How does one avoid sepsis?
“How does one avoid sepsis?”
I don’t know if you are kidding or not.
Sepsis is an infection in the blood. The infection goes to every organ in your body and you die. Even in a hospital with antibiotics going through your body, you will be lucky to live and more likely to die than live.
If you get an infection anywhere on the outside of your body, treat it immediately. Have tubes of triple antibiotic ointment or cream to treat cuts/wounds. The point is to keep the infection where it is, on the outside and not inside your body.
If there is an infection inside your body and there are no antibiotics for you to take internally, you are in trouble as that infection is the kind to invade your blood stream much more so than an outside wound.
Example: My husband had double pneumonia, was in the hospital, and doctor said he thought he might have sepsis now and sent off a blood sample. He thought that because other organs began to not function well. I knew he would die if that was true, but the blood came back not infected.
Sepsis is the immune system’s response to a serious infection. A total collapse/major organ failure. Could be bacterial in origin, but also fungi, viruses, and parasites. In short, don’t get scratched while traversing rusty barbed wire fences, be very careful of what you drink, and most importantly, don’t get yourself shot. All incoming rounds have right of way.
Don’t pick your nose.
7 years ago my wrist swole up. Me and DR. thought it was gout. No outside sores, no obvious infected sites. A few days later, wrist still swollen, groin became so painful I could hardly walk. Finally a scan revealed internal infections, MRSA... Took two weeks from first wrist swelling to being rolled into operation room. Anesthesiologist said “Can’t do procedures due to low “something” and he might not recover from “entubation”.
Dr. said..”Moot point, if we don’t do surgery NOW!, he will be dead from sepsis by morning.”
Two 3 month courses of IV antibotics, replaced hip due to bone infection, still here.
Found out 30% of population would test positive for MRSA nose swab. I had picked my nose, it bled and got sore a few days before wrist swelled.
In a SHTF situation, dead after two weeks of nose pick.