‘How will this one be treated?’, Lab result of patient with ‘knotty’ infection stomps netizens

A lab report of a certain patient is trending on X (Twitter) after it was posted by a medical doctor.

The report shows that all known antibiotics have little or no effect on the strain of bacteria found in the system of the patient.

The report has resurrected a discussion on drug abuse and drug resistance as a looming menace that needs to be curbed immediately in the interest of society.

A Twitter user who identified himself as Dr. Ray posted the lab result today and it has been generating reactions since then.

The urine culture and sensitivity report apparently belongs to a patient with a urinary or sexually transmitted infection.

The report identified the organism afflicting the patient as ‘pseudomonas aeruginosa’.

The befuddling part of the report was that a total of 24 antibiotics were tested on the organism and it is resistant to them all.

On the thread, someone said a neighbour is in a similar situation after picking up a sexually transmitted disease that he had spent a lot of money treating. He claimed that no locally available antibiotic was successful in treating the infection.

He said the only drug that proved effective against the strain of organism was not available locally and would cost N1.5m for one shot and the man requires seven shots.

Some reactions to the posted lab result:

@joyh__ wrote: “Where do you want to start from!!?😭😭”

@NegiJames: “Jesus! I’m not a doctor but how will this patient be treated? 😭”

@leemaro01: “Use the anti-pseudomonas regimen (ticacillin) with a large scoop of prayer because it’s only Jehovah Rapha that can cure this one 😭”

@UgoAgro_: “Back to Natural Spices Asap”

@estherprecios: “Even meropenem?? Omooo!!!! This guy been dey date different generation of antibiotics at different points of en life🤦🏾‍♀️This lab is nice sef, they tried this much antibiotics?? Impressive”

@David_D_realest: “But what could cause this kind of antibiotics resistant? Is it down to the strain of Pseudomomas  or abuse of antibiotics”

@ms_lindaa: “They take antibiotics at every slight chance without seeing a doctor and when you tell them about antibiotics resistance, they don’t listen”

@_olah___: “When you try to advise people that lick antibiotics like Tom Tom, they won’t listen”