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14-08-2015, 07:10 PM
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Aug 14, 2015 6:00am
BY HISYAM NASSER AND FOO JIE YING
It seemed like a standard case of food poisoning — vomiting, diarrhoea and bouts of fever.
But after Mr Tan Hwee Boon, 50, woke up after two weeks of drifting in and out of consciousness, he was shocked to find that his hands and feet were blackened and shrivelled.
Then came even greater shock: His hands and feet had to amputated.
His ordeal started on July 13, when he felt giddy and suffered bouts of vomiting and diarrhoea in his four-room flat in Woodlands.
His wife, Madam Choong Siet Mei, 47, said the doctors had to administer a drug to save his life and keep him sedated during the two weeks.
However, the drug caused the narrowing of the blood vessels in his limbs and gangrene set into his hands and feet, said Madam Choong, who added that doctors had warned her about potential side effects among some patients.
"I was so scared. Not just for myself, but for my family," Mr Tan said as he looked as his wife.
"I work as a technician. What future do I have at work now?"
Mr Tan, who is the sole breadwinner of his family, has two children - a son, 14, and a daughter, 15.
Read the full report in our print edition on Aug 14.
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http://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore-new...hands-and-feet (http://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore-news/mans-shock-food-poisoning-losing-his-hands-and-feet)
http://www.tnp.sg/sites/default/files/styles/story_big_image/public/articles/2015/08/14/limbs.jpg?itok=ik08AH2f
Aug 14, 2015 6:00am
BY HISYAM NASSER AND FOO JIE YING
It seemed like a standard case of food poisoning — vomiting, diarrhoea and bouts of fever.
But after Mr Tan Hwee Boon, 50, woke up after two weeks of drifting in and out of consciousness, he was shocked to find that his hands and feet were blackened and shrivelled.
Then came even greater shock: His hands and feet had to amputated.
His ordeal started on July 13, when he felt giddy and suffered bouts of vomiting and diarrhoea in his four-room flat in Woodlands.
His wife, Madam Choong Siet Mei, 47, said the doctors had to administer a drug to save his life and keep him sedated during the two weeks.
However, the drug caused the narrowing of the blood vessels in his limbs and gangrene set into his hands and feet, said Madam Choong, who added that doctors had warned her about potential side effects among some patients.
"I was so scared. Not just for myself, but for my family," Mr Tan said as he looked as his wife.
"I work as a technician. What future do I have at work now?"
Mr Tan, who is the sole breadwinner of his family, has two children - a son, 14, and a daughter, 15.
Read the full report in our print edition on Aug 14.
Subscribe to The New Paper, now available in print and digital, at http://$$$$$$$/tnpeshop.
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?212740-man-loses-hands-and-feet-from-food-poisoning-yusheng-the-most-likely-cause&goto=newpost).