A women from New Orleans experimented with the illicit "drugs" dubbed "bath salts" which had costed her arm after a flesh eating bacteria that invaded a injection site. A 34-year-old women showed up at a Louisiana hospital complaining o pain and redness on her right forearm. She had a puncture wound from a needle stick she had admitted. She says the symptoms started two days ater she injected bath salts at a party. She was given strong antibiotics for a skin infection and it seemed to be getting better. Two days later the she was still in pain and had a closer examination. Doctors had discovered a growing redness, sloughing skin and a smelly drainage. She was immediately sent to surgery after doctors suspected the infection was still growing. The doctors were scared for her life and had to remove her right arm and shoulder and they stripped away the dead muscle. Also preformed was a radical mastectomy and cut away more healthy skin. The diagnosis was necrotizing fasiitis which is caused by streptooccus bacteria This flesh-eating bacteria can kill very quicly and normally victims require surgery within hours.
http://vitals.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/15/10159359-woman-loses-arm-to-flesh-eating-bacteria-from-bath-salts
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44993663/ns/health-health_care/t/bath-salts-chemical-banned-us/
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