NECROTIZING FASCIITIS This is an uncommon disease. Necrotizing Fasciitis is also known as a flesh-eating bacteria disease. This affects every 1 out of 4 people. Some symptoms of this disease are weak immune system, consumption of steroid medicines, has surgical cuts or injuries on parts of their body, or had been affected by chicken pox recently. This bacteria destroys and eats up fat, skin and the tissue covering the muscle of a particular part of the body, and can occur anywhere in the body. This infections spreads through the body, and is very deadly.
If you are a healthy person and have a strong immune system, your chances on getting this is very low. To stop the infection you have a very short time because of how fast it spreads. …show more content…
It can also be bad because it can spread as soon as the bacteria enters the body. This disease spreads fast because it is a flat layer of membranes known as fascia, and it connects to bands of tissue that surrounds muscles, nerves, fat, and blood vessels. The infection also damages tissue next to the fascia. Sometimes the toxins made by this disease destroy the tissue they affect, causing the tissue to die. When this happens it can contribute to loss of limbs or death.
Ways to keep this disease from happening you can keep open wounds covered, clean, and using dry bandages until healed, don’t delay first aid for any wound you have, if you have any open wounds avoid using whirlpools, hot tubs, and swimming pools until they are healed, and last of all wash hands often with soap.
The symptoms to this disease start within hours after an injury and can seem like another illness or injury. The people who are infected with this disease may complain of pain or soreness, similar to a pulled muscle pain. The skin could be warm with red and purplish areas of swelling that spread rapidly. May be blisters or black spots on skin. Could have a fever, chills, tiredness, or vomiting. These symptoms are usually so the person who has this disease delay going in to see what they
If you are a healthy person and have a strong immune system, your chances on getting this is very low. To stop the infection you have a very short time because of how fast it spreads. …show more content…
It can also be bad because it can spread as soon as the bacteria enters the body. This disease spreads fast because it is a flat layer of membranes known as fascia, and it connects to bands of tissue that surrounds muscles, nerves, fat, and blood vessels. The infection also damages tissue next to the fascia. Sometimes the toxins made by this disease destroy the tissue they affect, causing the tissue to die. When this happens it can contribute to loss of limbs or death.
Ways to keep this disease from happening you can keep open wounds covered, clean, and using dry bandages until healed, don’t delay first aid for any wound you have, if you have any open wounds avoid using whirlpools, hot tubs, and swimming pools until they are healed, and last of all wash hands often with soap.
The symptoms to this disease start within hours after an injury and can seem like another illness or injury. The people who are infected with this disease may complain of pain or soreness, similar to a pulled muscle pain. The skin could be warm with red and purplish areas of swelling that spread rapidly. May be blisters or black spots on skin. Could have a fever, chills, tiredness, or vomiting. These symptoms are usually so the person who has this disease delay going in to see what they