“What is the treatment for sepsis?”
My nephew is 3 years old and has been admitted in the hospital they actually found sepsis in his blood. I always thought this infection to be a hospital acquired infection, but he hasn't been in the hospital to get it. Could he have gotten sepsis from something else? How is this disease contracted?
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Sepsis is a general term that means the patient has an infection that has entered the blood stream. But it is also used when a patient has any infection that makes him or her very sick, looking as if they have invasion of the blood stream when they may not. But generally means the patient is quite ill with infection in the blood or looking sick enough to have it. So the patient does not need to be in a hospital to have sepsis. It can come from the skin, the urine, the upper or lower airway or from the gastrointestinal track.
The sepsis is not from hospital and any infection in body can speared all over and cause sepsis.
Sepsis is a general term for infection with systemic symptoms. Bacterial infections that cause sepsis can be community acquired.
