Posted on 03/10/2006 6:28:34 AM PST by SUSSA
DUNN, N.C. - North Carolina health officials are investigating the death of a woman who died last week of a flesh-eating bacteria three days after accidentally jamming her hand in a wheelchair while working at a nursing home.
Nursing assistant Sharron Bishop, 44, died Feb. 27. A doctor said a rare flesh-eating bacteria may have entered her body through a thumb injury and she turned from healthy to fatally ill.
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Sharon Bishop complained on Feb. 24 about a swollen thumb. She had jammed it at work and worried that she had dislocated it. David Bishop took her to Betsy Johnson Regional Hospital, where doctors gave her pain medication and sent her home.
The swelling got worse. By the morning of Feb. 27, her arm was twice as large as normal and looked like it would burst, David Bishop said. Fluid leaked from her elbow and wrist. She complained of terrific pain.
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Dunn physician Abraham Oudeh diagnosed necrotizing fasciitis, an infection that destroys tissue.
Doctors at UNC Hospitals that evening tried to stop the spreading infection by amputating her arm at the clavicle and removing all the muscle and tissue around her left breast, torso and thigh in a futile effort to save her life.
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What about ammonia....I would think that would be a good cleaning agent?
As long as it doesn't get near bleach!
I been told for fungus to treat it with loads of acidophilos internally. And stay away from carbs. There are many good treatments for fungus. Check with you local health food store. Not GNC or HiHealth. Something reasonably sized but not franchised. Those people who are more knowledgable.
Wow...She did not have a blood culture with this problem. I am going to see that she does. Thanks!
Thanks. Will do.
Much appreciated. We have such a store here.
Not a blood culture, a mouth culture. They take samples from under the gumline between teeth and sent it out to a lab for testing.
Mine cost $200.00. Cheapest thing I've had done so far at the periodontist's office. :(
Thans Bear, I appreciate it! :-)
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