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Jane never thought she’d lose all four of her limbs (Picture: Kennedy News)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When Jane Haley took a course of antibiotics<\/a> for her strep throat in June, she quickly started feeling back to her normal self.<\/p>\n

The 41-year-old had no idea that, just two months later on August 24, she would be rushed to hospital<\/a> in an ambulance where doctors would diagnose her with Toxic Shock Syndrome<\/a> – a rare form of sepsis.<\/a><\/p>\n

Ultimately, doctors would have to amputate all four of her limbs to save her life from the tissue damage, and keep her from multi-organ failure.<\/p>\n

Pictures reveal the severe damage to her legs and arms from the Group A Streptococcus infection which spiralled out of control, as Jane thinks back to how her journey started.<\/p>\n

‘In June I took a full course of antibiotics for seven to 10 days and I was feeling better by then,’ Jane, an accountant, recalls.<\/p>\n

‘Towards the end of August I started to have pain in my jaw and cheek and then in the left side of my neck. I thought it was just my glands swelling up to take care of an infection or whatever was happening in my jaw.’<\/p>\n

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Jane’s hands turned black with tissue damage, and were amputated first (Picture: Kennedy News & Media)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But after calling a medical advice helpline and explaining her symptoms, Jane, from Grande Prairie, Alberta, was rushed to hospital in an ambulance.<\/p>\n

‘That was the last thing I remember,’ she says. ‘One minute I was fine and the next minute I wasn’t fine and I was rushed to ICU<\/a>.’<\/p>\n

Her blood pressure and heart rate dramatically dropped and she was placed into a medically induced coma, which allowed doctors to diagnose her with Group A Streptococcus, which had progressed into Toxic Shock Syndrome.<\/p>\n

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Group A strep is a common bacteria that lots of us carry in our throats and on our skin. It doesn’t always cause illness, but it is linked to infections like; strep throat; pneumonia; sinusitis; necrotising fasciitis; and toxic shock syndrome.<\/p>\n

You’ll only get infections like toxic shock syndrome and necrotising fasciitis if the bacteria enters your body and blood stream.<\/p>\n

The common symptoms include pain in the affected area, redness, and swelling. If the infection progresses or is a systemic infection, such as scarlet fever or toxic shock syndrome, you would develop fever, muscle aches, and flu-like symptoms.<\/p>\n

You develop toxic shock when the bacteria releases certain toxins into the body, and symptoms can come on quickly.<\/p>\n

Treatments can include:<\/h3>\n