He arrived at the hospital with a shocking infection and discovered that it was what was "eating his arm"

April 12, 2019

The protest was held in Guangzhou, China, and was diagnosed as the "gardener's disease".

A man of 65 years went to the hospital after suffering a unpleasant infection who claimed to "eat his arm". Once in the institution, the interested person told the doctors that he had suffered trauma to the arm months before and that after the coup d'etat, he had started to notice that there was a rash on his forearm and his right hand.

Not knowing what was attempted to heal the wound with a mixture of "juices and herbs", her condition did not improve. When he arrived at the hospital Memorial Sun Yat-sen in Guangzhou, China, they noticed a big red rash that formed blisters and ulcers, with spots of "crust" on the skin of the arm.

The specialists did a biopsy to establish the cause of the rash. In the sampled skin sample, A dimorphic mushroom called "Sporotrix schenckii" began to develop.

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The doctor Jinglin says that they diagnosed the man with a case of sporotrichosis, dubbed "Gardener's disease". "The infection usually affects the skin and subcutaneous tissues and it is produced by inoculating the plant fungus and soil through the skin, "said the doctor, who also warned that people with compromised or weakened immune systems were more likely to contract it.

Finally, the medical team that treated the patient with antifungal medications and, four months later, rash and healed sores.

The sporotrichosis it is a fungal infection with subacute or chronic evolution, acquired by traumatic inoculation or inhalation of conidia of certain species of the complex. "Sporothrix schenckii". The disease can affect humans and animals. It is usually found mainly on the face and on the thoracic and pelvic extremities.