He ate tagliatelle with chicken from the day before and it all ended in drama: they had to amputate his legs

A 19-year-old student could never have imagined such a devastating end – he would have ended up with both legs amputated after eating what a friend had left in the fridge the day before. She developed fatal sepsis.

The young man identified as JC, from the UK, ate a plate of noodles with chicken that his friend had ordered the night before, but immediately started showing signs that something was wrong and got sick, he reveals New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).

He was running a very high fever with a heart rate of 166 beats per minute when he was taken to hospital and sedated. They claim that, according to medical records, I have had no allergies and had all the vaccinations since childhood.

He also rarely drank alcohol, smoking two packs of cigarettes a week and smoking marijuana almost every day, reports the Daily star.

Multiple organ failure and rash

The young man’s condition deteriorated rapidly and he had to be airlifted to another hospital for more appropriate treatment.

The Journal report stated: ‘The patient was well up to 20 hours prior to this admission when he developed diffuse abdominal pain and nausea after eating noodles, chicken, and leftovers from a restaurant meal.”

According to the NEJM, the student worked part-time at a restaurant and had not recently traveled or been exposed to animals or sick people. Yes, it has been learned his father had coronary artery disease and his brother had suffered from viral meningitis when he was six weeks old.

Terrible symptoms and the end

“The abdominal pain and the He retched were followed by the development of chills that make you tremble, generalized weakness, widespread myalgias which get progressively worse chest pain, shortness of breath, headache, stiff neck and blurred vision“, he listed The newspaper.

“Five hours before this admission, a purple discoloration of the skin and a friend took the patient to the emergency room of another hospital for evaluation.”

“It was confirmed that he suffered from a aggressive bacterial infection which caused his kidneys to collapse and his blood to start clotting.” It was then that the results of the bacteria in his blood gave positive for Neisseria meningitidiswhich is a form of sepsis that can kill those affected.

They apparently speculate that he was infected with the bacteria through his saliva and did not receive a booster dose of the meningococcal vaccine which should receive at the age of 16.

The tissue in his fingers developed gangrene, as did his legs down to his feet, leading to parts of all of his fingers being amputated and amputations. below the knee.

Physician Dr. Bernard described the incident as a “strange accident” and, despite everything, he stressed that the student managed to survive the ordeal.