Flesh Eating Disease; How To Know If You Have Necrotizing Fasciitis

Symptoms Progress Rapidly

Should necrotizing fasciitis progress to more advanced symptoms, the patient will continue to experience a high fever or even hypothermia as well as potential dehydration. The pain from the initially affected area will also become more constant and severe than the original injury might indicate. The infected area, which can spread at a rate of roughly one inch per hour, tends to appear red (may also turn purple or black), swollen, shiny, and hot to the touch. Skin necrosis occurs when blisters appear in the infected area. The pain from necrotizing fasciitis is excruciating, but another late symptom is a sudden improvement in pain, which often indicates the nerves are dying. At this point, patients may become delirious, dizzy, and weak. In the end stages, the patient’s vital organs will begin to shut down because of toxic shock, the skin will continue to blacken, and the patient will soon die.

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