Is death from sepsis common in kidney transplant patients on immunosuppressants for 6 months?

My 14 year old daughter died from sepsis and it wasn't detected when she was at the dr. three days before

sepsis is a tricky one, it will make you discover it,...and by the time you do, it is too late.

You could always have her medical records sent for a review or second opinion. Sepsis in organ transplantation can be common just because of the massive doses of immunosupressants that they are taking to prevent rejection.

Sepsis (as you probably know) is the leakage of the bodily fluids into surrounding tissues, causing massive pain and infections, resulting in fatal fever and other complications.

It can happen at any time with transplant patients and my heart goes out to you. There is a risk for life with transplant, and sepsis can happen at any second.

I'm so sorry for your loss. Losing a child is more than any parent should ever have to feel. We spend our lives becoming better men and women so that we may be better parents, only to have something happen that's beyond our control. I suggest a grief support group through church.

It helped me.

Sepsis/septicemia is possible after any surgery it is commonly called Blood Poisoning. With the immunosuppressant therapy one loses the ability to fight off weak infections and it becomes more possible for a person to become septic, that is why most people after an organ transplant along with immunosuppressants are also put on powerful antibiotic regiments to compensate for the loss of the body's natural defense. If she was not on antibiotics s/p transplant then there is something radically wrong there. Systemic infection, in an immunosuppressed patients, develop rapidly and kill quickly, so yes, she could have gotten a clean bill of health 3 days before and then became septic, sometimes viruses, bacterium, and other disease causing organisms can take a while before they show themselves and when they do it is too late. That is why, people s/p surgery are told that with the slightest hint of illness, fever, lethargy, are to go right to the emergency department.