Mysterious infection blamed on tongue piercing

Seattle PI ^

[SoldierMedic]

I've never found tongue piercings to be attractive,

[Army Air Corps]

Same here. I never found women with pierced tongues to be appealing. Ditto for pierced eyebrows.

[LukeL]

diamond stud earings and nothing more for me.

[BunnySlippers]

I never found women with pierced tongues to be appealing. Ditto for pierced eyebrows.

So male tongue piercings are appealing? I'm here to tell you they are disgusting too.

[expatguy]

Next up tongue condoms.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

It’s bad news when an infection goes really septic - a truly awful way to die. My grandfather says that sulfa drugs were the only thing that pulled him through his emergency appendectomy back in the 1910’s - otherwise he would have never have made it due to the gangrene.

[Army Air Corps]

I always thought that this was going to be a problem. The human mouth is rife with little critters.

[snarks_when_bored]

Bacteria commonly found in the mouth and saliva possibly entered Lacey's bloodstream through the hole punched through the girl's tongue.

That's their story and they're sticking to it...

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

In reaction to this statement as part of this article:

At one point, Lacey had 16 tubes in her upper body to help drain away the infection. Tests showed the bacteria ravaging her body were types commonly found in the mouth.

My grandfather also gargled with Listerine just about every day of his life and lived to be 95 when he succumbed to prostate cancer. Otherwise, he was almost never sick and swore that Dr. Lister knew EXACTLY what he was doing.

This girl probably wouldn't have had this trouble if she had done a couple of mouth rinses of Listerine before she had her tongue pierced.

[Army Air Corps]

So male tongue piercings are appealing?

Um, I was commenting on what piercings I do not find attractive in Women.

[I still care]

The grossest ones are the studs below the lower lip. They look like they need better eating habits. I’m like, take a hanky and brush that dreck away.

[Politicalmom]

The story I have read previously had a brain abscess caused by
the tongue piercing. I have had that one bookmarked in case any of my children completely loses his/her mind and starts talking about piercings. Now I have another to add to the file.

I am glad this girl survived.

[Army Air Corps]

Mouth piercings, in general, do nothing for me. I have seen some rather attractive women mangle their faces with all manner of hardware. I feel like asking them why they want to abuse what G-d gave to them.

[SoldierMedic]

I don’t really mind tongue piercings in certain ladies, it mainly depends on how well they take care of it. Same thing with the lip. Tongue and nose are not appealling, however.

I used to have my cartilage pierced, and I sometimes miss it. I had a corkscrew shaped bar that I would play with. Someday I may take a catheter and just re-do the hole.

[Army Air Corps]

Indeed. She is fortunate that she has kept her life. Maybe, she’ll decide to not puntcure other areas of her mouth.

[SoldierMedic]

One hospital worker told Lacey's mom that Virginia Mason had treated five people in the previous four weeks with similar types of out-of-control infections. Only two survived. Lacey was one of them.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I never found women with pierced tongues to be appealing.

Uh, my opinion differs.

[Scotsman will be Free]

Yeah, except they didn’t have sulfa drugs until 1935.

[Army Air Corps]

Pierced cartilage! Those can be rather painful. I have known a couple women who had that done and changed their minds after a while.

[ari-freedom]