Posted on 08/03/2019 12:50:16 PM PDT by Leaning Right
Days after returning home from a Punta Cana vacation, Marie Trainer called out of work with a backache and nausea. Then her temperature spiked and dropped, sending her to a local Stark County, Ohio, emergency room in the early hours of May 11.
When Trainer woke in a hospital bed nine days later, her hands and legs had been amputated.
It took doctors seven days to discover Trainer incurred a severe infection, not from a "tropical" travel disease as they first suspected, but from her German shepherd's kisses.
(Excerpt) Read more at amp.cnn.com ...
“Dog germs, yuck” Lucy
The timing is such that she may have gotten it from a dog while on vacation.
“Clean as a hound’s tooth.”
Just a saying, unfortunately.
For an otherwise healthy woman to have an immune system particularly susceptible to a common canine germ transmitted through a lick is, I hope, extremely rare.
My sister-in-law became quite ill from poodle licks. It happens.
No clicks for CNN.
Capnocytophaga canimorsus
Wow. Looks like Lucy got one right.
> No clicks for CNN. <
I normally agree with you. But when it comes to legitimate health and safety stories, I make an exception.
Things like this do happen. I saw an episode of Dr. G where a healthy man in his 30s did from the same virus that causes cold sores (Herpes Simplex) For some reason he went septic and his body produced no antibodies against it.
Wasn’t it just about a year ago when the rage was all about kissing your dog because after all, dogs’ mouths are as clean as any human’s - apparently not so much.....
When our son was two years old a reaction to Herpes Simplex put him in the hospital. He looked like a burn victim all over. It was awful. He had to be on an antiviral med for a couple of years.
You just never know when things will go wrong.
I’ve seen what my dog’s eat (in addition to what I feed them) and it’s not pretty.
Other critters crap is high on the list.
Sounds like Steven-Johnson’s syndrome. Very scary as it can occur after any minor illness.
I’ve always hated animal licks, or even wet noses on me...and kissing an animal?...eeewwwww!!! Yes, even my own pets
My 30 year old son who hadn’t seen a doctor since high school just spent months in the hospital for what they think was an attack from the Epstein-Barre virus which is mono, something almost everyone has. He was on life support twice and they told us he had very little chance of survival.
He is home now but basically disabled.
I only heard the name, never saw it in print so hearing the official term rattled off meant I never really knew the name. After a doctor would repeat it a couple of times I gave up.
They said that his skin reacted to the virus, it wasn’t the virus itself. They also stressed that he absolutely couldn’t catch it again, thus the need for acyclovir.
Sorry to hear your son has EpsteinBarre. Will he have to take a shot every day for the rest of his life?
As for dog kisses in t his story, I really rather. doubt it.
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