People pop sushi in their mouths without thinking twice. But they might want to think on it a little bit longer after hearing what happened to a 71-year-old who got a bacterial infection after eating raw fish.
His meal ended with him having to have his forearm amputated.
The South Korean man broke out in larger blisters and a fever after eating the seafood. The man says his hand blew up about 12 hours after he ate some sushi.
It swelled up to the size of a golf ball, about 3.5cm by 4.5cm in size, and became terribly painful. Then huge blisters and bruising began to appear.
He had contracted a bacterial infection after eating raw seafood.
Medical personnel had to drain his blisters and remove the infected tissue. He was diagnosed with vibriosis, caused by the Vibrio vulnificus bacteria, and was prescribed antibiotics.
Unfortunately, the treatment didn’t work and flesh-rotting ulcers began to form in his hand.
The damage was so bad that his hand and forearm had to be cut off.
The 71-year-old also had type-2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and was at the end stage of kidney disease which he was having dialysis for, according to Daily Mail.
Daily Mail reports that people with diabetes are at an increased risk for skin ulcers because their condition restricts the flow of blood and nutrients to the skin making it take longer to heal.
Twenty-five days after eating that sushi, the man had his left hand and forearm amputated to stop the spread of the rotting tissue.
Vibriosis affects more than 80,000 Americans each year or one in 40,000 people. Most people get it from being exposed to raw or contaminated seafood, like oysters or shellfish.
Some also get vibriosis from being exposed to an existing wound to seawater containing the bacteria.
Those who have weakened immune systems are more likely to risk infection or have complications from vibriosis.
Those who are healthy are more likely to recover from exposed bacteria within a few days without any problems.
Jeanette LeBlanc from Texas actually died after contracting a flesh-eating bacteria during a trip to Louisiana after going crabbing and eating raw oysters.
“It’s a flesh-eating bacteria. She had severe wounds on her legs from that bacteria,” LeBlanc’s partner Vicki Bergquist told Daily Mail.
She ended up dying 21 days later. Thankfully, the 71-year-old man is recovering from his amputation surgery.
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