What are the symptoms of sepsis?

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Septicemia is an acute systemic infection caused by pathogenic bacteria or opportunistic bacteria invading the blood circulation and growing and reproducing in the blood, resulting in the production of toxins. For patients with sepsis, a variety of bacteria with pathogenicity or conditional pathogenicity will become the pathogen of sepsis. What are the symptoms of sepsis? Now let me tell you something.

What are the symptoms of sepsis?

Due to the variety and quantity of pathogenic bacteria and the different resistance in different stages of human body, the clinical symptoms of sepsis will be different. Sepsis patients will have some symptoms of infection and poisoning, first chills, and then high fever, serious cases can lead to confusion, heart rate accelerated. There will also be some skin damage symptoms, skin damage will appear in the limbs, trunk skin and oral mucosa.

Sepsis will also have some gastrointestinal symptoms, accompanied by vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, hematochezia and so on, serious cases will appear hematemesis phenomenon. Some septic patients will also have joint swelling and pain and other symptoms. Among them, children with infantile sepsis will have mild or moderate hepatosplenomegaly, and may also be complicated with toxic hepatitis.

Sepsis can cause some other complications in the course of its illness. For example, Staphylococcus aureus can cause septic shock, kidney and liver abscess; Gram negative bacilli sepsis can lead to heart failure, liver failure, renal failure, respiratory distress and DIC.

matters needing attention

At ordinary times, we should pay attention to the prevention of sepsis, control the source of infection, and use some hormone drugs reasonably. For some susceptible people and some people with weak resistance, we must take protective measures to avoid infection. Due to the different pathogenic bacteria in patients with sepsis, it is necessary to treat symptomatically, discover and treat as soon as possible, so as not to cause other complications.