LEMIERRE'S SYNDROME

Moving this from a page to a post:

When my daughter came across this site today, I felt that this would be a nice opportunity to share and possibly help someone.

Our lives were turned upside down last summer (2009) when our third daughter (Star Trek fan that she is, calls herself "3 of 7") became ill. This illness, Lemierre's Syndrome, had gotten a hold of her. It was a scary time- one that I would just as soon forget, but I want to share this because even the doctors (other than her infectiousness disease doctor) and nurses at the hospital did not know what this was. One nurse even printed up a Wikipedia type article so that she would have some information.

So, I want to share these websites with you.

http://www.lemierresyndrome.com/enrollment.html
This one has the most information.

http://lemierresyndromejrodgers.blogspot.com/

This disease is virulent and fast acting. It was fortunate that my daughter's diagnosis was made when it was. Sadly, for the young man and his family that the above links tell about, it did not come soon enough. Please read them. This information could have saved us a lot of heartache, and it could save a life. Thanks!

I would also like to add my own warning:

The time to be especially wary (from our experience) is when you or a loved one is diagnosed strep throat--- please never take a diagnosis of "strep throat" at any time without a test being done!! If you are having a "relapse" of suspected or diagnosed step throat, be even more wary. Have a test done before resuming any antibiotics to confirm that it is in fact strep.

Comments

  1. PattyOctober 14, 2011 at 11:08 AM

    Wow! This must have been so very frightening for all of you. Praise God you were lead down the right path!

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  2. UnknownOctober 14, 2011 at 3:00 PM

    Yikes! How scary! I'm glad that you were able to recognize it quickly for treatment!

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