Blood poisoning.

Infection of the blood, which has another name - sepsis, is a disease that is chronic or acute. This disease is expressed in very rapid reproduction in the blood of a viral, bacterial or fungal microflora. Infection of blood can occur and as a result of getting into the body of pathogenic bacteria from some source. In most cases, the infection spreads very quickly.

Infection of the blood: signs.

The disease is usually provoked by pathogens such as intestinal and tuberculosis bacilli, various cocci, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and others.

At the same time, hospitalization is mandatory. In such conditions, timely antibacterial treatment gives a positive result, expressed in a decrease in organism intoxication, gradual decrease in temperature.

The first signs of infection of the blood are expressed in severe chills and fever, there is a rash of papular or hemorrhagic nature. In the future, the symptoms of the disease may depend on the degree of intoxication of the body, manifested in a critical increase in body temperature. Very often symptoms are a significant increase in the liver and spleen, there is a strong sweating, which appears after fever and chills, lethargy and weakness, inactivity, upset of the stool.

Infection of the blood must be treated in a timely manner. Otherwise, due to numerous deviations and lesions of almost all systems and organs, a fatal outcome may occur . At a late stage, sepsis can manifest as a thrombosis that affects, in particular, the lower extremities.

Within a month from the onset of the disease in the urine appear blood protein and erythrocytes, clearly manifested tachycardia, as well as joint pain - arthralgia. These manifestations of blood poisoning, caused by disturbances in the immune system of a person, which develop against the background of improvement of the basic indicators of infection, must be distinguished from the symptoms of a directly septic anomaly of a bacterial nature.

The main clinical signs of bacterial contamination of blood can manifest only in the initial stage of the disease. These symptoms are found in an inflammatory process of a purulent nature in one of the internal organs. Similarly, endocarditis and myocarditis with a purulent character occur. These can be renal and pulmonary tissue prone to various purulent infections. The main areas of blood poisoning treatment are intensive therapy with antibacterial drugs and the elimination of intravascular disseminated blood clotting. Untimely carrying out resuscitation can cause gangrene of the extremities, hemorrhage to the adrenal glands, and other irreversible changes in internal organs.

For a more accurate diagnosis of a vein, blood is taken for biochemical analysis and coagulation tests. When conducting a study, the number of platelets and reticulocytes is compulsorily counted. After blood sampling with the help of the same needle, an antibiotic is injected into the vein, corresponding to the nature of the alleged infection, in the most feasible dose. In critical situations it is necessary to urgently conduct plasmapheresis. About 1.5 liters of plasma is removed from the body, which is replaced by 2/3 of fresh frozen plasma. In especially severe cases, the volume of fresh frozen plasma can be larger than the volume of the plasma that is removed.

In addition to plasmapheresis, "Heparin" is used, the daily dose of which for an adult is 20-24 thousand units. This drug is administered intravenously with a dropper either hourly, or even continuously.