Posted on 02/20/2020 3:48:03 AM PST by COBOL2Java
“”””””””””She died of septicemia, blood poisoning.
Someone stuck a dirty needle into her? How else do you infect blood?”””””””””””””””””””””
My adult son has terminal brain cancer. He just spent the last five days in the hospital due to a blood infection. It is very serious stuff.
It is not easily detectable especially in someone who is quite young like the girl in this story.
If I had to deal with this incident again, I would definitely ask for a Vitamin C drip...even if the Drs didnt think it would work. And I would have the research to show them.
I have liposomal C that I take at the first sign of any sickness. Not all liposomal C is the same.
Someone here told me it wouldn’t do much good. I take it anyway. Just like Curcumin.
Been doing that for years and year ‘round since before the first article suggesting the need for appeared in New England Journal of Medicine. The medical community was very slow to take monitoring of D3 levels on because we get it from sunshine! This does not take into account winter or our modern lifestyle where most of us are not exposed to sustained sunlight long enough to boost our D3 levels enough.
At first I had to insist that my annual blood work test for D3 and still have to remind them to do it.
I don’t claim D3 will prevent all illness but, knock on wood, I am seldom sick for the last many years. Even colds don’t last long when I get them.
The response of the medical community to fasting as a means to treat Type II diabetes reminds me of the way they treated the studies on D3.
“With sepsis, the fight between the infection and the body’s immune response makes the body like a battleground,” says Dr. Derek Angus, a critical care physician at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. “In the case of severe sepsis, that fight results in vital organ dysfunction, which puts one’s life in peril.”
https://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2014/08/surviving-sepsis
I remember some cases like this coming out last year and maybe even the year before. Seemingly healthy kids dying from the flu. People turning “septic.” It’s concerning. Is it a matter of the public hearing of “rare” cases that we never used to before 24/7 news cycles and internet or are things taking a turn for the worse?
And you somehow think this comment is clever because?
January of last year my wife got the flu and it was quite mild, she passed it on to me and it was quite mild for about 4 days then it went wonky in one day and I ended up in the hospital and almost died of kidney failure. No idea why both of us felt like we had mild colds and then overnight mine went lethal.
I don’t understand the technicalities, but my doctor told me that the methods of building the flu vaccines now are not as good as they used to be and have negatively affected the efficacy of the vaccines.
Any infection anywhere in the body can spread to the blood stream. Pneumonia, UTI, abscess, Cholecystitis, etc etc etc etc.
Yes. It’s not new. You just didnt hear about them 20 years ago like you do today.
Plus more interest has turned to the cytokine storm aspect in the last few decades.
I am not sure why somebody’s thread just got pulled about Vitamin C. I can assure you it is not just some quack. Researchers are looking into it. Whether it really works it up for debate. Some ICUs have added to their protocol.
https://www.physiciansweekly.com/iv-vitamin-c-hydrocortisone-thiamine-for-sepsis/
Sorry to hear that about your son. He and your family will be in my prayers. Hang in there.
Other studies are still in progress around the world, including Egypt, Spain, South Korea, and Mexico. These studies are listed on the ClinicalTrials.gov website.
Poking a needle and injecting a foreign substance into the body always has risks, so should be a personal choice. While the odds are low, a person has a greater chance of dropping dead from a flu shot than winning the lotto.
I have heard... .so take with a grain of salt, that the reason some people seem to get the flu after the flu shot is that the flu shot lowers immune system initially overall. And then actually makes it easier to catch other strains going around. Which adds another layer of wreaking havoc on the immune system and makes you that much more vulnerable to secondary infections of all kinds.
Well this is a local story, so I can see how it would defintely make the local news.
I read where the FDA is fighting that hard.
Well that is a reasonable explanation.
Well only if the shot matched the strain she got.
Yeah. We estimate that this years vaccine was only about 30% effective.
They guessed poorly.
And the Flu is on the upswing again.
My twin daughters and I all caught it their senior year of high school during winter finals. We all had our flu shots.
We got tamiflu but we were still sick for days.
I got it a few years later too. Spent most of Christmas binge watching Downtown Abbey. It was the worst Christmas! My son came home for college sick and gave it to me. He got pneumonia from it and had to drop a PE class for spring semester his senior year and it postponed his graduation.
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