Infection of the blood, symptoms of an organism intoxication

An infectious disease of sepsis or blood infection occurs when a Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Streptococcus, Staphylococcus, Pneumococcus and Escherichia coli penetrate the human body. The primary cause of the purulent-inflammatory focus of sepsis may be stagnant processes of infected urine, purulent myocarditis, severe form of lung abscess, the presence of cutaneous furuncle or carbuncle, paraproctitis. The tissues of the pyogenic microorganism, as well as the products of its vital activity, when ingested into the blood of a person cause blood poisoning, the symptoms of which are due to the presence of a primary source of infection. The severity of the disease and the risks of HIV infection depend on the localization of the initial stage of the focus and the ways in which the infection spreads, as well as on the state of immunity of the patient.

Signs indicating the infection of blood, symptoms of intoxication of the body, manifestation of the disease

In the primary focus of the disease, sepsis manifests itself as signs of fever, progressive weight loss, increased heart rate, lower blood pressure, thrombosis and edema. The disease can occur with mass formation of abscesses on tissues and in the organs of the body. In the absence of improvement in a patient who has a blood infection, the causes of this condition can be hidden in the progression of signs of the disease and the increase in intoxication. In this case, the size of the bile excretory organs increases, there is a violation of the stool, weakness, lethargy, lack of mobility, there are irreversible violations in the functions of organs and systems.

Especially dangerous is the emergence of signs of sepsis in newborns, which provokes a purulent process that occurs in the umbilical cord tissue, so-called umbilical sepsis. If a newborn has a blood poisoning, the symptoms that characterize it are manifested by vomiting, diarrhea, and a categorical refusal of the baby from breastfeeding. Thus the child quickly loses weight, there is a dehydration; Loss of elasticity of the skin, which becomes dry and have an earthy color, is often accompanied by local suppuration in the navel, deep phlegmon and abscesses of varying degrees of localization.

Treatment of sepsis

The main methods of treatment are aimed at combating intoxication, supporting the body and increasing the degree of resistance to the disease. Treatment of the patient in the presence of wounds is aimed at timely opening of abscesses, removal of dead tissue, creating conditions for a constant outflow of purulent discharge, treatment of wounds with the use of antibiotics and antiseptics.

The use of intensive care, with the disease "blood poisoning," the symptoms of the first signs, indicating the adequacy of treatment, are manifested by a decrease in weakness and chills, improvement in the general condition of the patient, the appearance of appetite.

In this situation, one can not underestimate the subjective indicators of improvement, when in the absence of laboratory signs of improvement and a persistent elevated temperature, a misconception about the low degree of effectiveness of antibiotic therapy methods may be created, but it is the action of antibiotics (penicillin) that is shown to patients, in the presence of sepsis, Period on the road to recovery.

The treatment of this disease is complex and is carried out in the intensive care unit for patients with purulent infections, using active surgical methods to treat purulent foci that are available for surgical interventions, as well as methods of general intensive multicomponent therapy.