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Is it possible that a 31-year-old gentleman in New York City who died late last year of complications from a stomach virus, which affected his heart, kidney, and liver, had an unusually severe version of the gastro that everyone gets from time to time? Or did he have an entirely different stomach virus than the one that causes garden-variety gastro?
Is it possible that a 31-year-old gentleman in New York City who died late last year of complications from a stomach virus, which affected his heart, kidney, and liver, had an unusually severe version of the gastro that everyone gets from time to time? Or did he have an entirely different stomach virus than the one that causes garden-variety gastro?
That question is impossible to answer without knowing what virus he had.
Or let's ask from a somewhat different angle: In otherwise healthy adults, can ordinary gastro (aka "stomach flu" or what not) lead to complications of the heart, kidney, and/or liver? If so, are such complications rare?
That link is not very helpful. Another says the exact cause of death is not known.
Viruses can infect the heart, kidneys, and liver. In order to know what happened to Mr. Polonsky more information is needed.
Obviously, since most people recover uneventfully from gastroenteritis, deaths from it are not common, especially in an otherwise healthy young person.
Bigger danger is an organ is damaged/infected, something like appendicitis......and that is what is causing the stomach problem.
Not medical-advice......but if I happen to eat something nasty or get some stomach-bug, and I am very sure that is what it is, I gurgle that pink-stuff, it is amazing how well it works.
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