Phillip Maile picked up an extremely rare infection while holidaying in Turkey in 2022, and now his family are hoping to raise funds and awareness in tribute to the 65-year-old
A British holidaymaker died after “grazing” his leg on a piece of wood and going swimming in the sea in Turkey where he picked up an extremely rare flesh-eating bacteria that doctors were unable to stop from spreading despite amputating his leg twice.
Read more: Back and shoulder pain turned out to be terminal cancer for Irish mum - her town has raised €50,000 “But the second that you have a small cut or an open wound that is causing you more pain than it should be, bypass everything and get to the hospital because the chances are it will stop it from spreading and it can literally spread right in front of your eyes.”
“He got this little scratch which was tiny. It looked like a graze. That’s the best way to describe it,” said Charlotte. “Despite the waterproof dressing the seawater obviously got in, but we didn’t know this at the time,” said Charlotte.Phillip’s wound became infected with a rare type of bacteria called Vibrio vulnificus, sometimes dubbed the flesh-eating bacteria, as it can trigger necrotising fasciitis, a severe infection where the flesh around an open wound dies.
On September 9, just 24 hours after receiving her stepmother’s call, Charlotte and her siblings, Sarah, 37, and Edward, 35, were told to board a plane to Turkey as their father was being “blue lighted” to the Antalya Lara Anadolu Hospital. In a bid to halt Phillip’s infection from spreading doctors raced to clean and remove the dead or infected skin, a procedure known as debridement.
“They thought that had done it and we had a couple of days where we thought this is going in the right direction because even though he was intubated there was no necrotic smell,” said Charlotte.
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