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Just a reminder to be careful this summer in regards to the warm ocean waters and also about eating raw seafood like oysters. I've known about our rivers, lakes, oceans carrying Necrotizing Fasciitis ever since I contracted it in April of 2011.
I had never heard of the flesh eating bacteria before until I contracted it. While I was in ICU at LSU Hospital, my doctors told me about a woman that had contracted the flesh eating bacteria after cleaning a catfish that she caught from the Red River in Shreveport. She was the first patient they had ever treated at LSU. I was the second patient that they had treated, and this was a month before I arrived at LSU.
The woman's index finger was cut by a fin while she was cleaning the catfish. The flesh eating bacteria was all over the catfish that she caught from the Red River. The catfish was covered with the flesh eating bacteria because it was in the Red River.
My doctors told me that they had to amputate the woman's arms and legs hoping it would save her life. She died a month later; exactly one month before I was admitted to LSU.
It seems to be happening more often, and my brother called me around August of 2018 regarding what he had seen on our local news. I wished I would have seen the news, but I missed it. From what was reported, there were several people that had contracted Necrotizing Fasciitis in Maine after swimming in the beach waters. Six of those people died from it.
Today, I found this news a man getting the flesh eating bacteria called Vibrio after eating raw or undercooked seafood. Usually the infection occurs after exposing a wound (even a small cut) to seawater.
Florida Man Contracts Flesh Eating Bacteria Without Touching Water
Another horrific story in the same article is about a woman that dies from the flesh eating bacteria after eating oysters. There was also a mom from Maryland that posted on Facebook about her son getting Necrotizing Fasciitis after swimming in Sinepuxent Bay near Ocean City.
Exactly one year after I had Necrotizing Fasciitis, a friend of mine contracted the disease from Sabine River in Logansport. He had went skiing in the river. He had a small cut on his upper leg, and the bacteria entered his wound. He was lucky like I was. He didn't lose his leg, but the majority of his flesh on the back of his leg had to be debrided. That's exactly what happened to me.
I know this may be lengthy, but it's happening more often. People don't stop to realize that our waters like the lakes, rivers and oceans now have the flesh eating bacteria, and seafood and fish are covered with that bacteria because of it.
Please be safe this summer, and please don't get in the water if you have a small cut or wound. Wait until it gets well.
I had never heard of the flesh eating bacteria before until I contracted it. While I was in ICU at LSU Hospital, my doctors told me about a woman that had contracted the flesh eating bacteria after cleaning a catfish that she caught from the Red River in Shreveport. She was the first patient they had ever treated at LSU. I was the second patient that they had treated, and this was a month before I arrived at LSU.
The woman's index finger was cut by a fin while she was cleaning the catfish. The flesh eating bacteria was all over the catfish that she caught from the Red River. The catfish was covered with the flesh eating bacteria because it was in the Red River.
My doctors told me that they had to amputate the woman's arms and legs hoping it would save her life. She died a month later; exactly one month before I was admitted to LSU.
It seems to be happening more often, and my brother called me around August of 2018 regarding what he had seen on our local news. I wished I would have seen the news, but I missed it. From what was reported, there were several people that had contracted Necrotizing Fasciitis in Maine after swimming in the beach waters. Six of those people died from it.
Today, I found this news a man getting the flesh eating bacteria called Vibrio after eating raw or undercooked seafood. Usually the infection occurs after exposing a wound (even a small cut) to seawater.
Florida Man Contracts Flesh Eating Bacteria Without Touching Water
Tyler King was at work in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, last week when his left arm starting to swell, according to CBS News. He took Benadryl to try to calm the reaction, but was later rushed to the emergency room after his arm had swelled to nearly triple its size in just a few hours.
Doctors found that King — who owns a water sports business but says he did not directly touch the water that day — contracted vibrio.
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, “People with vibriosis become infected by consuming raw or undercooked seafood or exposing a wound to seawater. Most infections occur from May through October when water temperatures are warmer.”
Another horrific story in the same article is about a woman that dies from the flesh eating bacteria after eating oysters. There was also a mom from Maryland that posted on Facebook about her son getting Necrotizing Fasciitis after swimming in Sinepuxent Bay near Ocean City.
Exactly one year after I had Necrotizing Fasciitis, a friend of mine contracted the disease from Sabine River in Logansport. He had went skiing in the river. He had a small cut on his upper leg, and the bacteria entered his wound. He was lucky like I was. He didn't lose his leg, but the majority of his flesh on the back of his leg had to be debrided. That's exactly what happened to me.
I know this may be lengthy, but it's happening more often. People don't stop to realize that our waters like the lakes, rivers and oceans now have the flesh eating bacteria, and seafood and fish are covered with that bacteria because of it.
Please be safe this summer, and please don't get in the water if you have a small cut or wound. Wait until it gets well.