A teen ate leftover rice and noodles. Hours later, doctors amputated his legs and fingers.

[Robert59]

A teen ate leftover rice and noodles. Hours later, doctors amputated his legs and fingers​

Hours after eating improperly stored leftovers from a restaurant, a 19-year-old was admitted to the hospital with multiple organ failure and had both his legs and all his fingers amputated.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/teen-ate-leftover-rice-noodles-155422253.html

 

[Robert59]

I will think twice next time about eating rice after reading this.

 

[RFW]

I don't know what condition his leftovers were in but I have, in the past, eaten reheated rice and noodles left unrefrigerated for up to 6 hours and the worst I got was an upset stomach. The teen seemed to have a very severe reaction to it while his friend only vomited.

 

[Jeni]

Dr. Bernard Hsu, a licensed toxicologist, described how the young man became severely ill after eating tainted leftovers, including lo mein, chicken and rice.

“This was a freak accident happening in a perfect storm sequence of events,” Hsu, who did not treat the man, said in a YouTube video on Feb 16.

The teen’s case was first reported in March 2021 in the New England Journal of Medicine, which detailed how he was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital as he was suffering from “shock, multiple organ failure, skin mottling, and a rapidly progressive reticular rash.”

He underwent blood and urine tests and was diagnosed with a bacterial infection called Neisseria meningitidis, which caused his blood to clot and his liver to fail.

His skin necrosis was said to be caused by “purpura fulminans,” a severe complication of meningococcal septicemia.

https://nypost.com/2022/02/22/student-had-legs-fingers-amputated-after-eating-leftover-chinese/


While it may have been a part of this .. the sensationalized headline is over done ...
no details of how they stored leftovers or possible food borne connection.....
No follow up on other possible causes since this as a severe case of meningitis with complications ...... which many of the symptoms are the same.
As i highlighted it was a probably one in a million event ....... but written (IMO) as if leftovers kill avoid at all cost drama....

 

[RadishRose]

I've read about the rice some time ago. Just follow the directions in the article about cooling it down properly.

 

[Alligatorob]

Scary, didn't we have some posts not long back about the risks of eating leftover rice?

Think I will try to stick with the fresh stuff.

 

[win231]

There are things that rarely happen.
I watched a case on "Personal Injury" where a woman went swimming in a lake along with many other people.
She got sick later & went to the ER & was hospitalized immediately. She developed some type of rare infection from a bacteria that was present in the lake. No one else got sick from it but she ended up having her leg amputated at the hip.

 

[Jeni]

There are things that rarely happen.
I watched a case on "Personal Injury" where a woman went swimming in a lake along with many other people.
She got sick later & went to the ER & was hospitalized immediately. She developed some type of rare infection from a bacteria that was present in the lake. No one else got sick from it but she ended up having her leg amputated at the hip.

exactly while tragic the media loves to portray this as it will happen to anyone near this lake etc.....
mostly because internet news gets paid by click on story so often the headlines are not supported by the story.

 

[Della]

Wow. My husband goes to his favorite Chinese restaurant for lunch three or four days a week. He always gets fried rice. The waitress scoops a bunch of the yellow rice off their lukewarm buffet and takes it to the kitchen where they fry it up with either shrimp or pork. I had thought, good, he wont get Covid because all the buffet crowd's germs would be fried out. Now we know this is the very worst thing to eat, if they don't get it really, really hot.

He served in Korea and Thailand for the USAF and still loves the food. Principal Skinner speaks for him:

 

[RFW]

Wow. My husband goes to his favorite Chinese restaurant for lunch three or four days a week. He always gets fried rice. The waitress scoops a bunch of the yellow rice off their lukewarm buffet and takes it to the kitchen where they fry it up with either shrimp or pork. I had thought, good, he wont get Covid because all the buffet crowd's germs would be fried out. Now we know this is the very worst thing to eat, if they don't get it really, really hot.

He served in Korea and Thailand for the USAF and still loves the food. Principal Skinner speaks for him:

True. Fried rice spoils faster than just plain rice. Can be refried or microwaved but if it gets a bit slimy and/or smells funny, there's no saving it.

 

[Fyrefox]

I will never look at my Chinese leftovers the same way again. Dang, something else to live in fear of! I think that the key consideration here is proper storage. Is there a won ton noodle with my name on it? At least I will have died happy…

 

[Sunny]

Good grief, this was ONE incident! How many millions of portions of Chinese leftovers are eaten every day, with no bad results? We can probably find a horror story about every kind of restaurant and every kind of food, if we're so inclined.

Doesn't sound like there's any need to panic over this.

 

[Nathan]

Just last night I tossed out some week old fried rice that DW brought home from her quilter's luncheon. whew, that was close!
I try to avoid rice anyway, in my constant weight control effort, if I'm going to strap on some calories I want the tastiest bang-for-the-buck.

 

[RFW]

Just last night I tossed out some week old fried rice that DW brought home from her quilter's luncheon. whew, that was close!
I try to avoid rice anyway, in my constant weight control effort, if I'm going to strap on some calories I want the tastiest bang-for-the-buck.

Yeah. Rice is really not good if you want to control your weight. Seems light in your mouth but not your stomach.

 

[Nathan]

Yeah. Rice is really not good if you want to control your weight. Seems light in your mouth but not your stomach.

Yeah, rice(and noodles) can be a real gut-bomb. I do like wild rice, not a huge difference in nutrition values, but at least what good stuff it does have is not striped away.

 

[Jace]

Learned my lesson...some time ago... whenever had Chinese food...
afterwards...got a raging headache....MSG!!
Since, if ever go to Chinese restaurant, ask if they use MSG.the server says, "No MSG, No MSG"...Yah, right!?!?
Ask me when was the last time had Chinese food?!?!?

 

[RFW]

Learned my lesson...some time ago... whenever had Chinese food...
afterwards...got a raging headache....MSG!!
Since, if ever go to Chinese restaurant, ask if they use MSG.the server says, "No MSG, No MSG"...Yah, right!?!?
Ask me when was the last time had Chinese food?!?!?

They always use MSG no matter what they say.

 

[Tish]

That is so scary.

 

[Della]

At the end of the article there's this:
"In 2008, a teenager died in his sleep after eating leftover pasta that wasn't refrigerated overnight, a case that was reported."

I think the main lesson we need to take from this is to keep close watch on our kitchens when teenagers are around because they will eat anything. The mother in that case was probably planning to throw out the pasta in the morning which would explain why it wasn't in the refrigerator. Pasta clogs my garbage disposal so I have to put it in the trash just before I take it out.