Posted on 02/09/2024 8:50:34 AM PST by algore
Horrified air passengers screamed and were left 'traumatised' yesterday when a German husband started coughing up 'litres of blood' in front of his wife before collapsing and dying mid-flight.
The man - who was travelling with his Filipina wife - had got on with 'cold sweats' and was 'breathing much too quickly' before passengers rushed to help him, offering chamomile tea and taking his pulse.
But as the plane took off, his health went quickly downhill. The man was said to have been spitting into a bag when a 'gush of blood' came out of his mouth and nose, splattering the walls of the Airbus A380 aircraft.
The man's wife had initially told cabin crew that her husband was feeling unwell because they had been forced to run to catch the plane at Bangkok airport.
'A flight attendant then reacted and asked him if he was okay, she was very worried,' said Martin's 55-year-old nursing specialist wife Karin, who was sitting with her husband
But when the German was given the green-light to stay on board, Karin intervened and told cabin crew a doctor was urgently needed.
The pilot arrived and called for a doctor over the loudspeaker.
A 30-year-old Polish medic 'with poor English' then arrived, asked how the man was and took his pulse before indicating that he seemed OK.
Martin told Blick: 'They then gave him a little chamomile tea, but he was already spitting blood into the bag that his wife held out to him.'
The plane took off before the man's condition dramatically deteriorated, increasingly spitting blood into a bag - before a 'gush' of blood came out of his mouth and nose.
'It was absolute horror, everyone was screaming,' said Martin, adding that the man lost 'litres of blood' which covered the cabin walls.
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“Martin’s 55-year-old nursing specialist wife Karin, who was sitting with her husband ...”
Needs a pilotless drone.
Washing it was sheer stupidity!
Forget it, Jake. It's the Daily Mail.
Guy I met several years back told me if a healthy college athlete; a girl.
She took the va666ine - wound up driving herself to the hospital - arriving in a pool of her own blood.
I don’t know if that’s what happened here but it reminded me of that story.
Seems likely
A huge extended family in the Philippines just lost their gravy train.
That is just awful. I’m sorry that you had to go through the loss, the horrifying event, and the aftermath.
My guess is that he had varicosities in his stomach from a bad liver, and one burst.
That’s how my SIL went out. Like a horror show scene.
If the man was alcoholic, it may have been esophageal varices.
Terrible way to die.
Due to damage to the liver caused by scarring from cirrhosis, blood is unable to flow properly. This can lead to a situation called portal hypertension. This increased pressure causes the veins in the esophagus to become distended and it can eventually burst.
The result is somewhat like projectile vomiting.
I knew a woman whose father died that way in early 70s. Head artery let go in brain behind eyes nose
my worse situation while I was working as an RN in an acut care hospital was this guy who had terminal cancer and was going to go home in a day or two, cancer of the lungs/esophagus IIRC..
he was sitting up for breakfast, had his usual cough, then got into bed and started coughing/vomiting up massive amounts of blood and it went everywhere..all over the bed and room....a code was called but it was decided that he and his family wanted a no code and the man thankfully ended his life without having to be intubated,sedated, and wrist restrained....it was the worse scene I have ever seen....
Esophageal varices usually from alcoholism
Close enough.
She was obese, and drank quite a bit. I don’t know what blew.
My wife is a fanatic about that stuff....
Yep. Blood accumulates in your stomach, then you start throwing it up. Often violently. Aspirate badly and then it’s worse / you may well die.
Happened to both my Mom and Dad (although they both survived horrific episodes, with Dad succumbing to another months later as he was inoperable.)
So Biden is a liter and a half low
Give ‘im an enema.
“ esophageal varices”
Yep. I have gutted animals that didn’t bleed as much as esophageal varices..
I still don’t eat at KFC after running a call where a guy bled out all over the place.
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