How long can you live with sepsis, sepsis has these symptoms
Generally speaking, sepsis is caused by bacteria. The initial symptoms are not very serious, but in the later stage, the harm is not small, and it may cause damage to multiple organs of the patient. At that stage, the patient will definitely suffer a lot, and even his life may be threatened. Therefore, many patients worry that sepsis may greatly reduce their life expectancy.
Sepsis is indeed a terrible disease, so many people worry that their lives will be greatly endangered if they suffer from this disease.
So how long can you live with sepsis?
There is no absolute answer to the question of how long you can live with sepsis. Although sepsis is terrible, if you are frightened by the disease and worry about it all day, it will be extremely unfavorable for the treatment of the disease, and the patient may be threatened by the disease and eventually die without being cured.
But if the patient faces the disease with an optimistic attitude, it has a positive impact on the treatment. With reasonable treatment, the condition will be well controlled, and the patient's life will basically not be affected, and he can live a normal life like other people.
Since sepsis is so scary, we must understand some of its possible symptoms so that we can detect its existence and treat it early.
- Symptoms of infection and poisoning
Generally, patients with sepsis may feel a little bit cold at the beginning, but after a while they will be a little bit afraid of heat, and the whole person looks sluggish. In addition, the complexion of patients is often not very good, and some even look a little blue-gray, as if they have a serious disease. If you feel the heartbeat with your hands, you can also clearly feel that the patient's heartbeat is fast and breathing is relatively fast.
- Skin lesions
In addition to the haggard face of the patient, the skin of other parts will generally appear abnormal. Most of the patients will have petechiae, ecchymosis or urticaria-like rash on the skin. Not only that, but patients often experience pain in multiple places, which may worsen with activity.
- Abnormal gastrointestinal tract
Patients with sepsis often have abnormal performance inside the body. Most patients will have symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain, and many patients often do not care about these symptoms at the beginning. As the disease progresses, symptoms such as hematemesis and blood in the stool may appear later.
- Severe symptoms
In addition to the above phenomena, patients with sepsis may also have some severe symptoms, such as heart failure, confusion, lethargy, coma, etc. Once these symptoms appear, the harm is already relatively large and must be actively treated.
Although sepsis is a terrible disease, don't worry too much, and don't mistakenly think that having sepsis will definitely endanger your life. In the face of sepsis, we must be optimistic and brave, and of course active treatment is the most important. For other healthy people, they must pay close attention to their own health. If they have symptoms similar to sepsis, they must go to check in time.