Tag: sepsis
Lucinda, 41, was due to have a kidney stone removed – got sepsis
Updated 00.37 | Published 00.13 Lucinda, 41, was to have surgery to remove kidney stones and was sedated. When she woke up, she had lost her legs – and would…
Diana, 21, contracted sepsis – lost arms and legs
full screen 21-year-old Diana Melin sought treatment for fever and body aches – but was sent home with the advice to take Alvedon. A day later she was in a…
Diana suffered from sepsis – forced to amputation
Diana began to feel unwell on a Friday evening in March last year and went to the emergency department with a high fever. She was sent home with painkillers. The…
18-year-old Viktor lost his arms and legs in after sepsis
In January 2022, Viktor Sanell Alriksson suffered from sepsis, aged 16.When he woke up in hospital 11 weeks later, doctors had amputated both legs and arms. Now he talks about…
If you have these symptoms, be careful! It costs millions of lives, seconds save lives
1 person dies every 2.8 seconds worldwide due to sepsis. As a result of a severe infection developing in any part of the body, the immune system reacts and damage…
Sepsis: the deadly epidemic as common as the cancer we don’t talk about
Swedish researchers are raising the alarm over sepsis, a “largely” underdiagnosed disease as common as cancer and as deadly as heart attack. In the JAMA Network Open of August 29,…
Agnes, 1, died of sepsis – the mother warns other parents
“A little girl with infinite strength” is written on the candle that burns at Agnes’ memorial place in the Wallin family’s home. Next to the candle is the stuffed monkey…
The end of unhygiene is bad! His tattoo started to rot in an instant.
A 20-year-old woman named Süreyya Han shared her tattoo on her arm that reads ‘ALONE’ on her TikTok account. Sureyya, who had tattoos on her body before, went to a…
The career of the young football player who went to the doctor thinking he had the flu is over! Both legs were amputated…
Lewi Devey, a 21-year-old amateur football player living in England, applied to the doctor, thinking that his symptoms were flu. Devey, who went to the doctor on November 7 due…
Septicemia (sepsis): symptom, what is it, can it be cured?
Sepsis is an infection caused by the presence of bacteria (even fungi such as staphylococcus or viruses) in the blood. Can we cure it? What causes? Symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, chances…