How much did you know about sepsis infection before the Brazilian model recently died?”
One look at her photo, and you can’t help but ask: How could someone so young and vibrant die so quickly from an infection? Brazilian model Mariana Bridi da Costa was a healthy 20-year-old when doctors told her she had a urinary tract infection, her family says. The infection spread, and after amputating her feet, doctors thought they had the situation under control, according to a blog run by a family friend. “She’s alive, [she] will survive,” Renato Lindgren wrote on the blog on January 20, before da Costa also had to have her hands amputated, and part of her stomach and both kidneys extracted. “She can eat well, visit the sea, swim, travel, talk with her friends and family, marry and have a baby. She has a full and beautiful life ahead.” Four days later, da Costa was dead. Sepsis — the body’s inflammatory response to an infection — really can kill that quickly, according to Dr. Kevin Tracey, author of a book about sepsis called “Fatal Sequence: The Killer Within.” “This isn’t a on
But the difference in my mother and the Brazilian model was my mom’s was acquired while she was in the hospital dealing with fluid on her knee. They caught it in time but it still had to be treated with high dose antibiotics in the hospital and a central line in her chest (IV catheter in her chest almost directly over her heart) when she left the hospital for 2 months. We were extremely lucky that they did catch it in time and it showed up in her bloodwork or else this would have killed her. She lost a tremendous amount of weight and was sick for months afterward. Here is some more information for you: Mariana Bridi da Costa has died according to PerezHilton.com. She was a model and Brazilian Miss World finalist. The cause of death was septicemia. Her hands and feet had been amputated due to septicemia-related necrosis (tissue rapidly dies). Septicemia impedes blood flow and may also Model Mariana Bridi Da Costa Dies Due to Septicemia
