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According to a testimony reported by The Mirror, a 50-year-old British woman would have lived through hell following a scratch caused by her bra, going so far as to be plunged into a coma. A rare bacterial infection would be involved.
It was a small scratch that turned out to be much less harmless than expected. According to information from Mirror dating from July 19, Sylvia Halcrow, a 53-year-old British woman discovered in May 2022 a small scratch under her right breast, caused simply by the underwire of her bra. A trivial injury… which nevertheless turned into a nightmare.
Victim of a flesh-eating disease
A few days later, the injury progressed and the 50-year-old noticed a “painful abscess under the right breast. She decides to go see a doctor, who treats her with antibiotics. But the pain does not decrease, worse: it increases. Sylvia Halcrow goes to the emergency room. “When I arrived, the nurse looked at me and rushed me inside. My face was totally gray. It was really scary” she says.
Different doctors talk about various treatments that prove to be ineffective. It was then that the verdict fell: Sylvia Halcrow was the victim of a rare and dangerous bacterial infection, called necrotizing fasciitis, or “flesh-eating disease”, since it affects the tissues under the skin as well as the muscles and muscles. organs.
The patient is in a coma
It is a rare disease that causes considerable tissue destruction and can cause death. Necrotizing fasciitis can be caused by different bacteria, including group A strep, but it’s unclear if this is the case for Sylvia Halcrow.
Faced with this observation, a decision is necessary: the fifty-year-old is then plunged into an artificial coma to remove the infected tissue: “They put me in an artificial coma, and I had two operations to remove the flesh-eating bacteria. Looking back, I’m glad I was unconscious because I think I would have been really traumatised”. In total, the coma lasts 8 days. Sylvia remains in hospital for another 3 weeks before being released safely.
Today, fortunately, the 50-year-old no longer has any sequelae, except for a great scare to tell and a scar of a few centimeters under the right breast. She’s also given up on – understandably – underwired bras. “I don’t always feel my best now in certain clothes but the main thing is that I’m alive and here to tell the story” she concludes.