The affected patients develop fever and chills, and the painful area may be red, slightly swollen, warm, and with overlying blisters. The first and typical symptom of the disease is the rapid onset of severe pain in the infected area. Symptoms of necrotizing fasciitis can appear very quickly - within a day - after a cut or other wound in the skin. However, necrotizing fasciitis can also occur in young, healthy people. That is why it is often older people or people with a weakened immune system who are affected by the disease. As a rule, the body's immune system succeeds in killing bacteria that enter the body. It is often not possible to find out how the bacterium got into the body. The bacteria can also come with the blood from other parts of the body and colonize the affected area. The pathogens can get into the soft tissue through small cuts, scratches, other wounds, or burns. Inflammation can spread from superficial as well as internal tissue damage. A combination of different bacteria is often the cause. Necrotizing fasciitis is one of the most serious infections caused by group A streptococci because the bacterium creates large amounts of toxins in the body.
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Group A streptococci live on the skin and throat of many people without causing harm, but can sometimes cause mild and, exceptionally, severe infections. As a result, this condition puts physicians' diagnostic abilities and surgical tenacity to the test. Differentiating NF from other soft tissue infections is notoriously tough, but it is critical since NF is a medical emergency that requires immediate and intensive surgical debridement. NF and STSS are occasionally seen together. Group A streptococcus (type 2 NF) is the most common cause of NF, and it can lead to streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS), which is characterized by shock and multiple organ failures caused by a toxin produced by group A streptococcus.
Type I is polymicrobial, whereas type II is monomicrobial. Immediate treatment and hospitalization are urgent, and usually, the inflamed tissue must be surgically removed. Usually, necrotizing fasciitis develops very quickly and can become life-threatening within hours or days. Left untreated, the disease can lead to death.
The disease can be very dramatic, with shock and damage to internal organs. NF is a rare bacterial inflammation (infection) that can destroy the skin and underlying tissues (connective tissue, subcutaneous fat, muscles, and muscle membranes). The etiology has been known for ages, and Joseph Jones, a former Confederate Army surgeon, coined the term "Necrotizing Fasciitis" in 1871. Hippocrates originally characterized necrotizing fasciitis (NF) in the fifth century, and it is a life-threatening soft tissue illness.
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