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'Bath-Salts' Injection Leads to Flesh-Eating Disease
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Last Edited | Penguin Jan 16, 2012 03:14pm |
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News Date | Monday, January 16, 2012 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | MONDAY, Jan. 16 (HealthDay News) -- The use of street drugs known as "bath salts" can lead to flesh-eating disease, a new study warns.
It describes the first known case of necrotizing fasciitis caused by an intramuscular injection of bath salts.
So-called bath salts are sold as synthetic powders that "often contain various amphetamine-like chemicals," according to the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse, which in February warned that injections might cause the ravaging skin condition.
Study authors Dr. Russell R. Russo, a third-year orthopedic surgery resident at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, and colleagues, saw the effects firsthand.
They treated a 34-year-old women who developed forearm pain and redness after she attended a party. She didn't have any other symptoms but did have a small red puncture wound on her arm. The women eventually admitted that she injected bath salts two days before her symptoms began. |
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