“Develops abdominal pain and nausea that spreads“, explained the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) about a shocking case involving a 19 year old boy that ends with both legs were amputated.

It all started when the victim decided to eat a bowl of chicken noodles that a friend had left the day before in the fridge at home at Great Britain.

However, he never thought that by eating this food he would test positive Neisseria meningitidisa form of sepsis that can even kill those who have it.

health problems

After experiencing health problems, the young man had to be referred to a medical center, where specialists detected that he had a high body temperature and high heart rate.

The young man’s condition worsened after a few hours, for which he had to be transferred by helicopter to another hospital for appropriate treatment.

“The patient had been well up to 20 hours prior to admission when she developed abdominal pain and nausea that was radiating. after eating noodles, chicken, and restaurant leftovers“, reported the media.

In turn, it was reported that “abdominal pain and vomiting are followed by chills, general weakness, progressively worsening diffuse myalgia, chest pain, shortness of breath, headache, neck stiffness, and blurred vision”.

“Five hours before this admission, there was a purplish discoloration of the skin, and a friend took the patient to the emergency department of another hospital for evaluation,” he said.

Amputated leg

In the midst of this episode, the patient developed gangrene in the tissues of his fingers, and also in his legs and feetwhere they had to amputate part of his lower extremity (from the knee down), reports Loud sound.

It Doctor Bernardwho participated in the intervention, classified the event as a “freak accident” and emphasized that, despite the complications, the young man managed to survive.

For now, it’s speculated that he contracted the bacteria through his saliva and because he didn’t receive a booster shot of the meningitis vaccine at age 16.