Posted on 08/29/2018 6:54:28 AM PDT by bgill
A four-year-old girl caught life-threatening sepsis from trying on a new pair of shoes on a shopping trip. Sienna Rasul fell seriously ill the day after trying on a selection of different size shoes without any socks on at a shop in Cardiff. She was rushed to hospital in agony where doctors diagnosed sepsis from the bacteria in the shoes on display in the shop. The little girl spent five days on a drip in hospital with her mother Jodie Thomas, 26, keeping a bedside vigil.
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I always wear my own clothes when I go try own shoes, swim suits, etc etc
Was treated with antibiotics.....doesn’t sound like MSRA.
I have another friend now who’s wife left him, taking the kids, because he “worked too much”.
Paid the bills, nice safe house and a new car for her every other year. But he was “disconnected” and “didn’t see his family enough”.
No matter what these two friends of mine do, their custody gets further and further away.
My sister in law tried to show my wife how cool it was to be a single mommy too, promising that she would help her if she left me. I too was working too much. Nipped that right in the bud.
The shoes were designer Coli Haans.
Huh?
You said you assumed they were talking about mrsa
That can’t be treated by antibiotics....hence it’s name
No way this happened without a break in the skin on her feet. Then the most likely source of the infection is whatever caused the break in the skin not shoes she tried on. She was more likely to contaminate the shoes with an open sore on her foot than get contaminated by them. But that doesn’t make scary headlines.....
I have thought of this concept every time I have been caught off guard at TSA when going through security, having worn my shoes without socks in hot weather.
I have thought about the public health hazard of walking barefoot over a grimy path when clearing security.
From the article: “She was rushed to hospital in agony where doctors diagnosed sepsis from the bacteria in the shoes on display in the shop.” It reads as if they were able to track the bacteria right back to the pair of shoes AT THE SHOP. So... she either was infected before she tried the shoes on or she did indeed pick up the bacteria from the shoes...perhaps in a small cut on her foot which wasn’t noticed before. I’m turning 62 and as far back as memory recalls, I was told to wear fresh socks daily and to be darn so to have them on when trying shoes. Even if I were not wearing socks (sandals, thank you), I would put a pair of socks in my purse/satchel if I even THOUGHT about trying a pair shoes/sandals at any shop. My beloved started noticing a few years back how more and more women/girls just slip their bare feet into shoes/sandals.... And it wasn’t just Athlete’s Foot I wore socks..my mom told me over and over again that one never knows what’s on another person’s feet, heck even on the bottom of their socks.
The girl had to have an open wound first. as for the compromised immune system,. she is very young, doesnt have an adult immunsystem. IE: I had a small sore that wouldn’t heal.. it was MRSA but recovered without a hospital stay. just some horse pills for a week.
Prayers for the little girl.
The name is Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus - which means it's Methicillin resistant. Other types of antibiotics are used.
You don’t understand MSRA at all. It is a staph infection that is resistant to most commonly used antibiotics. It can sometimes be treated by super strong antibiotics like cipro......even that is not guaranteed
The description of having a drip doesn’t imply anything other than standard treatments
You made an assumption on no information
MRSA infections respond to other antibiotics singularly or in combination based on sensitivity. Bactrim for example can be used.
My point is that I doubt even a MRSA infection would result in an overwhelming sepsis in a four years old unless she had an immune deficiency and there was a portal of entry.
For example, how did the infection get into the body? Simply from putting on a shoe? Did putting on a shoe cause a cut, that allowed for the bacteria to enter, or was the cut (and infection) already there?
And how did the infection, incubate and replicate in the shoe?
In summary, I say BS to the title of this article, and if I were being sued, I would assemble a strong defense.
Agreed.
I’m responding to your direct statement. What’s your beef since you actually contradicted yourself in your reply to me by saying it CAN be treated with antibiotics?
You also agreed with nikos1121 when he responded that antibiotics are used to treat MRSA.
Are you skeptical of this being caused by simply putting a shoe on, and then 24 hours later there’s sepsis?
I work in wound care. I’m familiar with sepsis. You can get one of these progressive, flesh eating infections, that take off in front of your eyes, or it may takes awhile like in a diabetic foot wound...
Strep infections, eg Erysipelas can take off, but I don’t think I’ve seen an infection take hold in 24 hours without some serious inoculation.
I bet the child had an open would days before they came in to try on shoes. A simple examination would tell than.
I agreed with you because I agreed with you
Yes whatever else happened that produced sepsis in this child 24 hrs seems waaaay beyond likely. It’s Britain.....they have a large number of docs who’s training is iffy at best. Necrosis is a terrible thing.
The whole story is missing something
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