Women coughs so hard she breaks RIB


Laughing so hard your sides split is one thing, but one woman has actually coughed so hard she broke a rib.

When the 66-year-old woman, who has not been named in the report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, first went to see her doctor, it was thought she merely had the flu.

She’d had a dry cough for two weeks and a pain in her right side, but the treatment she was given for the flu did nothing to ease her symptoms.

When she went back to the doctor five days later, she lifted up her top to show a large dark mark on the right side of her torso, and it was clear there was another problem.

The woman, from Massachusetts, underwent a CT scan which revealed that she had a displaced fracture of her ninth rib - the rib had broken and the two ends had separated.

Further tests confirmed she had an infection with Bordetella pertussis, which causes whooping cough....Read more

 

Source web page:Independent.co.uk


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