Wake Up Nigeria hosts, Emem, Winfrey and Mazino reacts to the story of a boy who got poisoned after eating left over from a Chinese restaurant. This incident has sparked conversations on food poisoning and how to avoid it.
According to reports, a 19-year-old college student developed sepsis and lost his legs and fingers after eating leftover Chinese takeout food.
A licensed toxicologist, Dr. Bernard Hsu said, the young man became severely ill after eating tainted leftovers, including lo mein, chicken and rice.
He said,
“This was a freak accident happening in a perfect storm sequence of events,” Hsu, who did not treat the man, said in a YouTube video on Feb 16.
The teen’s case was first reported in March 2021 in ‘ The New England Journal of Medicine which detailed how he was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital as he was suffering from “shock, multiple organ failure, skin mottling, and a rapidly progressive reticular rash.”
The outlet added,
“The patient had been well until 20 hours before this admission, when diffuse abdominal pain and nausea developed after he ate rice, chicken, and lo mein leftovers from a restaurant meal,”
“Multiple episodes of emesis [vomiting] occurred, with vomitus that was either bilious or red-brown. The abdominal pain and vomiting were followed by the development of chills, generalized weakness, progressively worsening diffuse myalgias [muscle pains], chest pain, shortness of breath, headache, neck stiffness, and blurry vision,”
“A diffuse reticular [netlike] purpuric rash was present on the face, chest, abdomen, back, arms, and legs, sparing the palms and soles,” it added.
The boy underwent blood and urine tests and was diagnosed with a bacterial infection called Neisseria meningitidis, which caused his blood to clot and his liver to fail.
His skin necrosis was said to be caused by “purpura fulminans,” a severe complication of meningococcal septicemia.
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