries raised their concerns and asked the WHO to propose a way to change the name,” the highest health authority said in a statement.