A Student Ate 5 Day Old Pasta For Lunch. This Is How His Liver Shut Down.

Mild forms of this case are relatively common in incidence, but not common in this severity. The story of Patient AJ is based on literature. References below.
Patient AJ portrayed by Marcus Ellison Jr
Production Assistant: Bradley Williams

Thumbnail derived from Cirrhosis of the Liver by Wellcome
Closed Ackee (Blighia sapida) Fruit on Tree By Jerome Walker
Acute Hepatic Necrosis Slide by David E. Kleiner, MD, PhD of National Cancer Institute
Cirrhosis Hepatis by Alfred Kast of Wellcome
Cirrhosis With Fatty Degeneration of the Liver by Wellcome
Cirrhosis of the Liver (Trichrome Stain) by Ed Uthman

References:

These cases are patients who I, or my colleagues have seen. They are de-identified and many instances have been presented in more depth in an academic setting. These videos are not individual medical advice and are for general educational purposes only. I do not give medical advice over the internet, see your own physician in person for that.

[chubbyemu]

👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️🚑Happy Medical Monday! 👨‍⚕️👩‍⚕️🚑
Quick note: in my mitochondrial diagram, it looks like Acetyl Co-A initiates gluconeogenesis but it doesn't. When Acetyl Co-A is present in large amounts, Pyruvate Carboxylase acts on pyruvate to generate oxaloacetate. The diagram shown is a heavily abbreviated one, and I should have put "PC" on that arrow from acetyl co-a to oxaloacetate and another from pyruvate to oxaloacetate. i'll be more clear next time. if you're a student studying, you know/learn/understand a much more in-depth version and should go off the one in the books.

[qBeYcarpet]

Damn why didn't the cameraman help him

[RaviofromsALinkBetweenWorlds]

College student: doesn’t do drugs or drink alcohol

The whole medical staff: :0

[Ravii-mrwz]

When food doesn’t taste well believe your intuition and throw it away.

[jaycycling]

I feel very bad for my poor man AJ. He's just living a life of surviving debts and as you mentioned "autopsy" wew that made me feel so sorry for him.

[pschiptunes]

What I learned:
Don’t eat 5 day old pasta.
Don’t drink a whole bottle of stomach medicine.
Emia means presence in blood.

[alphabetsoup]

Imagine being this guy’s roommate and accidentally putting that pasta in the fridge. That dude must be torn apart by this.

[neurotransmissions]

brb, gonna go throw out everything in my fridge real quick

[banannarama]

I hope the roommate is doing okay, I can’t imagine the guilt I would feel for accidentally causing someone’s death like this.

[swedishfish]

I liked how he smelled it, gaged, and then ate the WHOLE THING

[VeenanNorvius]

I wonder how his roommate feels. He unknowingly accidentally sent him to his death

[Wolfdragon]

I remember reading about this right after it happened. Poor kid. As someone who suffers stomach problems regularly, i can't imagine the pain he felt during those last days. Rest in peace dude, I hope his loved ones are doing well.

[anonymyus]

Now everytime I go eat leftovers I hear his voice narrating my future

[spiritedawayvalley]

“When in doubt, throw it out” is what my dad always says.

[BigBrotherMateyka]

When in doubt, throw it out.

Food poisoning is no joke.

[CalebCuzner]

I was once told to drink a whole bottle of something (don't remember what it was) for constipation. The constipation almost immediately became diarrhea. I'm glad I didn't die.

[maggielandrey]

When clickbait isn't clickbait!

Thank you for making these. :)

[hahanamegobrrr]

Me : eats
My liver : "I have decided that I want to die"

[cookiepanda]

Who drinks a WHOLE BOTTLE of stomach medicine and expects to be Seriously.

[feralmagick]

It wasn't until I started learning about mycology that it really dawned on my just how important the food safety classes and knowledge I've learned are. Worked in resteraunts alot and always took it dire-ly serious, but learning about how fast bacteria and mycelium grows in a petri dish and just how absolutely sterile you MUST be to have a clean plate and No contamination growing is INSANE. Leaving food out is absolutely no joke.