Bacteria nearly eaten alive by a woman

For five years, it lasted for personal nightmare of the woman, who devour the flesh of the bacterium. But the nurse was able to win serious illness, to return home to her child.

When Sandy Wilson woke up after general anesthesia, it is found that the patient has become to the hospital, which has long been a nurse. She remembered that recently had a baby, and that was the victim of some kind of infection. But nothing in the world could not prepare her for what was hidden behind sheets.

Poor woman devoured alive by a bacterium. "When I looked at my belly, I saw that almost all the skin was gone, and it was possible to see internal organs, - says Sandy. - I remember that I could see the intestines. And she said to herself:" In such a state can not live ... It is a death sentence. "

Of all the diseases in the world which are rarely afraid of infection as much as ate the flesh   bacterium Streptococcus . It affects mostly obese people, diabetics, cancer patients, recipients of organ donors and all those who have a weak immune system. 20% of the victims die, the rest on the body remain terrible traces of the disease.

The disease is almost always caused by a single view Streptococcus bacteria . And frightening trend - resistant to all kinds of medicines supergerms like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus are capable of producing "flesh-eating" toxins and cause terrible infection, like the one on which doctors worked so hard to save Sandy Wilson.

Doctors had to repeatedly remove dead tissue, but the infection is constantly ahead of them. She ate spleen, gall bladder, appendix, part of the stomach and, in the end, almost all colon. Countless surgeries, organ transplants, the years spent in hospitals and rehabilitation centers, feeding through a tube and the inability to communicate with his son - all this looks like a plot for a horror movie. Luckily he came even happy ending.

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