Spleen Registry - Mark's Story
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
- People living without a functioning spleen have a lifelong risk of critical infections. Mark lost his spleen during childhood and later as an adult he developed a life-threatening infection. He was unconscious in intensive care for a week, and doctors told his wife that he may not survive. Now recovered, Mark discusses with Penny Jones, the manager of Spleen Australia, how he stays well.
Spleen Australia, based at The Alfred hospital in Melbourne, is a clinical service that gives support and education to people and their health care providers to reduce the chances of acquiring bacterial infections. For more information, visit: spleen.org.au
I was pushed off a roof when I was 7 years old, broke my right arm in a few places, broke my nose, ruptured my spleen and had a concussion. I never was told about things to look for. Some years after that while in my early teen, I became very ill and was in the hospital for a few weeks only my parents could come in to see me, but only for a short time. To this day I don't know what I had. I'm my early twenties I started having cluster headaches that lasted until I was 40, don't miss them at all and often thought of suicide at that time the pain was so intense and unrelenting! I'm now 54 and I don't often get sick but when I do it can be rough like in 2009 I was hospitalized with an upper respiratory infection and some other viruses that they didn't know or tell me what they were!
You should get all the asplenia (no spleen) vaccinations ASAP - see spleen.org.au for the vaccination schedule. Print it off and take it to your doctor.
Famous person with no spleen - Geoff Boycott. He ran into the handle of a mangle at the age of 6 (not totally sure about this age - do not roast if wrong) and had to have the spleen removed. Apart from a propensity to stomach problems, he has been reasonably healthy during his life.
I haven’t had my spleen since I was 14, I was in a car accident. But, you know…every doctor that I’ve ever went to acts like it isn’t a big deal. No one tells my that I have to get vaccinations yearly. Now I have all sorts of problems and doctors can’t
Figure out what’s wrong with me. I’ve been wondering and trying to find out if having a splenectomy could lead to an autoimmune disorder later in life. But, I’ve had no luck.
My husband and his siblings have all had their spleens removed, (blood disorder) they all have autoimmune disorders, Crohn's, Ankylosing Spondylitis. No idea if this is a coincidence or has any relation to not having a spleen most of their lives.
I can't seem to find any information on what to eat and what not to eat without a spleen?
How to safe from Coronavirus?
Please enlighten me what’s gastro?
Gastro-enteritis - a common viral gut infection with diarrhoea and vomiting. Whether it was gastro-enteritis or not is a bit unclear; it may have have been the early signs of his sepsis.
It’s no fun not having this organ .. septic , many other yuk . It’s not a good time with out this no Spleen . So live good and enjoy is all I’m saying .