How a new mother survived the flesh-eating bug Disease
A new mom has said she expects to raise awareness of a flesh-eating infection that almost killed her.
Charleigh Chatterton, 27, gave delivery to her daughter Alessia in Colchester on 22 April without difficulties.
But six days after, she was taken back to the hospital after setting a rash on her belly. Doctors analysed the finance administrator with necrotising fasciitis and alerted her family she might not survive.
“The medics said my odds of survival were slim. I think I got diagnosed only in time,” she said.
Miss Chatterton, from Harwich, Essex, had a rash that was “as hot to touch as a boiled kettle” and severe flu symptoms.
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Her fiance Liam Boyne asked midwives at Colchester Hospital, who suggested she go in to be scanned.
Doctors took numerous tests that came back clear, but her situation rapidly worsened, and she struggled to stay conscious.
After a scan showed gas pockets under her tissue, they learned it could be necrotising fasciitis. Doctors told them she required an immediate operation to draw a large amount of dead tissue to prevent the flesh-eating bacteria from spreading.
Miss Chatterton was sedated for three days and to two big injuries on her stomach, which had to be left open for six days to allow her body to heal till they could fit a vacuum pump.
Source – BBC
