Immunisation is the finest way to stop meningococcal disease but there is as yet no vaccine for serogroup B meninigococcal disease so other steps become extremely critical.
These contain enhanced awareness of the danger signs and performing quickly in gaining professional health-related enable. This video clip presents a shorter but distinct explanantion about how prompt action can help save a life. Professor Robert Booy from Australia’s NCIRS [http://www.ncisr.usyd.edu.au ]
5 minutes to help save a life: meningococcal disease
that is like my 6 year old jut got home last week she seems fine like you horrible illness
All I got is all scars over my neck
Can't believe I had this and didn't get anything from it
they said the only reason im still here today was the critical timing of when i went to outpatients, because i had to wait 2 hours in that time the rash appeared and thats what alerted them that i had it, any sooner they wouldnt have picked up on it, if i had of waited any longer then it would have been to late as i bearly made it as it was, like i said 3 hours from when they first saw me i was on life support thats how quick it gets you. just thought id share my experiance of this 🙂
im told i was in the coma for 9 days a while the treated me the disease had shut down my lungs and the only thing keeping me alive was the life support. they said i died a couple of times and was brought back to life then the antibiotics began to work and kill the disease and i improved. when i woke it was a miracle that i had survived and made a full recovery. i still have scar on my knees from the rash and lost hearing in one ear but apart from that im am lucky to be back to normal… (cont)
i am one of the few lucky people to survive from meningococcal disease, i know first hand how quickly this disease can kill, oneday i was feeling sick and got worse my freind took me to outpatients and we waited 2 hours before i was seen, in that time the rash appeared on my hand and other symtons alerted the docs that i had meningococcal. they put a needle in my spine to take a sample of the fluid and i went unconsious. 3 hours later i was on full life support and in a coma…. (cont)
I had this disease and it is so dangerous im lucky to be alive and have all my limbs.