California, a sore throat When a person is often ignored. A man from California had to fight to live against deadly bacterial infection that begins with a sore throat. Initially Patrick Abram Jr. (20 years) complained to her parents Patrick and Leslie Abram about a sore throat for two weeks.
But when the father went to his house to check, he was very surprised to find her eyes yellowed and swollen jaw and his left foot. It turned out that this bacterial infection has spread to other parts of the body including the brain.
"The condition is more severe than just a sore throat," said the father, as quoted from AOLHealth, Tuesday (18/05/2010).
The father eventually took Abram Jr. to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton, California. This is where doctors diagnosed the disease Abram Jr. Lemierre's syndrome a rare but potentially lethal.
Lemierre's syndrome was first discovered by Andre Lemierre in 1936 after conducting a case study of 20 patients, 18 of them died of the disease derived from a bacterial infection in the throat.
The infection is caused by Fusobacteria necrophorum which collects in the back of the throat, but his reasons are not clear the bacteria multiply rapidly and spread to other areas in the body.
This disease had disappeared since the advent of antibiotics. But then come back several decades and is known as the forgotten disease (forgotten disease).
In the case of Abram Jr., who gathered the bacteria move into the blood flow to the legs and brain. This is what causes swelling in the area.
Dr. Robert and the team gave her antibiotics and cut a small part of the vein where the bacteria come together and form blood clots. This procedure is intended to halt the infection to other organs.
In addition, other surgeons also perform surgery to relieve swelling in his brain. Abram Jr. due to this condition had to be in ICU with much pain. Further tests still needed to see if antibiotics are given is working or not.
But Dr. Kent Holtrof, founder of Holtrof Medical Group reveals that a person stricken with a sore throat that does not have to panic to the possibility of Lemierre syndrome.
"It took several weeks to several months to make this infection occurs. But things to consider when exposed to recognize the symptoms of sore throat is persistent or associated with systems such as headaches and swelling in the body that did not go away," he said.
This disease is not contagious, but his attacks faster than the cancer. The symptoms are very similar to the flu and sore throat, as well as the disease attacks different organs in each case.
Key in order to survive with this disease is to identify quickly and immediately responsive to antibiotics these bacteria and dry the swelling. With appropriate therapy, the mortality rate is only about 4-12 percent.