Man had legs amputated after eating friend’s leftover takeaway

He developed sepsis believed to be from micro organism within the meal (Image: Getty/The New England Journal of Drugs)

A scholar developed gangrene and needed to have his limbs amputated after consuming his buddy’s leftovers from the fridge.

The unnamed man, 19, was taken into intensive care with a number of organ failure hours after creating a rash from the meal he ate simply the day earlier than.

He went right into a coma and all of his fingers needed to be amputated to avoid wasting him, in addition to each legs beneath the knees.

Dr Alexandra Lucas concluded he was affected by a uncommon complication of septic shock brought on by micro organism coming into the bloodstream.

His case was detailed in a medical journal the place the abstract detailed he had been ‘properly’ till 20 hours earlier than he was admitted to hospital.

‘Diffuse belly ache and nausea developed after he ate rice, hen, and lo mein leftovers from a restaurant meal,’ the report states.

He was then sick a number of instances and developed chills, weak spot, chest ache, headache, muscle ache and blurry imaginative and prescient.

The person developed a robust rash (Image: NEJM)

His legs needed to be amputated beneath the knee (Image: NEJM)

5 hours earlier than he went into hospital, ‘purplish discoloration of the pores and skin’ and a buddy then took him to a close-by emergency division.

Whereas within the hospital he started to have bother respiration and was given oxygen as his blood strain dropped, and later needed to be placed on a ventilator.

Earlier than this, he had been staying with a buddy for 5 days although he often lived along with his mom, brother, and three cats in northern New England.

Medical workers requested family and friends members about his latest historical past to attempt to discover out what triggered his decline.

The New England Journal of Drugs mentioned: ‘A buddy who had eaten the identical meal because the affected person the night earlier than admission had vomited as soon as shortly thereafter however had not develop into progressively sick.’

It mentioned man had a historical past of hysteria and melancholy and had had ear infections throughout childhood. He smoked two packs of cigarettes every week, smoked hashish every day, and had two alcoholic drinks round twice per week.

There was nothing in his historical past that put him at explicit threat of sepsis resembling. power situation.

Nonetheless, the docs famous that he had solely had one dose of every of his meningitis vaccines.

He was identified with a s’evere and acute presentation of meningococcal purpura fulminans’ (Image: NEJM)

The case was documented final 12 months however gained consideration this week after a YouTube video by Dr Bernard was printed about what occurred, gaining over 1,000,000 views.

Dr Lucas mentioned within the medical journal: ‘This affected person had a chronic hospital course with many issues of fulminant meningococcemia, together with necrosis of the legs and arms and gangrene, which led to amputations of elements of all 10 fingers and bilateral below-knee amputations.

‘Total, he had a comparatively good restoration from what was a really extreme and acute presentation of meningococcal purpura fulminans.’

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