Eating bacterial infection in humans potentially related to the renovation of the bathroom

Josh Munoz was in the shower when he noticed that the skin of his thigh was coming off.
(Fox 2 Detroit)

An anniversary trip to Texas nearly became fatal for a Detroit man last month, when he noticed that the flesh on his thigh was being peeled off while he was in the shower.

"I ended up wiping the flesh off my thigh, and it was not like you had burst a blister, but something was really not going to go," said Josh Munoz, a Home Contractor, at Fox 2 Detroit.

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Munoz reported his wife, Sarah, and then called his doctor, who told him to go immediately to the hospital. But the couple, who has three sons aged 16, 14 and 2, chose to take 20 hours back to his home country to get closer to his children. Munoz said that he was losing consciousness and losing consciousness during the trip.

Munoz told the media that when they finally arrived at the hospital, the doctor diagnosed him with necrotizing fasciitis, also called flesh-eating bacteria, and that he was operated on in the hospital. ;hour. The doctors reportedly told him that if he and his wife had stopped all night on their trek across the country, the infection would probably have killed him.

The rare bacterial infection that spreads quickly in the body can result in death and loss of a limb. Diagnosis, rapid antibiotic treatment and rapid surgery are essential to treat it. Munoz told Fox 2 Detroit that the doctors thought he had contracted the infection by coming into contact with a fecal bacterium while he was working on a client's bathroom renovation.

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The small business owner has already undergone three surgeries and a pig skin transplant, according to the Houston Chronicle.

"I could see what the wound was like," he told reporters. "It looks like Hannibal Lecter has cut the top of my thigh."

His recovery will include up to six months of bed rest and several other surgeries. Friends have created a GoFundMe page to help the family cover the medical and living expenses of their three boys.

"It's horrible financially, what a burden," Munoz told Fox 2 Detroit. "My family and I depend on the small business we have created with my hands, with my income, there is no income when we can not walk."