Bra scratch left Scots woman in coma after flesh-eating bacteria attacked her boob
dailyrecord.co.ukA Scots woman was left in an eight-day coma after a deadly flesh-eating bug attacked her boob - caused by a scratch from her bra.
Sylvia Halcrow believes the metal in her underwire bra caused an injury which developed into a dangerous bacterial infection called necrotising fasciitis.After attending her local GP and being given painkillers, the 53-year-old civil servant rushed herself A&E when her condition deteriorated.
Doctors did days of tests on an abscess on her right breast before she was diagnosed with the disease and told her organs had started shutting down, she said.She had surgery and woke from an induced coma eight days later with some of her breast removed, and a 15-inch scar running from her ribs to under her arm.
Sylvia, from Lerwick, Shetland, is now back at work.She said: "I came very close to not surviving it at all so I'm very grateful indeed.
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