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e600

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1,467 posts

167 months

Sunday 8th September 2024
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My 35 year old niece returned fro a holiday in Turkey. 3 weeks later her legs face and back are covered in deep pitted scars. Holes and weeping abscesses which despite doctors best efforts weren’t clearing up.

Eventually she was diagnosed with Aquarium Granuloma, having just googled it, really quite horrific.

Contracted in the hotel swimming pool probably as the other possible causes were not encountered, cleaning aquariums, sea swimming, handling infected fish.

Insufficient chlorine in the pool gives rise to the growth and a simple cut or abrasion allows entry into the body.

Take care people

Havard22

51 posts

177 months

Sunday 8th September 2024
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That sounds horrific. Just got back from Turkey last Sunday. One thing that struck me what that maintenance and health and safety are not top of their list of priorities.

Which resort was she at?

21TonyK

12,433 posts

224 months

Sunday 8th September 2024
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Christ! Looking at a list of Turkish hotels and resorts for October holiday.

tms996

145 posts

182 months

Sunday 8th September 2024
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Good luck to her with her recovery. Just had to spend the last 3 weeks in Istanbul for work, at a supposedly 4-5 star hotel. Swimming pool is disgusting, regularly used by guests with bleeding head wounds after surgery!

Hate to think what is in it as I've never seen staff put any chemical in. Hotel hygiene is well down their list, makes the Spanish look advanced.

e600

Original Poster:

1,467 posts

167 months

Sunday 8th September 2024
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Havard22 said:
That sounds horrific. Just got back from Turkey last Sunday. One thing that struck me what that maintenance and health and safety are not top of their list of priorities.

Which resort was she at?
She went to Antalya. Im not sure I should name the hotel for obvious reasons, perhaps ask insist on a review of the hotels procedures regarding the pool

paradigital

1,035 posts

167 months

Sunday 8th September 2024
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Never understood the British obsession with going to a third world country for a holiday.

Sounds horrendous, I hope she makes a full recovery.

MikeM6

5,529 posts

117 months

Sunday 8th September 2024
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paradigital said:
Never understood the British obsession with going to a third world country for a holiday.
Odd comment, travel broadens your understanding of the world

StevieBee

14,221 posts

270 months

Tuesday 10th September 2024
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paradigital said:
Never understood the British obsession with going to a third world country for a holiday.

Sounds horrendous, I hope she makes a full recovery.
Would be worth you reading up on what classifies a country being third world.

The issue is maintenance. The same can occur anywhere.

oddman

3,222 posts

267 months

Tuesday 10th September 2024
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Kudos to whichever medic picked this up.

You could probably work a thousand years as a GP and a hundred as a dermatologist without seeing a case and then it would be a fish tank case with lesions distributed in the dominant hand and forearm giving a better clue to diagnosis.

e600

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1,467 posts

167 months

Tuesday 10th September 2024
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oddman said:
Kudos to whichever medic picked this up.

You could probably work a thousand years as a GP and a hundred as a dermatologist without seeing a case and then it would be a fish tank case with lesions distributed in the dominant hand and forearm giving a better clue to diagnosis.
Initially diagnosed as shingles, but when the condition didn’t respond to treatment they looked deeper.

oddman

3,222 posts

267 months

Wednesday 11th September 2024
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e600 said:
oddman said:
Kudos to whichever medic picked this up.

You could probably work a thousand years as a GP and a hundred as a dermatologist without seeing a case and then it would be a fish tank case with lesions distributed in the dominant hand and forearm giving a better clue to diagnosis.
Initially diagnosed as shingles, but when the condition didn’t respond to treatment they looked deeper.
All the same clap for GP. Hope treatment goes well. Will be quite lengthy and involved I imagine