A WOMAN was left with a gaping hole in her neck after a doctor mistook a “flesh-eating” abscess in her neck for tonsillitis. Stacey Raymond, 32, went to see her doctor with a sore throat and was sent ...

“I woke up with a slightly sore throat but the pain had increased rapidly so I thought it was probably a bout of tonsillitis,” Raymond, 32, said, according to The Sun. “My wife Michel noticed swelling ...

An infection in the deep neck space causes a retropharyngeal abscess. The condition can cause fatal airway obstruction, so doctors treat it as a medical emergency. A person’s symptoms can include ...

Delayed recognition of severe dental diseases contributed to diagnostic uncertainty, rapid sepsis progression, and heart failure in a patient with a deep neck infection.

A WOMAN was left with a gaping hole in her neck after a doctor mistook a "flesh-eating" abscess in her neck for tonsillitis. Stacey Raymond, 32, went to see her doctor with a sore throat and was sent ...

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A woman was left paralysed and unable to feed herself after doctors failed to realise she had an abscess in her neck. Jean Warne, 74, was left partially paralysed and unable to lift her arms shortly ...

There is no specific condition that causes pain in the throat while yawning. However, yawning may exacerbate existing pain in the throat due to an underlying condition, such as an infection or an ...

Now 24, Mullins is raising awareness about the dangers of sepsis, a deadly infection that kills many and often goes undiagnosed until it's too late According to the World Health Organization in 2020, ...