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“Monsters Inside Me” Review
I watched “Monsters Inside Me” season 4 episode 5 called My Husband is Hallucinating. This TV show was founded in 1982 and still aspires to the original mission statement established by founder John Hendricks. “To satisfy curiosity and make a difference in people's lives by providing the highest quality content, services and products that entertain, engage and enlighten." The episode tells 3 stories about uncommon diseases that humans faced and the hardships doctors had in identifying the cause of those illnesses. The first story was about a young boy Tyler from Colorado, who got meningococcal meningitis. The symptoms were flu-like at first: high-temperature, weakness in the body, dehydration, etc. But then he got a shortness of breath, very low blood pressure, rush and eventually blisters on his limbs. Only after running multiple tests for five days that a boy spent on life control doctors finally got the answer. Meningococcal meningitis is an inflammation of the brain and infection of the bloodstream caused by bacteria that traveled through boy’s vessels releasing toxins that clotted his bloodstream causing his vessels to burst into the tissue, and because of the lack of oxygen his arms and legs began to rote. This disease strikes 15,000 children and teenagers in the US annually, the vaccine exists but are not always compulsory because some people with weakened immune system are more prone to get the infection . The new prescribed antibiotics helped Tyler to survive, but doctors had to amputate his dead front feet and fingers on the right hand.
The second story was about a guy Sully from Alaska who started filling great muscle pain, sensitivity to the light and the noise, and even hallucinating. Then doctors discovered high eosinophils levels in his bloodwork(specialised white blood cells that became active when there are allergens or certain infection in the body) caused by trichinosis parasites in his body because he ate raw bear meat that was

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