Outdoor Professsor's Tips

Hello, I'm the OUTDOOR PROFESSOR from DiscoveringTheOutdoors.com/  Here's your outdoor tip on necrotizing fasciitis—commonly known as the flesh-eating disease.  It is extremely rate, but it is a vicious bacterial infection that causes your body tissue to die destroying skin, muscles, and fat.  It develops when the bacteria enters the body usually through a cut or scrape.  These bacteria multiply releasing toxins that kill tissue and cut off blood flow to the infected area. Symptoms of infection include small, red lumps or bumps on the skin that rapidly spread with sweating chills, fever, and nausea.  Organ failure and shock are often complications. It’s important to treat a victim immediately to prevent death.  Sufferers are usually treated with antibiotics and surgery to remove dead tissue.  Amputation is often necessary if the disease spreads through a limb.  Patients can undergo skin grafts after the infection is cleared up to help the healing process