05/01/2020
L.R.L. ❤🎗❤
Sepsis is a bigger killer than heart attacks, lung cancer or breast cancer.
The blood infection is a fast killer too. A person can be a very healthy fit individual one day and be dead the next morning.
Sepsis does not discriminate. Everyone, including the youngest and fittest of us, is potentially susceptible,
There were more than 15,000 recorded cases of sepsis in Ireland in 2016, and 3,000 resulted in death. Six out of 10 hospital deaths are sepsis-related.
Sepsis can kill in 12 hours, and that is why it is so critical that everyone in the community is empowered with the information to ask: ‘could it be sepsis’? These four words could save your life.
The symptoms of sepsis mimic those of the flu — high temperature, rapid heart rate, rapid breathing, pain, pale or mottled skin, and generally feeling very sick.
The main difference between sepsis symptoms and flu is sepsis will come on very quickly whereas flu comes on over days.
“Within possibly six hours you are going to be feeling incredibly sick. If you think the symptoms have come on way too fast when you dial 999, ask could this be sepsis?
There is a 10% increase in mortality for every hour where treatment with antibiotics is delayed.
Every cut, scrape or break in the skin can cause infection. All wounds need to be cleaned quickly with clean water. If you have a wound that can’t close, then you most likely need stitches and you should get to a hospital.
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