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(Oh) Skin necrotic from eating food left by a friend.


The story of a 19-year-old student who amputated both legs and 10 fingers while eating food left by a friend is shocking.



On the 20th local time, The Sun reported the sad story of a 19-year-old man, A, who lost both legs to sepsis by citing a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine.



Reportedly, Mr. A felt a strong stomachache and nausea after taking the chicken and noodles leftovers from his roommate from the refrigerator the night before.



Even his skin turned purple, and Mr. A was rushed to the hospital.



Despite the adult's average heart rate being 50 to 60 beats per minute, Mr. A's pulse reached 166 beats per minute and his body temperature soared to 40 degrees, and the situation took a serious turn.



In the end, A was transferred to the intensive care unit of another hospital by helicopter.



As a result of the detailed diagnosis, Mr. A had kidney failure due to bacterial infection, and his blood was clotting.

Life-threatening meningeal bacteria were also detected in his blood.



The medical staff gave Mr. A a diagnosis of sepsis and multiple organ failure.



Sepsis refers to a condition in which the blood is full of bacteria and toxins, and multiple organ failure refers to a symptom in which two or more major organs in the body fail to function simultaneously or consecutively or become dull.




Mr. A, who had fallen into a coma and was on the brink of death, regained consciousness within 26 days, but news like a blue sky was waiting for him.



It was that his skin rotted and he had to amputate both his legs and ten fingers from below the knee.



It was found that Mr. A had contracted the bacteria through the saliva of his friend.



The medical staff said, "It seems that meningococcal infection was transmitted while eating food that had been contaminated with a roommate's saliva. Meningococcus is transmitted to others through droplets or direct contact." It has been determined that A has only been vaccinated once since the age of 12.”



Meanwhile, A's friend also ate this food and vomited, raising doubts about the food itself.



The cause of the bacteria entering the food is still unknown, and the doctors who watched it even said, "This is a crazy accident."



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(Photo=Captured from The Sun website, UK)