“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.
/johnny
A close friend of mine died from sepsis. He simply didn’t take care of himself, got sick, and still didn’t take care of himself. By the time his wife decided to ignore his wishes to not call an ambulance it was too late. He died on the way to the hospital.
Take care of yourself and treat ANY wound properly. Wash it and use the anti-biotic ointment. In field conditions the simplest wound can kill you if you don’t care for it.
I wasn’t kidding; thanks for the info!