What is sepsis?
Sepsis is the immune system of the body involved in the fight against infection. Sepsis occurs when it causes damage to the body's own tissues and organs. This can lead to organ failure and consequently loss of life.
The body secretes a variety of chemicals that activate the immune system into the bloodstream to fight bacterial infection. If the current infection is not controlled, the body's response to infection is out of control, changes that can damage multiple organ systems are triggered, and this is called sepsis. If it is not diagnosed and controlled early, it progresses to septic shock. Patients with septic shock will lose their blood pressure as a result of widespread inflammation.
How does sepsis occur?
Most infections can cause sepsis, including pneumonia, urinary tract infections, abdominal infections, skin or wound infections, or meningitis. Infection diseases such as influenza, malaria, dengue, yellow fever and ebola can all result in sepsis.
In normal people, ordinary infections cannot be converted to sepsis. The mechanism that triggers sepsis is the reactions that occur in the body rather than germs.
Sometimes these reactions exaggerate the body so much that it hurts more than the wound, and in the end, unexpected reactions and organ failures may develop, leading to lung failure, followed by signs of failure of the kidneys, digestive system, blood cells and brain.
The more organ failure develops one after the other, the greater the risk of death.
What are the symptoms?
Dizziness
Difficult conversation
Excessive tremor
Muscle pain
Fire
Severe shortness of breath
Inability to urinate all day long
Pale, mottled, discolored skin
Don't feel like you're gonna die
More than 80% of infections gain outside the hospital. Anyone can have sepsis, especially people who have weakened immune system are at risk. These are adults over 60 years of age, children under 1 year of age, people with chronic lung, liver, heart disease, people with diabetes or AIDS, or people without spleen.
How to Prevent Sepsis?
The easiest way to prevent it is to prevent infections. This can be done with Basic hygiene and vaccination, if the infection does not cause sepsis, it should be determined quickly and the source of the infection should be treated with antibiotics.
Scientific evidence clearly demonstrates the effectiveness of infection prevention. For example, improving hand hygiene in health care can reduce infection by up to 50%. The combination of cleaning and hygiene with water can reduce the total burden of disease worldwide by 10%. Vaccines protect 2 to 3 million people from infection-related deaths each year.
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