A 20-year-old Brazilian woman has died of an infection that caused her the piercing she put in her lips, The victim named Andressa Souza was admitted to the hospital for intensive care Life Hospital in DoradosBut he died despite the doctors’ efforts to save his life.
The teenager was admitted to the hospital with severe headache and fever. At first doctors attributed it to a case dengue, a disease that is spreading in the area where the girl lived. the infection was actually due to a bad piercing on the lip
“we see that his mouth was swollenThere was no way to move it. It was so swollen that there was no way to remove the piercing,” said the young woman’s mother, while doctors explained that the infection originated in the lower lip, but quickly spread to the girl’s bloodstream and brain.
After being hospitalized for 24 days in the intensive care unit of the care centre, it was decided to have her surgery, during which she died.
An example in Santa Fe
In October 2016, a 14 year old teenager He died of a generalized infection at a hospital in the city of Santa Fe, whose entry point was an ear lobe where an earring was placed.
It is about a boy who lived in the San Lorenzo neighborhood, west of the capital of Santa Fe, and died Orlando Alasia Children’s Hospital Weekend, seven days after the ring was placed.
On that occasion, Osvaldo González Carrillo, director of Alacia Hospital, said that the young man was admitted “last week with an initial picture (of infection) in the hip which later led to a generalized infection.”
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the doctor explained that “The entrance was an earring, a piercing that was placed in the lobe of one ear” and he remarked that “these are not very frequent cases or that they cause such severe infections”, but that “it prompts us to reflect on the conditions in which these objects are can be placed”.
