Category Archives: FAQ
Flesh-eating Bacterial Infection – Prevention, Treatment, & What is It Exactly?
There is something about being “eaten alive” by bacteria, crawling unseen on your skin, that is so primitive and so sci-fi at the same time, it unleashes the primal fear in us. Maybe this is why, on the rare occasion that the gruesome flesh-eating bacterial infection strikes, it creates a storm in cyberspace.
Timely Diagnosis for Flesh Eating Bacteria
Most of the flesh-eating bacteria lawsuits are based on allegations that doctors or hospital staff failed to immediately diagnose the disease. Of course, if you’ve been reading this site, you would already know that – to be fair to doctors and other medical staff – the flesh eating disease is kind of hard to diagnose. [...]
Children and the Flesh Eating Bacteria
As we’ve been saying in earlier posts, the flesh eating bacteria can infect anyone from famous people to ordinary ones like us. Children can also get infected. Here are two recent stories of children from different parts of the U.S. who were infected by the disease. One survived but the other, sadly, did not.
Video: Dr. Clifford Sewell on the Flesh Eating Disease
Here’s a video produced by livestrong.com featuring Dr. Clifford Sewell talking about the flesh-eating disease. It’s interesting that he identifies hospitals as the most common place where one can acquire the bacteria. Well, maybe its not really that surprising; hospitals may be places for healing but they are also full of bacteria and viruses. But [...]
Signs and Symptoms: Flesh Eating Bacteria
So what are the signs and symptoms that you should look out for if you suspect that you (or anyone you know) have flesh-eating bacteria aka necrotizing fasciitis? Here’s some very basic guide from CBC (that’s Canadian Broadcasting which is not to be confused with CDC). According to CBC, in the early stages of necrotizing [...]
Who Gets the Flesh-Eating Bacteria?
One of the common questions asked by those who visit this blog goes, “Who gets the flesh-eating bacteria?” The answer to that would be, “Anyone.” The bacteria does not discriminate. It attacks anyone. Ordinary people like you and me. And famous people or celebrities too. As noted in the story of Tanya Gludau, the chef [...]
