Posted on 07/25/2023 4:27:26 PM PDT by Twotone
A single flea bite has cost a Texas man both of his arms and part of his feet, his family said.
Michael Kohlhof was rushed to a San Antonio emergency room last month after losing feeling in his toes and suffering from what his family initially believed to be severe flu symptoms, his mother wrote in a GoFundMe.
Soon after, the 35-year-old man went into septic shock and was rushed into the ICU.
Within 24 hours, Kohlhof was put on a ventilator, dialysis, antibiotics, vasopressors and numerous IV medications to keep him alive as his organs began rapidly failing.
“By the end of June 20, I was told to call immediate family to come from all parts of the country to say their goodbyes,” mom J’Leene Hardaway wrote.
Kohlhof’s brother Greg told KENS5 that his sibling “almost died once or twice.
“They were worried about him being brain dead,” Greg said.
It took another 11 days of intense medical assistance, but Kohlhof miraculously pulled through and was taken off the ventilator and sedation on July 1 — but not without severe physical consequences.
According to Hardaway, Kohlhof’s hands and feet developed dry gangrene as a result of the vasopressor treatment — one of the many medications that saved his life.
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Keep your eyes on the lookout for tiny insects in retail stores. I returned contaminated items from Macy’s, COSTCO, Amazon, and Walmart.
How were they added?
No treats for me, I’ll pass / take my chances with the fleas.
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I wonder if Ivermectin is the answer. I'm thinking the fea carries a bacteria. My view is that Ivermectin is a wonder drug and it pays to have a stash on hand at all times. Dr. Betsy Eads was on Greg Hunter recently and she and other frontline doctors have developed elaborate therapies to rid the body of the spike protein. Even if you did not take the shot the damn spike can jump from those infected to those around them. It, therefore, appears that a sustained therapeutic approach is required.
https://usawatchdog.com/cancer-is-exploding-because-of-cv19-vax-dr-betsy-eads/
I thought Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers bit him.
About 10+ years ago, my brother was at his son’s house for Thanksgiving. He complained about some soreness and pain in his hand and oddly his son’s beagle kept sniffing at his hand, sort of obsessively as if he smelled something “off”.
A few days later after he went home, he went to his doctor as his whole hand had swollen up, red and painful and he had a bright red line running up his arm to his elbow and was running a high fever.
His doctor sent him straight to the hospital.
He was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis. He was admitted and put on IV antibiotics and wound care including hydrotherapy. At one point, amputation of the infected finger if not his entire hand was not off the table if the infection could not be stemmed. He lost part of his ring finger and much damage to surrounding nerves. He spent nearly a month in the hospital.
The doctors also tried to determine how and where he got this infection. A few days before he went to his son’s house for Thanksgiving, he had been removing fallen wood from his property near the Jersey shore, but he didn’t recall being bitten or stung by any bug.
They thought perhaps he had been bitten by a spider. Brown Recluse spiders can cause this, but they are not found in NJ so they were unsure how or from what he got infection but were pretty sure it was from a spider bite.
When we moved to Idaho we found we didn’t have much of a flea problem (we have cats). But in areas of “congestion” they are still an issue.
Vitamin C won’t cure the bacterial infection or maintain your blood pressure while you’re in septic shock. You’ll just die with a lot of vitamin C.
So it was the medication, not the flea bite, that caused his gangrene.
They’re big fleas down there in TX!
We used to organize flea hunts using .22 rifles.
Now, our fire ant hunts used flame throwers!
My daughter has had sepsis 3 times from infections in her kidney (kidney stones). Ain’t no joke. This guy must have waited WAY longer than he should have to seek medical attention.
You don’t think they are found in NJ, but I’d be willing to bet there’s a whole lot of creepy crawlies there that the “experts” would say aren’t.
No
Thank you, Joe Biden, for facilitating the return of a disease long eradicated in the US and largely confined to the third world through your open-border policy.
Migrating fleas should be illegal.
When we were kids, we used to tease one another about having “cooties,” aka lice—but no one was actually infested. Today, “cooties,” which carry typhus, are no laughing matter.
Freaking Biden.
Very fortunate that your daughter recovered.
A very good friend had an acquaintance (the wife of her ex boss) who developed sepsis when in the hospital for cosmetic surgery. She was airlifted to one of the major hospitals in Los Angeles where she succumbed. This was in the space of a few days. When I heard about it I suggested to my friend that she look into the Vitamin C drip and then pass it on to the woman’s husband. That never happened.
Prior to having surgery my doctor strongly suggested I have it prior to the operation. So I did. There’s considerable evidence that it works as a preventative and a cure and at worse it does no harm. Certainly worth a try when one’s life is on the line.
On top of all the corruption and treason Biden releases cooties on our once great country? Impeach!
I lived in San Mateo, CA for a few years (late 80 to early 90s). One of the main roads through the nicer part of town is called “Alameda de las Pulgas.” Avenue of the fleas. Yes, they were a problem there.
One of the main roads in East Palo Alto is just called “Pulgas.”
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