A 71-year-old South Korean with a passion for sushi paid for the addiction with an amputation of his hand. After eating raw seafood sushi, he developed a fever and his left arm was swollen and blistered. Doctors diagnosed him with a dangerous bacterial infection and after a long unsuccessful treatment were forced to amputate the patient's arm.
The South Korean paid dearly for his love of sushi. Favorite food, in the end, led to the fact that he lost his arm. One day, 12 hours after eating raw fish sushi, his left arm became swollen and began to hurt badly. Then she turned blue and blisters appeared on her. As it turned out, this was the result of a bacterial infection from eating raw seafood. Doctors treated the victim's hand and prescribed a course of antibiotics. But the treatment did not work: the infection developed, the arm began to rot and, in the end, the doctors had to amputate the man's left arm to the elbow.
The injured man lives in Jeonju City, about 200 kilometers from Seoul. As he said, before going to the doctor, he suffered for two days from fever and severe pain in his arm. According to him, pain in his arm and blisters appeared 12 hours after he ate raw seafood.
When the victim was admitted to the hospital, doctors found a blister measuring 3.5 x 4.5 centimeters on his palm, and several smaller blisters on the back of the hand and on the arm to the elbow. Doctors diagnosed him with vibriosis, an infection caused by bacteria of the species Vibrio vulnificus. This disease is not so rare - in the United States alone, up to 80,000 people get sick with it a year. Most often, infection occurs when eating raw fish and seafood. People in good health recover within a few days without any consequences. In elderly people, weakened people and, especially, those with diabetes, the disease can cause terrible complications and even death. This is what happened to a 71-year-old South Korean victim who suffered from type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and end-stage kidney disease.requiring regular dialysis. Doctors treated his arm and administered two types of antibiotics intravenously, but the patient's condition continued to deteriorate. 25 days after the patient ate the contaminated seafood, the arm had to be amputated to the elbow.
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Sometimes, eating raw seafood has even more dire consequences. So, 55-year-old Texas resident Jeanette LeBlanc, who received vibriosis after eating raw oysters, the infection killed in less than a month. LeBlanc went to Louisiana to visit friends. There, together with a friend, she ate raw oysters bought at the local market. The next day she felt bad. Her friend, Karen Bowers, says that at first they both thought Katherine was allergic. But two days later, LeBlanc became very ill, and she was sent to the hospital, where she was diagnosed with vibriosis. "This bacteria eats flesh," says LeBlanc's friend Vicky Bergkvit. "She had ulcers all over her legs." Jeanette LeBlanc died 21 days after the onset of the disease.
Varvara Lyutova