[Gh007]

Originally Posted by ChristySD ↗

Actually, in many cases, sepsis can be misdiagnosed as quite a few other illnesses and/or signs and symptoms. It is broad based and not always caught early on. Physicians are hailed as heros when patients heal quickly, but made out to be the villian when they take a turn for the worst. To reply to another post and to clear something up, ALL MRSA is bad, not this strain or that strain.....MRSA is MRSA, it is all resistant to antibiotics. The acronym "MRSA" points out that it is penicillan-resistant staph. Just trying to spread the knowledge. To quote my usual sign-off, "hope this helps!!!"

No MRSA is good, but only one is deadly, the other one is communicable MRSA that can be caught anywhere and its just a lesion... looks like an infected zit, but under normal circumstances easily treated, absolute minimal threat to a person with a healthy immune system.

[King Herald]

Originally Posted by Gh007 ↗

Its also called blood poisoning, this video kind of seems misleading the way they act like its a plague.

It has been called blood poisoning since I was a kid, which is why I had never heard of 'sepsis' until I read it on this forum a few months ago. If it is such a massive problem why haven't they left it so people recognise what they are talking about.


Typical yanks, take an age old subject and re-name it, just to prove they are different.

[Seven Of Nine]

Originally Posted by GlassToTheArson ↗

Well this officially freaked me right the hell out

Really? I didn't mean to freak anyone out. Well, I kind of like freaking people out but not with serious stuff I'm wondering what, about it, freaked you out?

[Seven Of Nine]

Originally Posted by Gh007 ↗

And sepsis is also easily cured with any penicilin, amoxocylin or wide range full sprecrum anti-biotics... if its untreated its dangerous... but you know your really ill by the time its gonna kill you.
The only time it would be fatal and diagnosed is MAYBE is you got MRSA- the resistant strain of staff, and there's even 2 kinds of that only the rare one is dangerous.

Wow, I'm glad I posted this because you are way wrong on your facts. I mean, you don't need to know the facts but don't be stating things that aren't true about a topic as serious as this.

Sepsis in a nutshell:
Sepsis is complicated, even for Doctors to try to explain and understand but this is what I know..

"Sepsis is a toxic response to an infection. Your body is constantly fighting all kinds of things; bacteria, viruses, fungi (call them invaders). We all have a system in our body that tries to keep these invaders from becoming an infection. The problem is that our body can go haywire, and as a result, instead of protecting you your body actually tries to kill you. Our immune systems are mobilized into action like an army, when an infection is present, and white blood cells fire bullets at the invaders. That's fine when the bullets are targeting the invaders but the problem occurs when the bullets start flying everywhere and you get collateral damage, exactly like 'friendly fire'. This is a catastrophe.

Systemic Inflammation due to an infection = Sepsis

Sepsis + Organs failing = Severe Sepsis

Severe Sepsis + Low Blood Pressure = Septic Shock"

There is a window of approximately 6 hours to get help once Sepsis is present; by help I mean administration of fluids and antibiotics. For every hour that passes without, a person's mortality rate climbs by 8% per hour.

[Seven Of Nine]

Originally Posted by King Herald ↗

It has been called blood poisoning since I was a kid, which is why I had never heard of 'sepsis' until I read it on this forum a few months ago. If it is such a massive problem why haven't they left it so people recognise what they are talking about.


Typical yanks, take an age old subject and re-name it, just to prove they are different.

Um, it's not a Yank thing, at least not according to the World Health Organization. Here's a UK video for you ...if that's where you're from.
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You know, there was a time when cancer was called "mommy is sick" but with education and advancement in medical technology we learn that things aren't always what we thought they were. Sepsis and blood poisoning were, at one time, thought to be one in the same. This is why there's a push for re education on this topic, because far too often people get stuck in old school thought.

"Although blood poisoning is a common term for sepsis, it isn’t an accurate description of the disease and the two terms should not be used interchangeably. Sepsis is not an infection in of itself. Sepsis is the body's often deadly response to infection or injury. Sepsis kills and disables millions and requires early suspicion and rapid treatment for survival.

Worldwide, one-third of people who develop sepsis die. (What is the prognosis (outcome) with sepsis?) Many who do survive are left with organ dysfunction and/or amputations."

[Gh007]

Ill give you that I wasn't aware fungal and viral infections could set off sepsis... My sister refused to go to the doctor for a broken tailbone about 4 years ago, she was visibly ill [she didn't realize she broke her coccyx bone, she's partially paralyzed] her break turned into an abscess and she kept refusing to go to the doctor til it burst thru her skin... all over the bathroom floor. at which point she was within hours of death. But it was because of neglect, weeks of neglect, but she clearly had blood poisoning for days and days.

[Seven Of Nine]

Here you go, more information from a UK Doctor.

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[Seven Of Nine]

Originally Posted by Gh007 ↗

Ill give you that I wasn't aware fungal and viral infections could set off sepsis... My sister refused to go to the doctor for a broken tailbone about 4 years ago, she was visibly ill [she didn't realize she broke her coccyx bone, she's partially paralyzed] her break turned into an abscess and she kept refusing to go to the doctor til it burst thru her skin... all over the bathroom floor. at which point she was within hours of death. But it was because of neglect, weeks of neglect, but she clearly had blood poisoning for days and days.

It's not weeks of delay to Sepsis. A vast majority of the 18,000,000 people who die world wide every year are being treated for their initial infection. I was. Sepsis sets in like an army taking over a battlefield, it happens in a flash. From that moment of take over there is a window of approximately 6 hours. Sepsis is an equal opportunity killer, young, old, sick, healthy, wounds, surgeries, scrapes on the knee from a playground or a manicurists tool nicking a cuticle at a spa. It's scary shit.

[Seven Of Nine]

This is a slideshow I have put together. It is my Sepsis story. In three days, on January 4th, it will be one year since I was admitted to ICU and began fighting for my life against Sepsis.

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[HeadlessHorseman]

Scary