Processing pork, often eating blood soup: the man has multiple organ failure, purple veins all over his body

Recently, a representative of Bai Chay Hospital said that recently, the facility has received and treated a patient with a critical health condition. It is known that the cause comes from this patient's wrong way of processing and eating pork.

The above patient's name is Pham VB (47 years old, living in Dai Yen, Ha Long City). Recently, he was taken to the emergency room by his family in a state of low blood pressure, purple veins all over his body, and signs of scattered subcutaneous bleeding. It is known that the patient had previously had symptoms such as frequent bowel movements, intermittent abdominal pain around the navel, and fatigue.

Through the test results, it can be determined that the patient is in a state of severe infection, multi-organ failure. Based on clinical and laboratory examination, the patient was diagnosed with septic shock, sepsis, and monitored for swine streptococcus.

Upon receipt, the doctors managed to treat it with many active resuscitation measures such as mechanical ventilation, maintenance of vasopressors, combination antibiotics, adsorbent dialysis, fluid resuscitation, electrolytes... Blood culture results were positive for swine streptococcus.

Fortunately, after 8 days of intensive resuscitation treatment, the patient was out of danger, his health was stable, and the infection index gradually improved.

Through this serious incident, Dr. CKI Nguyen Sy Manh - Department of Intensive Care and Anti-toxicity, Bai Chay Hospital shared: " Patients infected with swine streptococcus include 3 types: sepsis, meningitis. pus or a combination of both. Depending on the type of disease, the course of the disease is severe or mild, there are cases where the infection is already severe at the beginning. The symptoms of the disease are usually after a few hours to 4-5 days, in some cases the incubation period is up to 5 days. 14 days depending on the location of each person.

The initial symptoms may be mild and non-specific such as: abdominal pain, fever, nausea, vomiting and loose stools... easily leading many people to be subjective to common digestive disorders and food poisoning. should be late to the hospital. More severe cases with headache, high fever, vomiting, impaired consciousness, lethargic consciousness, appearance of necrotic skin rash due to sepsis, purulent meningitis caused by streptococcus pig.

If not treated promptly, in some cases of critically ill patients with Streptococcus pneumoniae with rapid and severe progression with manifestations of septic shock, multi-organ failure, and rapid death. Meningococcal sequelae left by swine streptococcus can cause deafness, headaches ... ".

Not long ago, in June 2023, a 59-year-old male patient was also treated at Lang Son General Hospital with a high fever, headache, and a purple-black necrotic purpura on the skin. , burgundy in the limbs, flanks.

Through examination and tests, the patient was also diagnosed with swine streptococcus infection, sepsis, multi-organ failure. Doctors of the Department of Infectious Diseases assessed that the patient was in a very serious prognosis, if he was hospitalized for about 1 more day, it would not be possible to cure him.

The patient was actively resuscitated with antibiotics, anti-cerebral edema, fluid resuscitation... After 3 days of admission, the patient passed the critical condition and continued to be monitored and treated at the hospital.

According to research, it is known that both of the above patients have had the habit of eating blood pudding regularly for many years.

Swine Streptococcus is a bacterium that causes disease in humans and pigs. This is a dangerous infectious disease that can occur in most warm-blooded animals, mainly pigs and humans.

The disease usually comes from the habit of eating blood pudding and eating sick, dead, undercooked pork or in contact with sick pigs. The disease increases sharply during the hot season and can cause death. if there is no timely prevention and treatment measures. The disease has the potential to spread into an epidemic.

Swine strep disease usually manifests in 3 forms: The first is Meningitis: The patient has high fever, headache, nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, stiff neck. Manifestations are often easily confused with purulent meningitis. If not treated early, it can cause neurological sequelae.

Second - Sepsis: The patient has a high fever, dirty tongue, large red or dark gray hemorrhagic rash. Patients with sepsis are often very dangerous because of the rapid progression, systemic toxicity causing multi-organ failure, in many cases leading to death. Finally, the combined form: both meningitis and sepsis.

It can be seen that patients infected with swine streptococcus often experience many life-threatening complications, long treatment time and very expensive, and the sequelae are also extremely heavy. Patients who have been infected with swine streptococcus can still get it again next time.

To prevent swine streptococcus disease, doctors and doctors recommend people: Do not eat sick pigs, raw pork, blood soup, undercooked organs and especially not eat sick or dead pork. In any case of contact with sick pigs, care, raising or slaughtering, destruction must have protective means.

Sick and dead pigs should not be slaughtered, and raw pork should not be handled with bare hands, especially when there is a hand injury. Wash hands and utensils after handling raw pork.

Regularly clean livestock cages and disinfect with disinfectant solutions; Proper handling of feces to avoid excreting pathogens to the outside...

When high fever (40-41 degrees Celsius) after contact with pigs (especially sick or dead pigs), skin abnormalities appear, should go to the hospital for early diagnosis and treatment.

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