Once she got back home, she and her doctors found they had buried into her back and laid eggs and they kept hatching, and then she started to get weird symptoms like unable to move her neck. But no one dx'ed tetanus until today finally. She's been worse and worse. They told her the feces of these crustaceans can carry tetanus bacteria.
So horrible.
this is why people need to keep their tetanus immunization status up to date. The tetanus bacteria is common in any shovelful of dirt.
I didn’t have it but a cousin did.
With treatment, and few serious underlying health issues like heart diease or some type of autoimmune disorder.... your friend should be just fine.
Conor McGregor has locked your friend will be fine
She’ll be fine with a regime of good old penicillin, and debriding out the wound and cleaning it. They should give her a tetanus vaccine as part of the therapy.
Also, she’s going to want to decontaminate her home, including pets. Salt and diatomaceous earth should do it. The first will shrivel them and the other will cut their shells so the salt can shrivel them. Don’t inhale the diatomaceous earth - use a high-grade face mask and eye protection. Steam cleaning afterward to get the survivors.
http://www.fleabites.net/sand-fleas-what-are-they-and-how-do-you-get-rid-of-them/
General Reminder to anybody: tetanus only lasts 10 years. If you can’t remember when you last had one, get one.
My dad, who went home to be with the Lord at 80, survived tetanus as a 9 year old.
His doctor and the hospital told my grandparents that there was no chance, so just stay with him until he passed.
They put a mouthpiece in to keep him from biting his tongue.
When he finally regained consciousness, his crooked teeth were perfectly straight from clamping down on the mouthpiece.
He had no skin left on the back of his head, or his heals from the convulsions.
Years later, when he went into the Navy during WWII, he told them he did not need a tetanus shot because he was a survivor. They did not believe him, gave him the shot, and he nearly died.
He had a great story, which medical people would shake their heads about in disbelief.
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/229594-medication
#1 Appropriate antibiotic!
#2 Versed iv~ via continuous infusion to prevent convulsions and to minimize the lock jaw.
Might be best to have two docs treating or as consultants:
1>Infectious Disease doc
2>Neurologist
Keep your boosters up to date. I went through a nasty bout with whooping cough a few years ago. Since I came back stateside I had not thought to get boosters. Now I do. Too soon old and too late smart.
I am praying for her.
My Dad contracted tetanus and lockjaw when he was in basic training in the Army Air Corps toward the end of WWII. He was very sick and lost a lot of weight, but is still going strong 70+ years later. He will be 91 in November. Praying for her recovery.
Prayers for your friend.
Prayers for her successful treatment and full and speedy recovery !
Oh My...Big Prayers up for your friend, Dear Yaelle.
Wow. I didn’t know that was possible. Long ago, a doctor told me that tetanus cases were most likely to come from deep wounds that occurred where cattle had defecated (pastures, around barns and the like).
Prayers from here.
I don’t know anyone who’s had it. I will say a prayer for your friend and her family.
I had a cousin that my family always said died of tetanus just before I was born, but his older brother just told me a couple of months ago that he thought our families were wrong, because his brother had other symptoms that meant it couldn’t have been tetanus or not just tetanus. He is positive his family inherited an autoimmune condition from the maternal side of the family that I don’t have, because he has also been plagued with that autoimmune condition most of his life.
I personally know someone who survived.
A friend of mine (actually he was a friend of my father-in-law) was out at Lake Wenatchee, Washington years back. We were all camping/fishing, whatever.
Walking up one of those metal stairs into a camper he cut his foot pretty bad - bad enough to bleed like hell!
I said “You better get to a hospital, get it stitched up and get a tetanus shot”.
He just wrapped it in a towel and said “I don’t need no stinkin shot...” something like that, you get the idea.
He tells us all a story about years before that when he was in Chicago and got sick. Went to the doctor, who said take two aspirin and call me in the morning... he got sicker and sicker and ended up in the hospital in the emergency ward.
a day or so goes by and they DO NOT HAVE A CLUE! Even after blood tests!
Two doctors stick their heads in the door and one starts shrieking... THIS MAN HAS TETANUS! Get tetanus antitoxins immediately!
He was a Doctor Without Borders transplant from Korea, and had see it before.
John survived and was forever immune to it.
They’re not fleas, they’re “sand flies”. There’s plenty of medical info out there on the internet on how to treat it but your friend’s is the most serious I have ever heard about........
It was not a tetanus infection, it was parasitic in nature.........Just sayin......