2023-06-29 22:26:51
They managed to identify the second bacterium that Silvina Luna has (File)
This Thursday the news regarding Silvina Luna’s health was a little more encouraging. Although the model remains in the intensive care room of the Italian Hospital on Wednesday night, they were able to remove mechanical assistance and she is already breathing on her own. The model, who has been admitted to that hospital since the beginning of June for a bacterium, in the last two weeks she had to be transferred to intensive care and be sedated in order to be assisted by a respirator.
On Thursday morning, Ángel De Brito confirmed the news through a tweet on his official account: “Last night while we were doing LAM, Silvina Luna was extubated. The doctors wanted to see how she spent the night, and she is already conscious and talking. He had a good night!” Also the journalist Mercedes Ninci had announced this novelty through a mobile for Someone has to say it, on Radio Miter. “They just told me that they took Silvina Luna’s respirator off and that she asked for a glass of water. That speaks of that he is better, it is good news, ”said the journalist.
However, in the followingnoon hours of Thursday it was learned that the doctors managed to identify a second bacterium that affects the health of the former Big Brother. In dialogue with Teleshow, Dr. Guillermo Capuya provided details regarding what it is regarding and what is the true severity that it presents.
“Actually, KPC is a superbug, because it is a multi-resistant bacterium, it is the same infection that Madonna had. It is Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase, as it is scientifically called, which, of course, affects people with weaker health, such as children, the elderly and the immunosuppressed, and causes serious infections”, the doctor began by explaining.
Ángel De Brito had confirmed that Silvina Luna had been removed from the respirator (Twitter)
Later, Capuya referred to its seriousness. “It is a very complex bacterium, because the treatment is long and sometimes requires multiple combinations of antibiotics to find those that manage to combat it. Seven, eight and up to ten antibiotics may be required to eradicate it”.
Regarding the way in which it might have been infected, the Institutional Director of the Finochietto Sanatorium said that it is very frequent in patients who are hospitalized. “It can be contracted through catheters, from saliva, by contact. The truth is that when doctors have a culture with KPC it is a complicated problem, very complicated because this bacterium has the capacity to resist most antibiotics and can give generalized infections causing sepsis. It usually occurs mainly in intensive care units in hospitals precisely because of the weakness in their body that patients who are hospitalized there present.
“The treatment to combat it consists of specific antibiotics that can be given for approximately 10 to 14 days, combining them with each other. One of those commonly used is Polymyxin B and Tigecycline, among others”, concluded the specialist.
For his part, the infectologist Eduardo López spoke in América Noticias (America) and stressed that KPC is the bacterium that most complicates doctors. “It is difficult to treat but together with the work of the laboratory and the infectious disease doctors, they will decide which antibiotics to give the patient and in what dose to combat it. I also believe that, without knowing anything regarding Silvina Luna’s condition, if they took her off the respirator it is because the patient’s management is good and because she is responding to the antibiotics they are giving her. You have to start giving antibiotics that are suitable for this bacterium and sometimes many drugs are associated to improve the effect ”, he highlighted.
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