Flesh-Eating Bug Attack Leaves Woman With Deformed Leg; Victim Shares Horrific Experience

A flesh-eating bug attack sent a woman in England into a coma and also left her with a deformed leg.

Loubna Trott of Bath had tripped and cut her knee while out running on a holiday in Mallorca, Spain, in the summer of 2019. The 51-year-old woman recently spoke out about her horrific experience of sepsis and the several operations she had to undergo to save her life.

"Every morning I would go for a run and one day towards the end of the holiday, I tripped and grazed my knees and my hands, I actually ripped my sports leggings," she said, according to SomersetLive. "There were quite a lot of people out that morning so I just carried on running, trying to pretend I was alright."

"I forgot about it for a few days but when we flew home there was a heatwave in the U.K. and I remember being really, really cold. Like I was shivering even though it was really hot outside. I had blurred vision and I was tired all the time. The next thing I remember was throwing up and collapsing in the bathroom. My husband called an ambulance, but the paramedics said I had just caught a tummy bug on holiday."

After returning home from the holiday, Trott began to feel unsteady on her legs and called her physician. Her husband then drove her to the hospital. The incident at her holiday left her with sepsis, multiple organ failure and she had to be put in a medically induced coma for roughly a week.

"Bacteria from the sea had gone into the graze on my knee and this flesh-eating bug, called necrotising fasciitis, had got into my leg and eaten all the way up from my knee to my thigh," Trott said. "I went into septic shock and they put me in a medically-induced coma. It was a massive threat to life and I went into multi-organ failure, but I didn’t know any of this until I woke up."

Trott said she had to undergo several surgeries on her leg to remove the harmful bacteria.

“The skin graft felt like a swarm of bees or wasps landed on my leg and all stung me at the same time,” Lou recalled, according to 7News. “No matter what painkillers they gave me, I could still feel the pain... There’s a lot to live for - I didn’t want my children to be without a mum.”

Trott went into an induced coma on July 19, 2019, and woke up on or around July 25 of the same year. After coming out of the coma, she had to learn how to walk again. She said it took her more than a year to get back to normal.

"The reason I survived was that I was fit, so now I think I have to stay fit to stay well, especially with Covid... My leg is horrendous, it looks like I have been in a fire. I have got skin grafts from the other side of my thigh - that was really, really painful. I do look at it and feel sad but I know am lucky to be alive," Trott told local media.