{"id":908,"date":"2024-09-26T11:47:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T11:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=908"},"modified":"2024-09-26T11:47:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T11:47:48","slug":"brazilian-woman-in-colorado-paralyzed-from-deadly-bacteria-common-pantry-item-suspected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/?p=908","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian woman in Colorado paralyzed from deadly bacteria, common pantry item suspected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 23-year-old woman in Colorado is fighting for her life after she allegedly ate something that is found in most American pantries.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, originally from Brazil, was on an exchange program in Aspen when she was overcome by a sudden onset of dizziness, double vision, and difficulty breathing.<\/p>\n<p>posterposter<br \/>\nWithin 24 hours of her first symptoms, Claudia de Albuquerque Celada lost all mobility, became paralyzed, and was placed on a ventilator.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil\u2019s Claudia de Albuquerque Celada was spending her winter in Aspen, Colorado on a work exchange program, \u201cdoing the [job] she always dreamed of working.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But, in mid-February, things became a nightmare for the previously healthy 23-year-old woman, who is also an avid snowboarder.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe id=\"instagram-embed-0\" class=\"instagram-media instagram-media-rendered\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CtIKOdrOAt3\/embed\/captioned\/?cr=1&amp;v=14&amp;wp=640&amp;rd=https%3A%2F%2Fen.newsner.com&amp;rp=%2Fnews%2Fbrazilian-woman-in-colorado-paralyzed-from-deadly-bacteria-common-pantry-item-suspected%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwY2xjawFiKN5leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHY5ZJrC_ywqYBwUofS6tLGu0mx0EGiPiZ5XMljlosWoxx3YvOBm-fmj0Nw_aem_h5y6L#%7B%22ci%22%3A0%2C%22os%22%3A1158.199999988079%7D\" height=\"1256\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-instgrm-payload-id=\"instagram-media-payload-0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe>\u201cShe took a shower, had dinner and went to bed, but she had shortness of breath, blurred vision and dizziness. She sent a message to her friends to go to her apartment,\u201d her sister Luisa\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uol.com.br\/vivabem\/noticias\/redacao\/2024\/04\/16\/uti-aerea-custa-rs-1-milhao-brasileira-contrai-bacteria-rara-nos-eua.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told<\/a>\u00a0the Portuguese media. She explains that when Claudia\u2019s friends arrived the next morning, \u201cmy sister was already much worse, she could barely breathe on her own and she had facial paralysis. Some other very weak muscles, weak arms, weak legs. She went to the hospital and, soon after, she was 100% paralyzed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It took two weeks for doctors to discover the paralysis was due to botulism.<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsner-c946bc99c29473bfac82c04b3d6baf17\" class=\"newsner-c946bc99c29473bfac82c04b3d6baf17 newsner-amp_article_inside_content\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cAfter countless exams, tests, hospital transfer, spinal punctures and plasma transfusion, on [March 1] we had the diagnosis: botulism. It\u2019s an extremely rare disease that destroys nerves and muscle connections, taking several months to recover.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Botulism, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/botulism\/general.html#:~:text=Botulism%20(%E2%80%9CBOT%2Dchoo%2D,butyricum%20and%20Clostridium%20baratii%20bacteria.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>\u00a0(CDC), \u201cis\u00a0a rare but serious illness caused by a toxin that attacks the body\u2019s nerves and causes difficulty breathing, muscle paralysis, and even death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CDC also notes that \u201c\u2026improperly home-canned, preserved or fermented foods can provide the right conditions for spores to grow and make botulinum toxin.\u201d The spores act like protective coatings for the bacteria, helping it survive in even in extreme conditions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-909\" src=\"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/shutterstock_1405606991-768x512-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/shutterstock_1405606991-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/shutterstock_1405606991-768x512-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 23-year-old woman in Colorado is fighting for her life after she allegedly ate something that is found in most American pantries. The woman, originally from Brazil, was on an exchange program in Aspen when she was overcome by a sudden onset of dizziness, double vision, and difficulty breathing. posterposter Within 24 hours of her &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}