Blood poisoning, which has another name - sepsis, is a disease of a chronic or acute nature. This disease is expressed in a very rapid multiplication in the blood of viral, bacterial or fungal microflora. Blood poisoning can also occur as a result of the ingestion of pathogenic bacteria from some source. In most cases, the infection spreads very quickly.
Blood poisoning: signs.
The disease is usually provoked by pathogenic microbes such as E. coli 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 intoxication of the body, a gradual decrease in temperature.
The first signs of blood poisoning are expressed in severe chills and fever, a rash of a papular or hemorrhagic nature appears. Further symptoms of the disease may depend on the degree of intoxication of the body, manifested in a critical increase in body temperature. Very often the symptoms are a significant increase in the liver and spleen, there is severe sweating that occurs after fever and chills, lethargy and weakness, lack of exercise, and stool disorder.
Blood poisoning must be treated promptly. Otherwise, due to numerous deviations and lesions of almost all systems and organs, death can occur . In the late stage, sepsis can manifest itself as thrombosis, affecting, in particular, the lower extremities.
Within a month from the onset of the disease process, blood protein and red blood cells appear in the urine, tachycardia, as well as joint pain - arthralgia are clearly manifested. These manifestations of blood poisoning caused by disturbances in the human immune system, which develop against the background of an improvement in the main indicators of infection, must be distinguished with symptoms of a directly septic anomaly of a bacterial nature.
The main clinical signs of bacterial infection of the blood can appear only in the initial stage of the disease. These symptoms are found in the inflammatory process of a purulent nature in one of the internal organs. Endocarditis and myocarditis, having a purulent character, also occur in the same way. It can be renal and pulmonary tissues susceptible to various purulent infections. The main directions in the implementation of measures for the treatment of blood poisoning are intensive therapy with antibacterial drugs and the elimination of the process of intravascular disseminated blood coagulation. Untimely resuscitation can cause gangrene of the extremities, adrenal hemorrhage, and other irreversible changes in the internal organs.
To more accurately determine the diagnosis, blood is taken from a vein for biochemical analysis and coagulation testing. During the study, the number of platelets and reticulocytes is calculated without fail. After blood sampling using the same needle, an antibiotic corresponding to the nature of the alleged infection is injected into the vein at the most possible dose. In critical situations, it is urgent to carry out plasmapheresis. About 1.5 liters of plasma is removed from the body, which is replaced by 2/3 of freshly frozen plasma. In especially severe cases, the volume of freshly frozen plasma may be greater than the volume of the removed plasma.
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 generally continuously.