Starting Deadly Bacteria Infection Sore Throat

California - currently experiencing a sore throat is often ignored. A California man must fight alive against deadly bacterial infection that starts with a sore throat. Initially Patrick Abram Jr. (20 years) complained to her parents Patrick and Leslie Abram about a sore throat for two weeks.

However, when his father went to his house to check, she was shocked to discover her son's eyes turn yellow and swollen jaw, and his left leg. It turned out that this bacterial infection has spread to other parts of the body including the brain.

'This condition is more severe than just a sore throat, "said the father, as quoted from AOLHealth, Tuesday (05/18/2010).

His father eventually took Abram Jr. to Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton, California. This is where the doctors diagnose illnesses Abram Jr. Lemierre's syndrome a rare but potentially lethal.

Lemierre's syndrome was first discovered by Andre Lemierre in 1936 after conducting a case study of 20 patients, 18 of which died of this disease from bacterial infection in the throat. The infection is caused by Fusobacteria necrophorum which accumulate in the back of the throat, but for reasons not clear the bacteria rapidly multiply and spread to other areas in the body.

This disease had disappeared for the emergence of antibiotic. But then come back several decades and is known as the forgotten disease. In the case of Abram Jr., who gathered these bacteria move into the blood stream toward the legs and brain. This is what causes swelling in both regions.

Dr. Robert and the team gave him antibiotics and a small section of vein bypass where the bacteria got together and forming blood clots. This procedure is intended to stop the movement of infection to other organs.

In addition, other surgeons also perform surgery to relieve swelling in his brain. Due to this condition Abram Jr. had to be in ICU with many pains. Further tests still needed to see whether antibiotics given have worked or not.

But Dr Holtrof Kent, founder of Holtrof Medical Group reveal that a person afflicted by a sore throat do not have to panic to the possibility of Lemierre's syndrome affected.

"It took several weeks to several months to make this infection occurred. But it must be observed if exposed to recognize the symptoms of sore throat is persistent or associated with systems such as headache and swelling in the body that would not go away," he said.

This disease is not contagious, but his attack was faster than cancer. The symptoms are very similar to the flu and sore throats, as well as the disease attacks different organs in each case.

Key in order to survive with this disease is to recognize quickly and immediately taking antibiotics that are responsive to these bacteria and dry the swelling. With appropriate therapy, the mortality rate is only about 4-12 percent.