Australian woman Caitlin Alsop almost died after a trapped wisdom tooth led to sepsis — forcing doctors to put her into a coma in order to save her life.
Caitlin Alsop had been enjoying a “quiet dinner” with friends when her life, very suddenly, turned upside down.
Within a matter of hours, however, her tongue “was quite swollen, and my airway started to close a little bit.”Australian woman Caitlin Alsop almost died after a trapped wisdom tooth led to sepsis.Upon arrival at hospital, medics first suspected she was in anaphylaxis — a severe allergic reaction. “And then my tongue went black. And that was where there were talks of amputation …[They were] trying to figure out what was going on. And I am so grateful to the doctors and nurses and the whole medical team who did save my life, because I was a mystery for quite a while.
Doctors needed to “comatose me and paralyze me because I really needed to be completely sedated,” Alsop said, and even
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