Under the Skin - Flesh Eating Bacteria Story
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- Опубликовано: 25 май 2016
- When Karen arrived at the ER throbbing in pain, she thought she had the flu. Little did she know that her body was under attack by flesh-eating bacteria that would threaten her arm and her life. Thanks to the fast-acting emergency medicine team and wound care experts in Katy, Karen is fully healed and back to playing games with her grand kids.
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My mom got the disease and waited until she was clinically dead and had emergency surgery and was in ICU for 8 weeks with 5 of those weeks she was in a medical induced coma. Thank you Dearborn County Hospital for saving my mom.
Sue those fockers
@@psgamer3741 tf they do to you
How did she get treatment if she was clinically dead? No surgery is gonna fix that. I smell B.S.
@@psgamer3741 Why?
@@psgamer3741
"my mom got the disease and waited until she was clinically dead"
I think he means she ignored the symptoms until it was no longer something you can ignore. She wasn't even in a hospital until she essentially died.
I lost my mom to this and sepsis. It had unfortunately continued to spread after surgery, and I tried one more surgery, before it was choosing to let her go. I’m glad that there are many who are surviving.
a year and a half ago, I lost my father due to this serious disease, and the doctor did not recognize the symptoms in time, so it is worthwhile to inform yourself about this dangerous disease that starts with a fever and slight redness of the skin
I'm a Survivor of under the skin necrotizing fasciitis I had it from the buttocks all the way through the scrotum and into my Superior abdomen I was in a coma for two weeks then the hospital for two months I had e coli necrotizing fasciitis fournier's gangrene and septic shock all at once six operations leader I'm very grateful to be alive
I would love to talk to you can you please call me 714 470 3742
What causes it? Do you know?
What caused it
Causes pls?
Glad you are well now.
It's good your alive I'm too scared to swim in the ocean because there is dumb people out there they don't care
Kudos to the doc for deciding to have her stay for observation despite the tests...when people come in because they don’t feel right, listen and check, then check again!
These doctors are heroes!
They are gods
My stepdad has just recently finished his battle with Necrotising Fasciitis, went into hospital 18th Dec 2018 and is still currently there, he’s had 9 surgeries as unfortunately lost his leg due to the infection, it’s a horrible thing to have and I would never wish it upon my worst enemy
What's the causes of this thing?
amazoner0cks It’s a bacteria that infects you by getting through a break in your skin.
My childhood friend went to work one day, got home and started complaining about pain in her shoulder...She went to the ER and they did 2 emergency surgeries on her...After 36 hours of arriving at the ER she died from flesh eating bacteria...She had a small scrape on her shoulder that started it..That's been a year ago...
I've been going through something like this for 5 years I live in a smaller town and when the doctors don't know what it is they make their own diagnosis I pray for your father and hope that his suffering will be over soon and that he will be on the mend.
🙏
I'm a survivor of NF in 2015 at age 21 got it in my left arm pit was a coma for three weeks with multiple organ failure, then once stable I was moved to a burns unit for skin graft and closure. Still get small infections and terrible in my scar tissue to this day but it's better than being dead.
That is ABSOLUTELY MIRACULOUS! I can tell by the name of the hospital that she was in Houston TX…one of the finest medical complexes and communities in the country. You don’t hear of many people AT ALL coming out of having this awful type of infection with all of their limbs, let alone their lives! So glad for her. I thought from just seeing the beginning of this video that she didn’t make it, being that it was all over her chest AND arm!
Damn I just got out Memorial Hermann with the same thing. Thanks to the great docs for saving my arm after 3 operations
I hope your ok!!!
The scary thing is that this bacteria lives in a lot of places ._.
It lives on most peoples skin.
My son got this disease in 2019 a fine strong fit man who was In the defense forces this disease nearly killed him thank god for the medical team in the Mercy Hospital in Cork City Ireland who not only saved his life but also saved his leg I can never thank them enough god bless them all.
These doctors are amazing! This restored my faith in the medical profession because too often I see many who fail their patients! Great story!
The way her husband loves her......There are no words...
But does she love him the same wayyyy........hmmmm🤔🤔🤔🤔
my uncle just passed away from the deasese, I'm gonna miss him
Sorry😔 rip uncle
My condolences for your loss and may God grant his soul rest
Bless do not grieve , for you shall see him again, we are promised to be resurrected,, by his majesty!
Sorry about that man that stinks
My girlfriends dad went through 40+ surgeries. It traveled from his lower wrist up his arm and across his chest. He unfortunately lost his arm, after being admitted for two and a half months. The doctors had him on a respiratory system for too long and collapsed his right lung, and never really gave us updates on how he was doing. We were certain we were gonna lose him but somehow he overcame the bacteria after many many many pain staking hours.
This is a tragic. Very informative video
bless this woman and her family.
Just watching this made me cry and feel better
I don’t think I would miss a treatment if I had that.
Glad she’s ok
Stay strong my did may God be with you
Thank God for an up to date medical team. Thank God she is going to be alright.
God bless her and her family. This is crazy that there is this.
NF survivor since 2001. Just remembering the pain and fear still brings me to tears 23 years later.
My husband just died from flesh eating bacteria. The doctors said all they could do is give him triple antibiotics. I called another hospital and explained he had flesh eating bacteria. They told me there was other treatment options. My husband's doctor wouldn't approve of the hospital transfer nor let him leave the hospital. They sedated him early in the morning and he passed away later that day.
I’m so sorry to hear of you and your husband’s suffering.
I am a survivor of necrotizing fasciitis. It is a struggle for me every single day. I have pain every single day.
Where u get
I'm sorry for your loss those who mentioned looking someone to it. I just got out of the hospital here after almost two months it was one my back. Mentally it was almost as rough as the disease as I have a major scar on my back and I almost died before getting to the hospital
This is the group of disorders that my mother is really passionate about
I know what she was going through I almost lost my life 6 months ago do the necrotizing fasciitis God's grace I survived 6 operations later and 2 months in the hospital
What causes it
@@flash2k807 It is a bacterial infection, from my understanding it is usually caused by rare strains of Streptococcus pyogenes, which is the same species that causes strept throat. The strain that causes necrotizing fasciitis is able to exhibit a variety of enzymes that break down hyaluronic acid between cells, bursts cells, and dissolve blood clots.
@@utnapishtim1039 so basically, its pretty much having corrosive acid in your blood stream, muscle tissue, and even bones?
@@thefunnyman3008 Not quite. The bacterium synthesizes a mixture of proteins that have the ability of triggering certain chemical reactions. Proteins like hyaluronidase can break down a component of the extracellular matrix called hyaluronic acid (which is a vital chemical in the human body), streptokinase is another protein that can dissolve blood clots which allows the infection to spread. These enzymes and others all come together to form the effects visible in this disease.
@@utnapishtim1039 oh, so it dissolves blood clots which allows it to spread very quick, and it destroys a vital chemical for the human body?
my problems is very small
This is 10 videos i watched about this diseased and not 1 ine them tell the audience how the patients got them. Selling feeling is more important, than educating people right guys?
You get the bacteria from warm open waters through cuts, scrapes, or bruises. I think there's more but idk one example is the gulf of Mexico
@Piatequila yeah exactly so where is answer?
It’s not earth 🌍 killing people is “Synthia “ biosynthetic bacteria 🦠 mutated crawling to earth from water 💦 .... this moment it’s Coronavirus form so aggressive !!!
You get it from a wound. It can be as small as an injection site. No one really knows unless it is post surgical or a clear wound. I got it from a small cyst that drained over night I had it when I woke up and went to the floor. It took me a longtime to crawl to the phone and 911
@@alijajakubovskaja6474 that is so wrong on so many levels
Any updates about the mom in this video would be appreciated please n thank you
These doctors are amazing. My mother has necrosis and was never treated with such help and perseverance. I lost her on 9/26/19 and miss her so much.
What country
There was a girl who swimmed in the river in GA then she got this or something very close!! She lost her arms & legs but did survive!! Hope she's doing ok!! Very sad i think she was a teen happend about 8 years ago....
Nice family
RIP Rhonda Jo Albury....10/2007 a victim of necrotizing fasciitis.
Imagine playing your favorite video game only to realize your body is getting eaten alive
that happen to me i don't know how i cought it. my left leg swelled up couldn't walk. went to the hospital doctor look at. was goin to give me antibiotic and send me home but a second opinion. so 5 surgery. back to back 3weeks in hospital. 1 month of therapy. still have my leg. doctor told me if I didnt come in. waited a day i would of lose my my leg. so im very thankfull for the doctor, surgen, and nurse that help me thur recovery..
Thanks to the great staff at Piedmont in Athens GA , I'M alive and doing great . i stepped on something evil in my yard ,12 hours later they took my leg , it was a systemic situation and they used last option medicines to treat me . the Drs didn't mess around . i get my new leg in 3 weeks
Jesus bless you
Hamilton Smith created this .... how did he received Award !!!!! Outraged
just happen in st. Pete beach fl.and the woman lost her leg.she had a little cut under her foot and she just walked by the ocean..be carefully people it's real and scary!!!
percentage of getting necrotizing fasciitis from Streptococcus pyogenes bacteria? from which sourse one can caugh necrotizing fasciitis 100%?
What is the root cause analysis for the flesh eating bacteria?
@Piatequila It's scary. I heard one lady got it through her filtered water
I heard it was from sands at beaches
Im never going to beaches ever again
It’s a mostly water based infection....so warmer waters, with more nitrate=breading grounds for bacteria
Actually very littleis known. Very odd for doctors and specialists to understand so little bout it. Like why not everyone gets it and others who are healthy get it. And if its the same bacteria that causes strep throat then why dont you get necrotizing fasciitis if your throat becomes inflamed or of you rub your nose to hard and break the skin??
I was stapling my hand and i said my mom and she shaid do you know what a flesh eating bacteria is?
I have this on my leg.hospital for a month. Three surgeries later . I m alive
These bacterias are like too insane
i respect this Karen, but not the others
As a child I use to swim in filthy ponds and creeks, many times I would get cuts from the broken glass at the bottom of these places and I was fine and still jump and continue swimming in them.
Never me or any of my buddies had even an infection much less flesh eating bacteria.
But all this happened in Europe I guess we don’t have this kind of bacteria there.
@Michael Hi, I'm in Europe and caught this disease after an allergic reaction (causing a rash) to chemotherapy for cancer. The doctors have no idea how it started, especially as I was being so careful with hygiene. It destroyed 30% of the muscles and skin on my back. I was in ICU, induced coma for 3 weeks, also developed sepsis, 12 operations and nearly 3 months in hospital. But, thank God, I'm still here, disabled but alive.
Everyone can have the bacteria, but only a few people have a weak inmune system, due to many factors
is necrotizing fasciitis spread from patient's (infected patient's) saliva ?
How much was the cost?
Can y’all drop the stories under this comment of where they or you caught the bacteria this is crazy stuff
I survived this but the mental and physical damage is life long
how you infected from necrotizing fasciitis bacteria ?
@@success1513 I had surgery for my colon and 2 weeks after I had this
@@keeya_ks this disease also required surgeries have u done ?
@@success1513 yes many surgeries
So…this is just mrsa? Why did it grow out of control so fast?
I mean let’s be honest - I literally had an infection and it went away with a three antibiotic treatment and bleach bathes. Why is this strain so fast spreading?
My 28 year old brother died due tis septic but we are not sure how he got and also he has diagnosed with multi organ failure after surgery he has died
I’m currently recovering from necrotizing fasciitis. My entire left buttock cheek was surgically removed all the way down to the muscle. Two surgeries, two and a half months of daily hyperbaric chamber treatments, and wearing a wound vac, I am on the mend . My site has gone from an 8. Inch round area to now is the size of a 50cent piece. Unfortunately, I had a culture of the area done last week and it came back abnormal for streptococcus agalacteia type b, so I’m on antibiotics currently. I was hoping to be better 😢
Sending you healing vibes and love ❤
Hope your feeling better and have a support system. From a NF survivor.
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Honor to God!
Your make-believe buddy doesn't exist. Science does.
Hello dear is there anyone here who could answer me..what is doctor name...his complete name...because I want to ask him what is the right medecine for flesh eating bacteria...thank you ..from Philippines ..Marjorie Bea
How did she get it?
These bacteria are common in warmer polluted/nitrate rich water. (Caused from farm runoff) Once these chemicals get in the water the bacteria om nom noms on them, splitting and growing faster due to abundance of food and warmth.
*Karen*
Me: Huh. Must have named her wrong.
I have strep A as we speak. The dr said it was beginning to get i to my flesh. He said if I feel ANY pain at all go directly to the ER, do not pass go, do not collect 200 lol. I came back with results for flu, streptococcal pnumonia, strep A and scarlet fever. The strep was ravaging.my body and begun turning necrotic on the back of my throat and tonsil. It was small spots the dr said let the body remove it, it wasn't large enough for surgery they hoped. been 3 days. My tonsil still feels like a rock is in .y throat and there is...a lot of blood but the pain is gone...ish. The dr was baffled. He came back asking how I was even still alive. My herbs baby. I lived like this for a week before I threw in the towel lol.
How this can happen ? ( Just like that or it is cozied by something
According to the doctor my mom could have gotten it in an open soar from my local lake or got it from walking outside barefoot
That's great news. Maybe these great doctors could come to Australia and teach these doctors here that not everyone with similar amoeba coursing through their skin are meth junkies seeing meth bugs. I for one have been suffering, alone with God knows what it is in wounds over 5 years now. They have gotten bigger. They have spikes,are flat,change shape,can't be burnt, poisoned and when crushed turn to particles which dive into my skin again and form new ones,which join together again.... When dr's call you a liar for 5 years but you know they are there it's only when one dr believes your story,with fear in their eyes that craziness and depression sets in. It drives friends and family away. So I face the devil alone for I feel it's too late. I'm glad you recovered.
Are you dead
"Don't believe in going to the doctors" - that's not stubbornness, that's stupidity.
So can anyone clear something for me? I looked everyone online and not alot is known bout this disease but one thing that i just dont understand is if necrotizing fasciitis is caused by the same bacteria ( that i read) that lives in your throat and nose then does it mean if i were to rub some from a person who has it in their throat with a swab then rub it on your wound....would you then get necrotizing fasciitis?? Does anyone know??
Idk neither, it's scary 🙄
I don't think so. I think the bacteria in your throat is different than the bacteria that causes the infection.
How about we don’t do that hmmm??
@@gracio1231 please 🥺
I meant after I finish this video*
Can you prevent that somehow?
Only by cleaning, covering and checking on wounds like cuts, blisters, abrasions or any other wound that has a break in the skin
I’m eating skin
how did it originate? what was the cause? strep A should be something that our immune system fights off. Type 1 uncontrolled diabetes patients are susceptible, but healthy people shouldnt get this. so what was the cause?
The terrifying thing about this "disease" is that a simple paper cut could lead to your hand, or even arm being amputated.
And most likely, your death...
:'(
I have streptocoocus pyogenes in vagina... gyne give me moxiget i eat but i still not cure
Knowing about the american healthcare system, i just wonder if they have any money left.
I can’t help but laugh at the fact her name is Karen I just feel she would have been screaming at the doctors for a manager
Why you eating the pizza
Inna Day it’s not the pizza it’s just a lack of knowledge of the disease.
if she were in America
it's time to go broke baby
She is American?
Broke is right
bacteria dont like meth
G
I hope flesh eating and brain eating deaseas are gone and want time travel to 2050
Karen
You get this by eating GMO foods in murica
That's not true
You get it from exposure to certain strains of Streptococcus pyogenes bacteria. What makes these bacteria so dangerous, is the proteins they are able to synthesize.
GMOs have no effect
Are you an anti - GMO?
Actually I have experience this flesh eating bacteria and the only cure that I use is apple Cider :)
*skin falls off*
"oh don't worry, some apple cider ought to do the trick!"
@@raffaelesigona2399 based on my experience it really did kill the bacteria.
@@raffaelesigona2399 It's a flesh eating bacteria. I have notice at first my skin is turning red and itchy and a moments later, my skin water, swollen and my flesh fell off and a bit of blood come out. Then I just remember, why don't I tried apple cider since I remember apple cider cured the skin infection of my dog was treated. Then I put apple cider on the skin infected area, after that the watery skin has dried off and there is no itchy anymore. The bleeding stops and my wound is healed.
@@leahjanulgue7200 huh, that's interesting to say the least
@@raffaelesigona2399 I guess it will be help by apple cider if you notice it early and it's above on your skin.
*Karen*
Me: Huh. Must have named her wrong.
Whats wrong with being named karen its.her name deal wut it
@@muhhanifbakari2451 do u know what memes are