when the intestine die how long befor the body be comes septic,sepsis, how long after the blood stop flowing to the intestines do it take the body to become septic.how long can the intestines live with out the blood flow befor it dies. and how long after the intestines dies does it take before the body dies,and can a person live with this? You've asked a myriad of questions which are not easy to answer.
Firstly, if you don't get medical intervention, all of these could kill you very fast. How many days, it is hard to say, but without any intervention at all, you could surely be gone in a few days.
With that said, it is not common for the whole entire intestine (bowel) to die at once. More commonly, only a section of it dies at a time. There will also be warning signs too. You would probably feel some pain down there at the first signs of bowel ischemia (insufficient blood flow). Ischemia can occur when there is a narrowing of the blood vessel or partial blockage that limits blood flow to a tissue. If this is prolonged, and depending on the severity of the blockage, your bowel tissue can die. Again, we are talking about partial blockage.
If there is a COMPLETE stoppage of blood flow for say a few minutes to any living tissue, it would probably die. Usually a complete stoppage of blood flow only occurs if a large blood vessel becomes occluded (e.g. by a clot) or is completely torn or sheared off because of trauma (and so blood just spills out like an open water hose). Again, a complete stoppage of blood flow is not too likely to occur in the bowels.
Sepsis should not be confused with infection. Sepsis is when the body undergoes detrimental changes (fever, chills, hypotension, malaise, etc.) because of a toxin or infection. Usually the infection would have to be very severe or widespread for you to have sepsis. Sepsis is an indication that the infection is a little further along and if untreated, you'll die very rapidly, probably within a matter of hours. In reality, antibiotics and other supportive measures (intravenous fluids, respirators, etc.) can effectively combat sepsis and keep you alive for a long time.
Keep in mind that bacteria are everywhere, and your bowels have a plethora of them. Once the bowel dies, then the bacteria that's already there will be unchecked and it could spread rapidly without antibiotics. Then you would rapidly develop sepsis.
To address your last two questions, if your intestines die, your body can die rapidly, again, if untreated. Nowadays, you can get all your nutrition directly into your veins via TPN's and so on. Some people can live almost normal lives on TPN. So you can definitely live with these conditions. Whether or not it is a comfortable lifestyle is the issue. |
