Woman Loses Arm After 'Bath Salts' Injection

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http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/weird/Woman-Loses-Arm-After-Bath-Salts-Injection-137390448.html
According to the News I saw, they also did a radical mastectomy on that side as well.

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A New Orleans woman lost her her arm and nearly her life from flesh-eating bacteria after injecting herself with "bath salts," according to a case report published today in the journal Orthopedics.
The woman, 34, entered a Louisiana hospital and complained of pain and redness on her right forearm. The patient later admitted that a puncture wound on the forearm was from a needle.
After being questioned by doctors, the patient said she injected herself with the chemicals at a party two days prior. Her condition seemingly improved after doctors gave her antibiotics, but she was rushed to surgery after increased redness, drainage and inflamed and swollen skin. Upon surgery, doctors discovered a flesh-eating bacteria moving so quickly that they could see it killing tissue around the injection site. Left with little choice, the doctors amputated her right arm and shoulder in addition to stripping away any dead muscle.
The final diagnosis was a necrotizing fasciitis, a rare infection caused by streptococcus bacteria. Such flesh-eating infections kill swiftly. Victims often require surgery within a day of admission in order to survive, another one study said.
Dr. Russell Russo, a third-year orthopedic resident at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, was the lead author of the case report. Russo, alongside the other authors of the report, were worried that the growing popularity of illicit bath salts may cause a rise in the deadly infections. They also warned other emergency department health staff to pay close attention when patients enter the ER with similar skin infections caused by injections.
Last fall, the federal Drug Enforcement Agency banned three chemicals used to make similar bath salts. But Russo and his colleagues warn other emergency department health workers to still be careful when patients show up with skin infections after injections.
“The best treatment is prevention with public, street-based education and early detection,” Russo wrote.

 

Wow. I had to look up what bath salts would do to you if injected. Stupid people.

 

Damn! That's serious shit!

 

absolutely nuts. i had to google injecting bath salts like jordie:smt107

 

Hope that shit was worth it.

 

Wow amputated arm and shoulder. OMG I don't even want to think about it. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.

 

Bath salts are evil.

 

I guess next we will hear of some "amputated" dick!