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老翁食壽司染創傷弧菌 切除前臂
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2018年8月30日 下午12:24
南韓一名身患二型糖尿病的老翁，近日進食魚生壽司時，不幸感染細菌。其左手手掌在用膳12小時後迅速腫起水泡，手掌至前臂需要切除，以阻止細菌繼續擴散。
該名未有透露姓名的71歲老翁身患二型糖尿病、高血壓和嚴重腎病等，近日進食魚生後，左手手掌心及手背迅速腫脹出一個高爾夫球大小的水泡，其後出現發燒及感到痛楚等症狀，兩日後到全州市的醫院求醫。
醫生診斷老翁感染由創傷弧菌引起的弧菌病，於是先破開水泡，清除感染組織，再用抗生素控制病情。可惜老翁接受手術後，左手皮膚仍然嚴重腐爛，最終不得不截肢阻止細菌擴散。他目前情況良好。
美國每年有大約8萬人因食用受污染的生蠔或貝類海鮮，感染弧菌。擁有健康免疫系統的人，多會自行打敗細菌，但糖尿病會限制血液和營養流向皮膚，令患者容易出現皮膚潰傷的併發症，往往較一般人需要更長時間方能痊癒。加上此案患病老翁有嚴重腎病，令他無法抵抗弧菌侵襲。
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/...after-painful-infection-from-eating-sushi.htm
Man Loses Left Arm To Amputation After Painful Infection From Eating Sushi
30 August 2018, 9:38 am EDT By Aaron Mamiit Tech Times
A 71-year-old man from South Korea saw large blisters appear and quickly spread on his left hand hours after eating sushi. The man suffered a vibrio vulnificus infection, and had his forearm amputated. ( New England Journal of Medicine )
A 71-year-old man from South Korea lost his arm to amputation, after suffering from a painful bacterial infection that he got from eating sushi.
The man is not the first one to undergo a medical crisis after eating raw fish. Sushi lovers should know the risks of eating raw fish, and should know what to do in case they suffer a similar issue.
Man's Arm Amputated After Eating Sushi
A case report published by the New England Journal of Medicine detailed how a 71-year-old man from South Korea had his left forearm amputated after developing a fever and excruciating pain in his hand just hours after eating sushi.
Large blisters appeared and quickly spread on the man's left hand, progressing into the deep ulcers as the infection spread up his forearm. Doctors tried to cure the infection with several antibiotics, but after 25 days from the initial treatment, the decision was made to amputate his left forearm.
After performing the surgery, the infection was identified by doctors as vibrio vulnificus, which is responsible for 80,000 illnesses and 100 deaths in the United States every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The infection is acquired from eating raw seafood or from exposing an open wound to seawater.
Sushi lovers, however, should not be worried that amputations may be in the horizon for them. The man in the case report was left to a particularly high risk of being infected due to his medical history, which included hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and even end-stage renal disease. Foodies who are healthy should not be concerned that they will lose limbs after eating sushi, but it will not hurt to follow safety guidelines such as ordering sushi only from reputable restaurants and avoiding raw oysters.
Sushi Lovers, Beware
A vibrio vulnificus infection is not the only thing that sushi lovers should worry about.
In January this year, a report revealed that a man who regularly eats salmon sashimi pulled out a tapeworm that is more than 5 feet long from inside his body. The man was from Fresno, which is 150 miles from the coastline, so that is a red flag on the freshness of sushi served in the area.
There is also a particularly dangerous parasite that may be lurking within the sushi that people eat. Anisakiasis is a parasitic disease that attacks the stomach wall and intestines, caused by the worms known as anisakid nematodes. Symptoms of anisakiasis include abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, and blood or mucus in stool.
https://www.newsweek.com/man-has-arm-amputated-after-sushi-leads-flesh-rotting-ulcers-1093878
Man Has Arm Amputated after Sushi Dish Leads to Flesh-Rotting Ulcers
By Kashmira Gander On 8/29/18 at 5:17 AM
A 71-year-old man had his hand amputated after eating sushi. New England Journal of Medicine
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A 71-year-old man had his hand amputated when an almost 2 inch-wide blister developed on his hand after he ate sushi.
The unnamed man visited an emergency department in South Korea after suffering from a fever for two days, and being hit with “excruciating pain” in his left hand. Just 12 hours before the pains began he had eaten raw seafood, according to a case report in The New England Journal of Medicine.
When doctors examined the man, they found he had a deep purple blister measuring 3.5 by 4.5cm (1.4 by 1.8 inches) spanning his left hand.
Medics at the Chonbuk National University Medical School, Jeonju, South Korea performed emergency surgery on the patient. But despite their efforts, his skin lesions developed into necrotic ulcers and the man’s left forearm was amputated 25 days after he first visited the hospital.
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A 71-year-old man had his hand amputated after eating sushi. New England Journal of Medicine
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Tests revealed the man’s hand was infected with vibrio vulnificus: a bacteria found in seawater which is from the same family as that which causes cholera. Vibrio vulnificus can be both foodborne and waterborne, and is most commonly passed on in seafood. Oysters in particular are a high-risk food.
Keep up with this story and more by subscribing now
Vibrio vulnificus can also enter the body if infected water gets into a cut or scratch.
Hurricanes, storm surges and coastal flooding that create brackish water where rivers meet the sea raise the likelihood of the spread of infection. As the bacteria thrives in a warm climate, the infections are often reported in the U.S. between the months of May and October.
Those with weak immune systems, including those afflicted by chronic liver disease and cancer, are at a greater risk of catching vibrio vulnificus and experiencing complications than the average person, the authors of the case study wrote.
Doctors diagnosed the 71-year-old man with a vibrio vulnificus infection after he ate contaminated seafood. The New England Journal of Medicine
Vibrio vulnificus can either infect a wound, causing redness and swelling and spreading to the rest of the body if left untreated; or a blood infection known as primary septicemia. This can trigger symptoms such as fever, low blood pressure and skin lesions. In some instances, like the man in South Korea, amputations are needed to remove the dead tissue.
Cases of Vibrio vulnificus infections are relatively rare, although figures may be higher as incidences may go unreported. According to CDC estimates, the Vibriosis species of bacteria causes 80,000 illnesses and kills 100 people in the U.S. annually.
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老翁食壽司染創傷弧菌 切除前臂
on.cc 東網
7k 人追蹤
2018年8月30日 下午12:24
南韓一名身患二型糖尿病的老翁，近日進食魚生壽司時，不幸感染細菌。其左手手掌在用膳12小時後迅速腫起水泡，手掌至前臂需要切除，以阻止細菌繼續擴散。
該名未有透露姓名的71歲老翁身患二型糖尿病、高血壓和嚴重腎病等，近日進食魚生後，左手手掌心及手背迅速腫脹出一個高爾夫球大小的水泡，其後出現發燒及感到痛楚等症狀，兩日後到全州市的醫院求醫。
醫生診斷老翁感染由創傷弧菌引起的弧菌病，於是先破開水泡，清除感染組織，再用抗生素控制病情。可惜老翁接受手術後，左手皮膚仍然嚴重腐爛，最終不得不截肢阻止細菌擴散。他目前情況良好。
美國每年有大約8萬人因食用受污染的生蠔或貝類海鮮，感染弧菌。擁有健康免疫系統的人，多會自行打敗細菌，但糖尿病會限制血液和營養流向皮膚，令患者容易出現皮膚潰傷的併發症，往往較一般人需要更長時間方能痊癒。加上此案患病老翁有嚴重腎病，令他無法抵抗弧菌侵襲。
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/...after-painful-infection-from-eating-sushi.htm
Man Loses Left Arm To Amputation After Painful Infection From Eating Sushi
30 August 2018, 9:38 am EDT By Aaron Mamiit Tech Times
A 71-year-old man from South Korea saw large blisters appear and quickly spread on his left hand hours after eating sushi. The man suffered a vibrio vulnificus infection, and had his forearm amputated. ( New England Journal of Medicine )
A 71-year-old man from South Korea lost his arm to amputation, after suffering from a painful bacterial infection that he got from eating sushi.
The man is not the first one to undergo a medical crisis after eating raw fish. Sushi lovers should know the risks of eating raw fish, and should know what to do in case they suffer a similar issue.
Man's Arm Amputated After Eating Sushi
A case report published by the New England Journal of Medicine detailed how a 71-year-old man from South Korea had his left forearm amputated after developing a fever and excruciating pain in his hand just hours after eating sushi.
Large blisters appeared and quickly spread on the man's left hand, progressing into the deep ulcers as the infection spread up his forearm. Doctors tried to cure the infection with several antibiotics, but after 25 days from the initial treatment, the decision was made to amputate his left forearm.
After performing the surgery, the infection was identified by doctors as vibrio vulnificus, which is responsible for 80,000 illnesses and 100 deaths in the United States every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The infection is acquired from eating raw seafood or from exposing an open wound to seawater.
Sushi lovers, however, should not be worried that amputations may be in the horizon for them. The man in the case report was left to a particularly high risk of being infected due to his medical history, which included hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and even end-stage renal disease. Foodies who are healthy should not be concerned that they will lose limbs after eating sushi, but it will not hurt to follow safety guidelines such as ordering sushi only from reputable restaurants and avoiding raw oysters.
Sushi Lovers, Beware
A vibrio vulnificus infection is not the only thing that sushi lovers should worry about.
In January this year, a report revealed that a man who regularly eats salmon sashimi pulled out a tapeworm that is more than 5 feet long from inside his body. The man was from Fresno, which is 150 miles from the coastline, so that is a red flag on the freshness of sushi served in the area.
There is also a particularly dangerous parasite that may be lurking within the sushi that people eat. Anisakiasis is a parasitic disease that attacks the stomach wall and intestines, caused by the worms known as anisakid nematodes. Symptoms of anisakiasis include abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, and blood or mucus in stool.
https://www.newsweek.com/man-has-arm-amputated-after-sushi-leads-flesh-rotting-ulcers-1093878
Man Has Arm Amputated after Sushi Dish Leads to Flesh-Rotting Ulcers
By Kashmira Gander On 8/29/18 at 5:17 AM
Share
Health Sushi
A 71-year-old man had his hand amputated when an almost 2 inch-wide blister developed on his hand after he ate sushi.
The unnamed man visited an emergency department in South Korea after suffering from a fever for two days, and being hit with “excruciating pain” in his left hand. Just 12 hours before the pains began he had eaten raw seafood, according to a case report in The New England Journal of Medicine.
When doctors examined the man, they found he had a deep purple blister measuring 3.5 by 4.5cm (1.4 by 1.8 inches) spanning his left hand.
Medics at the Chonbuk National University Medical School, Jeonju, South Korea performed emergency surgery on the patient. But despite their efforts, his skin lesions developed into necrotic ulcers and the man’s left forearm was amputated 25 days after he first visited the hospital.
Recommended Slideshows
Is It Dangerous to Wake Up a Sleepwalker? 50 Health Myths You Should Stop Believing
Read more: A lump moving across a woman's face was a parasitic worm crawling under her skin
Tests revealed the man’s hand was infected with vibrio vulnificus: a bacteria found in seawater which is from the same family as that which causes cholera. Vibrio vulnificus can be both foodborne and waterborne, and is most commonly passed on in seafood. Oysters in particular are a high-risk food.
Keep up with this story and more by subscribing now
Vibrio vulnificus can also enter the body if infected water gets into a cut or scratch.
Hurricanes, storm surges and coastal flooding that create brackish water where rivers meet the sea raise the likelihood of the spread of infection. As the bacteria thrives in a warm climate, the infections are often reported in the U.S. between the months of May and October.
Those with weak immune systems, including those afflicted by chronic liver disease and cancer, are at a greater risk of catching vibrio vulnificus and experiencing complications than the average person, the authors of the case study wrote.
Vibrio vulnificus can either infect a wound, causing redness and swelling and spreading to the rest of the body if left untreated; or a blood infection known as primary septicemia. This can trigger symptoms such as fever, low blood pressure and skin lesions. In some instances, like the man in South Korea, amputations are needed to remove the dead tissue.
Cases of Vibrio vulnificus infections are relatively rare, although figures may be higher as incidences may go unreported. According to CDC estimates, the Vibriosis species of bacteria causes 80,000 illnesses and kills 100 people in the U.S. annually.
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