A young woman died after eating pasta that came out of the fridge for two days

A 20-year-old student was poisoned by a fatal bacteria that caused death after liver failure. All because of a precooked dough that remained outside the refrigerator for two days.

This rare clinical case is reported in an article in the US Journal of Clinical Microbiology, reported to a Belgian girl who died in 2008.

Although a few years after this tragic outcome, the case was published only scientifically , indicating that the cause of death was a bacterium that had developed into a mbad left to be abandoned. for two days.

The young man prepared meals from the week to Sunday, dividing them into portions ready to be heated in the microwave and kept in the refrigerator. He often used the same recipe as pasta with pre-cooked sauces .

However, at the fateful moment, he left one of the mbad containers in the refrigerator for two days. One of his roommates thought that the dough had been removed from the refrigerator for only a few hours and kept inside.

Five days after cooking the dough AJ warmed it up and ate it, even though it seemed to him that it had a weird taste compared to the 39 – usual – but he thought it was from a new sauce that he had used.

When he had finished eating, he began to experience stomach pains, then vomiting and diarrhea.

Urged to the emergency, doctors began to think that he was intoxicated with alcohol because they had liver failure .

His condition worsens and, after the liver, the kidneys also begin to fail, and his immune system almost no longer responds to antibiotics that he takes.

He died shortly after.

The autopsy performed confirmed that the cause of this sudden death was an infection caused by the bacterium Bacillus cereus that usually caused minor food poisoning.

The case of AJ was aggravated by the presence of a toxin that could be generated by a bacterium. These two factors combined, as well as the action of the aspirin drug when he was feeling bad, led to a fatal accumulation of fat in the liver.

Analysis of samples of used pasta and tomato sauce confirmed that the first was contaminated by "significant amounts" of the bacteria. The sauce contained no trace of Bacillus cereus .

This is an atypical case, as pointed out by the doctors who reported the case, because many people eat pasta that remained out of the refrigerator two days without dying. However, similar cases have already occurred. It is therefore best to be very careful with what you eat.