While a forty -year -old was camping, he burned his thumb by cooking pasta. The lesion ends up being contaminated by a flesh -eating bacteria, which leads the patient to lose his legs a few weeks later.
- A 40 -year -old American made a septicemia after a Streptococcus bacteria has infiltrated his thumb that was burned when he cooked.
- Faced with these symptoms, doctors placed it in an artificial coma for six days.
- Since the pathogen never stopped spreading, they had to amputate his two legs to save her life.
In Kiowa in Colorado (United States), Max Armstrong, 40, left to camp in the great outdoors with his friends at the beginning of December 2024. During the preparation of a meal, more precisely pasta, he was injured. “I took a pan in the wrong way and my thumb touched the hot part, I could feel that she was burning it by moving it to the table but I did not want to drop it. I did not pay a lot of attention because I already had burns, scratches and cuts while living in the open air and being out of my life. After dinner, I cleaned it up and I left it. he explained to New York Post.
“Two days after having the burn, one of my legs started to swell”
Over the days, he notices that something is wrong. “Two days after having had the burn, one of my legs started to swell. I attributed this to the fact that I injured myself at the ankle at one point without realizing it. I had no significant pain at that time. However, on December 7, I decided to go home and my friend suggested going to the hospital. At that time, my toe nails started to become violets.” Once in Adventhealth Parker, the American went directly to the emergency room where the doctors asked him many questions. While giving them information about his symptoms, he started presenting eye problems and losing his head.
Septicemia: placed in an artificial coma, the patient is amputate both legs
In view of his state of health, the professionals realized that the Streptococcus bacteria had infiltrated in the burn on his thumb and had quickly turned into sepsis, which can endanger his life if it is not treated quickly and correctly. “They placed me in an artificial coma” for six days. During this week, the infection gnawed at its feet and spread above in its body. The practitioners ended up having to amputate her two legs to save his life before the forties regained consciousness on December 13. “At the beginning, when I woke up, I thought my legs were still there, then I realized that they were not. I felt my leg and I realized that she was no longer there. I asked the nurse and she confirmed that I had been amputated the legs.”
On January 14, Max, who now needed a wheelchair to move, left the hospital and went to the Sky Ridge sports medicine and rehabilitation center, in Lone Tree, in Colorado, where he spent 16 days before leaving it on January 29, 2025.
