Necrotizing fasciitis

In 2015 Jasmine Elliot in Illinois struggled with plantar fasciitis for years. Plantar fasciitis is one of the most common causes of heel pain. It involves pain and inflammation of a thick band of tissue, called the plantar fascia, that runs across the bottom of your foot and connects our heel to your toes. She received acupuncture therapy sessions and eventually her pain stopped, she now attends monthly sessions to keep inflammation and stress down, and to balance her hormones. Jasmine Elliot…

disease are necrotizing fasciitis and streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS). Necrotizing fasciitis rapidly destroys muscles, fat, and skin tissue. STSS causes blood pressure to drop rapidly and organs (e.g., kidney, liver, lungs) to fail. STSS is not the same as the staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome that has been associated with tampon usage. Less severe invasive illnesses caused by group A strep include cellulitis and pneumonia. In the U.S, about 25% of patients with necrotizing fasciitis…

it even before they reach the hospital grounds. There are four different types of the MRSA infection. The first one is the skin infection or also known as Necrotizing Fasciitis, commonly called the flesh eating infection. This type is a serious bacterial skin infection that spreads fast and kills the body’s soft tissues. Necrotizing Fasciitis can be brought up by many different types of bacteria such as A Streptococcus,…

Bacteria is very harmful. It can cause harm by physically blocking functions if there numbers are extremely high. Bacteria has the potential to destroy skin, fat, and the tissue covering the muscles very quickly. Necrotizing fasciitis can lead to organ failure and death. Necrotizing fasciitis generally starts from an infection in a minor cut or bruise. The bacteria is spread through droplets in the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes. If you breathe in these droplets you have a high…

skin (7). They can be spread through different direct contact to an exposed mucous membrane, or through contact to an open wound. The infections can be either non-invasive or invasive; invasive being the most dangerous and life threatening. Necrotizing fasciitis is an invasive infection that can come from a strand a group a streptococcus. This infection is also referred to as the flesh eating bacteria, because when the strand evades the immune system it begins to attack the body’s soft tissue —…

There are many dermatologic conditions that can be strikingly similar to cellulitis, especially on first presentation to an Emergency Physician. While some other diagnoses are more chronic and indolent, others are life-threatening and crucial for the Emergency physician to diagnose. Distinguishing between cellulitis and other skin conditions can lead to a decrease in antibiotics use and thus resistance as well as delays in treatment of alternate, and most importantly, deadly diagnosis.…

colonize their host asymptomatically and only occasionally cause disease. Local pharyngeal infection of GAS is manifested as pharyngitis and spread from the local site can cause the systemic diseases sepsis, streptococcal toxic shock syndrome and necrotizing fasciitis (1). S. pyogenes produce a wide array of virulence factors enabling it to adhere, invade and spread within the human host (2). One of the characteristic features of S. pyogenes is…

developing it as well. It also may occur after severe burns, freezing, or prolonged bed rest (bed sores). There are different types of gangrene with different indications, such as dry gangrene, wet gangrene, gas gangrene, internal gangrene and necrotizing fasciitis. Most types of gangrene are differentiated as being either dry or moist.…

normal until she scraped her knee frolicking at a playground one afternoon. At first, her mother was not surprised and thought it was common; however, Chloe began growing ill. Her leg was badly bruised and swelling. “It is an obvious sign of necrotizing fasciitis, a flesh eating bacterial infection.” the doctors explained to Chloe’s parents. Chloe endured three surgeries concerning her infected leg. After the final surgery, Chloe and her parents learned that she was ill with acute lymphoblastic…

with blisters. It was the fourth day and she knew something was wrong. Her leg was starting to smell rotten and she could not get out of the bed. Back to the hospital Aimee went. Aimee’s parents were notified and it was found that she had necrotizing fasciitis, which is a flesh eating disease. When Aimee fell into the creek, she was exposed to a bacteria called aeromonas hydrophila which is found in fresh or brackish water. She was put into a hyperbaric chamber and they hoped it would stop the…