Friend of a friend got Vasculitis (Photos under spoilers)

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Friend of a friend got Vasculitis (Photos under spoilers)

Postby Jay » Mon Aug 04, 2014 10:45 am

A friend of a friend of mine traveled to Vietnam and got some kind of skin rash. It started as red spots and turned into one of the most grotesque things I've ever seen. He went to UCLA medical (top 5) and apparently they couldn't identify it and prescribed him prednisone steroids which exacerbated his condition. Finally it was identified as Henoch-Schönlein Purpura vasculitis. Photos.

Seriously this is pretty gross. Warning for those who don't have a strong stomach. For a second, a few people thought he might have gotten bubonic plague. This is really really really bad. Just thought I'd share for the scientifically curious people here.

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Re: Friend of a friend got Vasculitis (Photos under spoilers)

Postby leah » Mon Aug 04, 2014 12:51 pm

YAK YAK YAK.

is he ok now?

also: YAK
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Re: Friend of a friend got Vasculitis (Photos under spoilers)

Postby brinstar » Mon Aug 04, 2014 8:27 pm

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Re: Friend of a friend got Vasculitis (Photos under spoilers)

Postby Jay » Mon Aug 04, 2014 10:00 pm

Yeah they had some dermotologists come in, diagnose it and are treating it. He says he feels immensely better compared to feeling like his body was on fire before.
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Re: Friend of a friend got Vasculitis (Photos under spoilers)

Postby Harrison » Tue Aug 05, 2014 1:53 pm

There isn't much on this earth in picture form that can make me ill.

That pair of pictures did it.
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Re: Friend of a friend got Vasculitis (Photos under spoilers)

Postby Drem » Tue Aug 05, 2014 11:19 pm

you should put this on /r/wtf

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Re: Friend of a friend got Vasculitis (Photos under spoilers)

Postby Gypsiyee » Wed Aug 06, 2014 9:14 am

sweet jesus..

that looks like it could scar pretty badly, yea? any idea how he got it? I mean I would think that if he got it from a specific region, he would've seen others that were infected too..?
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Re: Friend of a friend got Vasculitis (Photos under spoilers)

Postby Jay » Wed Aug 06, 2014 12:04 pm

No idea and even the idea that he got it while he was in Vietnam is speculative at best. All we know was he was in Vietnam, came back, had rashes, then rashes turned into that. He saw multiple doctors and dermatologists before getting a diagnosis.
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Re: Friend of a friend got Vasculitis (Photos under spoilers)

Postby Jay » Wed Aug 06, 2014 12:05 pm

Drem wrote:you should put this on /r/wtf

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It's actually already on Reddit if you google "Marn disease".
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Re: Friend of a friend got Vasculitis (Photos under spoilers)

Postby Gypsiyee » Thu Aug 07, 2014 9:44 am

Do you know if it's contagious? Shit looks like it needs to be quarantined.
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Re: Friend of a friend got Vasculitis (Photos under spoilers)

Postby Arlos » Thu Aug 07, 2014 1:07 pm

Vasculitis (according to Google, anyway) is more an auto-immune situation where the body's defenses against disease start attacking the linings of its own blood vessels. The vessels get inflamed and have local breakages. That's what causes his skin to look like that. The inflamed vessels cause the raised parts, while the breakages lead to bleeding under the skin, resulting in bruises, etc. From that picture, it looks like some of the bleeding happened close enough to the surface to cause external bleeding, which results in all the scabs and continued "oozing" as the damaged blood vessels keep leaking.

From what I've read, most of the time it's unclear what causes the situation to start. It could be an infection of some kind (Hepatitis C is mentioned, but I doubt he has that or Jay would've mentioned it), but it could just as easily be an allergic reaction to something. That's what I'd bet in this case, since it started while he was in a foreign country. Probably something there (maybe even a mosquito bite) sent his immune system haywire.

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Re: Friend of a friend got Vasculitis (Photos under spoilers)

Postby Jay » Thu Aug 07, 2014 1:38 pm

It is not contagious. Afaik, he doesn't have any hep c or anything.
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