Where is the flesh eating bacteria located
Flesh-Eating Bacteria Treatment - The Nebraska Medical Center
problem is we've got this very invasive
aggressive
teria that is multiplying rapidly and
also produces toxins that inflamed and
damaged the tissues this not only
damages the tissues but it impairs the
immune system when hyperbaric oxygen
therapy does number one is to is to
force oxygen into areas that are not
getting adequate oxygen because of the
tissue damage because the swelling and
the toxicity of that area so we're
forcing oxygen in that couldn't
otherwise get there and this basically
revives the immune system locally there
where the white blood cells can start
doing their job it acts synergistically
with the antibiotic so in other words
the antibiotics work better because of
the oxygen and so the the chemical
reactions that need to occur occur in a
in a proper fashion and the immune
system factors that play in with the
antibiotics are able to do what they're
supposed to do
it is a scary disease it's very rapid
and as you said you can lose limbs as
well as your life people become
overwhelmed with the infection and often
die of sepsis
the treatment of necrotizing
itís or flesh-eating bacteria is
surgical but also antibiotics and then
the hyperbaric oxygen therapy is the
third prong that helps to suppress and
heal that infection
there's no doubt that hyperbaric oxygen
can make a tremendous difference in
these cases and I think in her case in
particular she had just an absolutely
marvelous rapid turnaround where she
went from being very sick and having a
terrible infection to having good
looking tissue within a couple of days
the treatments about two hours and we do
that twice a day in these emergency
cases like the necrotizing fasciitis
people are put in a chamber it's like a
clear plastic tube and because it's
clear we're able to have them watch TV
through the tube and so they've got
something to do besides just lay there
quietly and the oxygen just does the
trick it the oxygen is not topical it's
not absorbed through the skin it has to
be breathed in and so that's why the
whole body has to go into the chamber
and they hyper oxygenate the blood and
that blood gets to the the affected
tissues
