Woman In Australia Ends Up In Coma After Biting Her Tongue, Find Out What Happened
You have probably experienced the excruciating pain that comes with biting one’s own tongue. The unfortunate slip that we are all bound to encounter once in a while On days when our brain fails to manage our body, the tongue slips its mark, and the bite comes chomping down.
While this might be a mundane slip for some, one woman in Australia had to pay a pretty hefty price for accidentally biting her own tongue. The woman bit her tongue and unexpectedly landed in the hospital.
Australian Woman Bites Her Own Tongue, Unexpectedly Ends Up In Coma
In a normal accident, most people would experience sharp pain and sometimes even end up with a bloody tongue, but the effects naturally subside. Even if the cut is deep, it really requires medical treatment.? ?
However, for the Australian woman, her low-key dinner with a friend turned into a nightmare. The harrowing experience started with a sharp turn of events. When the 27-year-old woman accidentally bit her tongue during dinner, she was unable to breathe.
The woman, identified as Caitlin Alsop, a Gold Coast native from Australia, was on a dinner out with her friend.?She told?SEEN TV that initially she gave the matter no heed. She says she took it "easy." However, it was only hours later that the effects of the fatal bite started showing up.
Also, hours later, she started having breathing problems, and her speech started to slur until she was completely unable to talk. That is when Alsop decided to pay a visit to the doctor and get her sudden decline checked. Even the medical experts could not pinpoint the effects of the tongue bite at first.
Doctors Thought It Was Simply An Allergic Reaction
The doctor, as per protocol, prescribed Alsop medicines after thinking that she had suffered an allergic reaction called anaphylaxis. The young woman’s condition, though, was far from getting cured and was even worsening. She added, "My skin was red and blue and actually peeling off. And then my tongue went black."?
She recalled that at the time "there were talks of amputation," seeing as the cause of the disease seemed unusual. The Daily Mail reports that after undergoing countless tests, the doctors found out that Aslop was suffering from a rare and life-threatening infection known as Ludwig’s angina.
The infection started spreading inside her mouth due to a wisdom tooth she was entirely unaware of. To save Aslop, the doctors had to put her in an induced coma. She explained, "Because they need to preserve your oxygen, they need to preserve your airways. And they also need to make sure that your organs don’t start shutting down."
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