Posted on 07/05/2019 3:58:01 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A young boy was rushed to the hospital after he contracted a flesh-eating bacteria at a Maryland beach.
Brittany Carey shared two graphic images of her son's leg where the bacteria began eating away at his flesh in three spots.
Carey said in a Facebook post on Saturday that her parents had taken her son out for a beach day off the coast of Ocean City on June 23.
She wrote that her son had a great time swimming until June 24 when she 'started noticing little spots developing all over his body'.
'Tuesday morning there were open wounds developing but I had thought he was scratching them, making them worse. Only to find when I picked him up Tuesday they were a lot bigger and a lot more,' she added.
Carey said she took her son to Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, Maryland, where doctors told her that he had a common ocean bacteria called Vibrio.
The bacteria can also be found in raw, contaminated seafood.
Carey said she shared the Facebook post as a warning for other parents.
'Please be careful out there guys and if you start seeing wounds such as these please get somewhere fast!'
As of Monday, Carey said her son's pediatrician 'is really happy with the healing'.
Within the past few months, there have been dozens of people to contract the flesh-eating bacteria as climate change fuels the spread of the feared bugs in once-safe oceans, a new study suggested in June.
Five people in Delaware and New Jersey contracted flesh-eating infections in the last two years from seafood or water from the Delaware Bay, which used to be too cold for the microorganisms.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Play Third World games, get Third World prizes...
Not even going to the site of the article......
Climate change hysteria.
“ climate change”
How about pollution
Actually been a cool rainy summer until past few werks
Seriously? Warnings all over Gulf of Mexico For the flesh-eating bacteria? Do you have any more info on that? I have friends there...
A big scary article but no mention of what antibiotics it requires for treatment?
I guess people don’t take showers after going into the water
It is why they have the showers along the boardwalk......
“There are many kinds of bacteria that can lead to necrotizing fasciitis such as Streptococccus pyogenes, staphylococcus aureus, bacteroides fragilis, aermonas hydrophila, etc. Most cases of flesh eating bacteria disease is polymicrobial with approx 15% cases belonging to Type II class of diseases. People with weak immune system are more likely to suffer from such infections.”
“It is better to treat the condition at earliest which is usually presumptive. Antibiotic treatment is often suggested initially which are given intravenously and in combination. These medicines may include piperacilling, vancomycin as well as clindamycin.”
I remember reading about a couple college grads who thought it would be an easy task to find out how many bacteria there was in seawater, at most two or three hundred they thought...
Last time I checked they were in the neighborhood of 25,000 and still going strong...
I read about Panama Cuty Beach this morning at al.com. There was a Facebook story about a girl who got some infection in Destin. And a bunch of Mississippi beaches are closed. I was born and raised in Mississippi and was never allowed to go to the beach there because it was “dirty.” I was a child and was happy traveling to Florida. As a teenager, I was told that the beaches/water there were polluted. It’s been out of my mind until the last week or so of beaches being closed there.
Panama City Beach ...
Maryland boy infected with flesh-eating bacteria, mother says
JULY 3, 2019 / 10:12 AM / CBS/AP
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/flesh-eating-bacteria-vibrio-reported-in-maryland-boy-ocean-city/
Thanks.
I was in Florida on Long Boat Key last summer—early July right before the red tide warnings. Just never thought of issues with the flesh eating bacteria.
I would hope health dept. is on top of it and closes beaches, posts warnings, etc.
I would hope so as well. I wonder how random it is. What percentage of beach goers get it? A few years back, a friend had the flesh eating bacteria and ended up in the hospital. He didn’t get it at the beach. He was in swampy water. There were a bunch of cases that year as I recall.
Bacterial infection is serious business.
My story relates to my cat who was felled by a bacterial infection in his respiratory system. I know this doesn’t relate to this story in particular and I apologize for that, but it’s an example of how tough it can be to rid a body of an infection.
Out of no where, my cat started getting weak and was coughing up blood, wheezing and having trouble breathing. The malady puzzled both me and my vet. She wanted to run $800 in lab tests to determine of my cat was dying from an incurable disease. I asked, to what point?
You want me to spend $800 to determine if my cat is dying from an incurable disease. That makes no sense.
Instead, I asked the vet to put the cat on an antibiotic regimen of Clavamox. So we did. For the first three months it helped a bit, but not completely. The cat was still hacking, wheezing and having a hard time breathing.
Now, I’d been through this before with a cat that had a urinary tract infection. Months and months of antibiotic treatment without a noticeable improvement. I read some shit about how cats improved health-wise by feeding them raw chicken liver. I did it with that cat and urinary tract infection was beat, and the cat lived another nine years.
So I did the same dietary liver regimen with this cat and his respiratory infection. Within a month, his symptoms improved, while still feeding him the antibiotic Clavamox.
His infection is now gone and he’s doing fine.
So what’s the moral of this story? If you read my posts you might learn about curing feline bacterial infection.
That is all. Go about your business.
Mississippi beaches do tend to be dirty, that’s the Mississippi Sound. The current closures there are due to an algae bloom, caused by dumping water from the Mississippi River through the spillway into Lake Pontchartrain. That puts a lot of fresh water and silt much closer to the beaches, than if it had to flow all the way down to Pilot Town.
Wonder if it requires an open wound. Ugh. Guess it is a good idea to use anti-bacterial soap and plenty of it after swimming or tromping through a swamp. And getting to a physician who can recognize it early!
I think I’d prefer the shark attack.
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