How to check bacteremia?

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Speaking of blood diseases, I believe we all have a certain understanding. Bacteremia is a serious blood disease that endangers the health of infants and young children, once the disease must be found in time. Want to diagnose the disease should be checked, according to the symptoms of bacteremia to judge, and then the corresponding examination is the most formal way of bacteremia examination. Now let's share with you.

How to check bacteremia?

First, the measures of disease examination mainly include two aspects, one is to make a preliminary judgment according to the symptoms of patients, the other is to carry out professional examination, bacteremia is no exception. The first is the symptoms of bacteremia, because bacteremia is bacterial infection, so patients will show symptoms of systemic infection. Including high fever, headache, vomiting, palpitations and dyspnea and other symptoms, patients will also have multiple abscesses and organ damage and other symptoms.

Second: according to the initial symptoms of patients suffering from bacteremia, should also carry out professional examination. Because the bacteria will enter the blood circulation from the damaged part of the patient, so the blood examination of the patient can find the bacteria. Aerobic culture and anaerobic culture are common methods of blood culture for bacteremia. Blood culture should be carried out twice every hour. The results of culture can be used as a preliminary examination of bacteremia.

Third: of course, Gram staining can also be performed on body fluids and pus obtained from infected sites and abscesses of patients with bacteremia. But for people who have been treated with antibiotics before, the effect of Gram staining is relatively poor. No matter what kind of treatment, after the final diagnosis of bacteremia, we hope to carry out professional treatment for patients in time to eliminate the impact of the disease.

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Bacteremia can be detected by symptoms and blood culture. Timely diagnosis is of great help for patients to receive treatment as soon as possible. The harm of bacteremia is obvious, so it must be treated as soon as possible. Antibiotic treatment is the basic treatment of bacteremia. According to the specific bacteria detected, appropriate antibiotics were selected for treatment.