by adopting, feeding and petting a cat street without taking precautions, a 24-year-old girl sickened gravity contracting Guillain-Barre. Gemma Birch found a small cat on the street and decided to take her to his apartment where they fed her and stroked as “Catarina” as it was named the cat, did not cease to follow her everywhere. The girl was holiday in Albufeira, Portugal when you begin to develop uncontrolled vomiting and fainting during the flight back to your home.
Then arrive at their destination was transferred to the hospital where doctors diagnosed an infection caused by eating raw chicken, but she said take a strict diet vegan. After questioning it to find other causes, the doctors asked if he had had contact with animals and she remembered to Catarina. Doctors said that he probably contracted the infection through your cat. To overcome episodes of vomiting, she was given high, but returned days complaining of a leg etumencimiento was when receipt the diagnosis: Guillain-Barre syndrome, which causes a neurological disorder in which the immune system attacks the system nervous.
Due to the illness she was bedridden in a wheelchair and after several months of therapy he learned to walk again, but not before suffering loss of control of the bladder, intestines, arms and hands. After 14 long months the young man recovered his health and could walk again but with sequelae as entumencimiento tips each having an infection. Specialists recommend that prior to a cat or any stray animal home should take precautions such as a bath, deworming and putting vaccines appropriate in addition to practicing it with a veterinarian health exams.
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