An American student has fallen seriously ill after eating leftover noodles from his fridge. After numerous surgeries, he had to undergo several amputations in order to save his life.
A terrible story unfolded for this American student. As he eats a leftover chicken noodles left the day before by his roommate in his refrigerator, this 19-year-old student falls extremely sick. While the dish only stayed in the fridge for one night, less than 24 hours, the young man quickly felt very bad after eating it. Abdominal pain, chest pain, headache, stiffness in the neck, shortness of breath, blurred vision, nausea and vomiting come on gradually, so he goes to the hospital with a friend.
On the spot, his condition is deteriorating. While he was pretty much healthy until 8 p.m., despite the appearance of a purplish discoloration in their skin, everything goes downhill. His body temperature increases as well as his beats per minute, he goes up to 166 BPM and is sedated. According to the report published in the review New England Journal of Medicinewe learn that the young man is finally airlifted to another hospital in intensive care. How his condition could have deteriorated so quickly when the young man was in good health before eating this famous noodle dish.
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A bacterial infection called Neisseria meningitidis
Within 24 hours of eating the food, the kidneys of the young man let go then his blood begins to clot. The results of the analyzes show that the student suffers from meningococcemiaa disease caused by bacteria in his blood called Neisseria meningitidis. His immune system reacts, Doctor Bernard explains: “When bacteria are present in the blood, blood vessels throughout the body dilate and then blood pressure drops, preventing oxygen from entering the organs.»
Even if the doctors manage to stabilize his condition, the lack of oxygen causes a necrosis of certain tissues. The 19-year-old eventually develops a gangrene which will oblige the doctors to amputate it of his fingers as well as a bilateral amputation below the knee. Although they don’t know exactly how the food could have been contaminated, one thing is certain, the bacteria spread quickly through the saliva. Today the student is very fortunately recovering and his state of health has been stabilized.