A warning has been issued after a 23-year-old woman was left paralysed from eating soup leftovers.
Plenty of people eat leftovers on a daily basis and thankfully reports of people having severe reactions beyond food poisoning, including even losing limbs from eating them, are very rare.
However, bacterial reactions to improperly heated or stored leftovers can lead to life-changing injuries.
Health issues have issued a warning about it as a Brazilian woman has been left paralysed after a rare bacterial infection believed to have been picked up from eating soup leftovers.
Claudia de Albuquerque Celada was working in Colorado on an exchange programme when she was hospitalised with paralysis, dizziness, double vision and shortness of breath in February.
Two weeks after her admission, she was diagnosed with botulism – a rare and serious condition in which a toxin attacks the body’s nerves. She has been hospitalised on a breathing aid ever since.
