Ingrown hair left man in coma with 4% chance of survival

Doctors couldn't work out what was wrong with him

Steven Spinale, from Texas, contracted an infection after he tried to remove an ingrown hair in his grown, the Metro reports.

This led to him being diagnosed with blood poisoning, and he was admitted to hospital in late 2022.

Doctors were unable to figure out what was wrong with him, and after a month in hospital, during which time he underwent open heart surgery, Steven was placed in a medically induced coma to give his body a chance to heal.

His sister Michelle had been documenting his time in hospital in a series of videos on TikTok, and set up a GoFundMe to raise money for his treatment.

On the page, she wrote: "The doctors are doing everything they possibly can do for him and if anyone could pull through this it is him.

"Steven is so important to so many people and we need him to fight like he has never fought before. His wife has not left his side so both incomes are now gone."

She explained that the only thing doctors could establish about Steven's condition was that he "was bleeding internally from somewhere."

In a recent TikTok, she claimed doctors had told her Steven would "not come out of this alive" and that her brother "did not have brain activity."

During his time in hospital, Steven also contracted influenza A and double pneumonia in both of his lungs, along with acute respiratory distress syndrome.

After three weeks in a coma, Steven emerged with no brain damage and returned home.

In the following months, he continued his recovery.

With the help of loved ones, he's been learning how to walk again.

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