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Can septicemia and gangrene be linked together? |
cause 1 is blood poisoning and the other is dead cell tissue? All right the first two answers are basic understanding and well good. Now, lets break it down. If a patient presents with a cut, minor lets say, but left untreated and becomes infected. As the infected cut gets more colonizing bacteria, in some instances if left untreated the bacteria can spread to the blood stream. If the bacteria over grows in the blood stream the patient can then become septic. High fevers, low b/p, tachycardia etc. Now back to our cut. If the bacteria that led to our nasty infection causes some disruption in the blood flow that provides oxygen and nutrient to the once healthy tissue, the tissue will begin to show signs of distress. As the oxygen levels deplete, the tissue will slowly die. It will develop necrotic, dead tissue and gangrene will be the result. If untreated or untreatable or unresponsive to treatment, the gangrene can spread and lead to death of surrounding tissue. Look at diabetics who have poor healing abilities. That is why they tell them to check their feet for cuts and scrape. If bacteria invades, it can lead to gangrene. It can start with a toe and end with a whole leg needing to be amputated. gangrene is an infection which results in necrotic or dead tissue...so obviously gangrene can cause septicemia. Well... Clostridium perfringes causes gas gangrene, not only does the tissue die, bubbly welts form. |
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It can be but if you are all healthy with a healthy immune system it probably won't spread. Prophyactic antibiotics should be given to close contacts if pneumococcus, meningococcus, and haem... Septicemia is the term for a medical condition where bacteria and their toxins are spread throughout the bloodstream. This is referred to by some as "blood poisoning". Acinetobacter... Good question! Technically, "bacter(a)emia" refers to bacteria within the blood stream. This would be the case whenever you grow an organism from blood culture. "Septic(a)emia... It would be nice if blood cultures, or for that matter any other test, were that reliable. As it is, blood cultures are more often than not negative in people with sepsis. The best one can hope for... Yes, in short. Septicemia can be deadly. Strep, Staph and Listeria are just a few bacteria than can result in septicemia. HOWEVER, what you describe is not likely to cause septicemia. For one th... The best way of avoiding any re-occurence is by taking something that protects against bacterial infections and is non-toxic. Hospitals are plagued by bacterial infections, including MRSA and s... They usually do a C&S (culture and sensitivity). That could take anywhere from 24 to 72 hours. The blood has to start growing something and then they isolate it to see what it is. They can do o... ... |
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