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After contracting an incredibly rare infectious breast disease<\/a>, an Ohio woman was shocked to self-discover that it came from contaminated water.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It was me that found the test to result the bacteria, and it was me leading the way to find out how I contracted it,” Tami Burdick, of Cincinnati, told Fox News Digital. Burdick wrote a memoir<\/a> of her health journey of self-diagnosis called, “Diagnosis Detective: Curing Granulomatous Mastitis.”<\/p>\n

In January 2017, Burdick went to Connecticut for a business trip, but roughly two months upon her return home, she began experiencing a host of symptoms<\/a>. Burdick shared that she began experiencing breast pain and after a self-evaluation she discovered a hard lump.<\/p>\n

Assuming an impending cancer diagnosis, Burdick promptly called her primary care physician, who ordered a mammogram and ultrasound of the infected area. After Burdick’s biopsy, she was released that it was not a cancer diagnosis instead it was a rare infection.<\/p>\n

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Burdick was diagnosed with granulomatous mastitis (GM) a “rare chronic inflammatory breast condition” that is incredibly painful.<\/p>\n

“I was most certainly relieved it wasn\u2019t cancer, though I could have never imagined how this breast disease would soon reveal its ugly head like the monster it was,” Burdick said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite Burdick’s diagnosis, she still did not know what had caused her condition, nor a path forward for treatment and recovery<\/a>. Eventually, Burdick came across a Facebook support group, where she connected with other women from all across the world who also have GM.<\/p>\n

Seven months from her initial diagnosis, Burdick uncovered a gene sequencing pathology test that a woman in her support group recommended.<\/p>\n

“It ultimately helped save my life,” Burdick said.<\/p>\n

After requesting that she could do the test, Burdick finally figured out where the cause for her painful breast infection<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“The reason why I called my book \u2018Diagnosis Detective\u2019 was because it was me that figured everything out before the doctor, Burdick told Fox News Digital. “I found a test that would finally result the infection after seven months. I knew something was causing it.”<\/p>\n

“And finally, after seven months, we had an answer,” Burdick said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The pathology test\u00a0revealed Corynebacterium kroppenstedtii as the root cause of Burdick’s disease.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Corynebacterium kroppenstedtii is an environmental-originated bacteria<\/a> associated mostly with water, sewage and soil.<\/p>\n

Burdick next order of business was finding out how she contracted the bacteria.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She had her water tested in her home for the Corynebacterium kroppenstedtii, but the results were negative. Burdick said that she had not been in a pool, hot tub, or any other bodies of water for “quite some time.”<\/p>\n

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Research about the bacteria told Burdick that it needed a natural point of entry, like a pore or duct opening.<\/p>\n

Eventually, Burdick and her medical team came to believe that she contracted the nasty bacteria from her hotel shower during her 2017 business trip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Years after Burdick’s diagnosis with GM, she is still advocating for this rare infectious disease that affects 2.4 women per 100,000.<\/p>\n

“I have two scars on my breast. One is towards the top and the other one is underneath,” Burdick said. “I see them every single day, and I call them my warrior wounds.”<\/p>\n

She said that her scars are a reminder to keep sharing her story with the world and to keep advocating for others facing GM.<\/p>\n

“I even wrote in my book that God gives his battles to his strongest soldiers and that God knew that there needed to be a voice for this disease,” Burdick said. “At the end of the day, it’s all about helping people.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/ohio-woman-details-health-journey-after-contracting-rare-breast-infectious-disease-connecticut-shower <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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