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Sepsis

Sepsis · Sepse (otrava krve)

What it is

The immune response to infection turns on the body and organs start failing.

Symptoms & signs

  • Fever or low temperature
  • fast breathing
  • confusion
  • mottled skin
  • low urine output
  • extreme illness feeling
  • low blood pressure

🚩 Get help if…

  • call 112 / 911 now Confusion, slurred speech or very drowsy
  • call 112 / 911 now Breathing very fast or gasping
  • call 112 / 911 now Mottled, bluish or very pale skin, or a rash that does not fade
  • call 112 / 911 now No urine for a day, or shivering with a fever

Where it strikes

Medical treatment

  • Sepsis Six within one hour: oxygen, cultures, IV antibiotics, fluids, lactate, urine output
  • source control
  • vasopressors
  • ICU

Natural & lifestyle

  • Prevention: vaccination, wound care, prompt treatment of infections
  • know the red flags

Emerging & experimental

  • Biomarker-guided antibiotic duration
  • cytokine haemoadsorption
  • immunotherapy for immunoparalysis

Alternative, off-label & anecdotal

Approaches used outside the guidelines, with what their supporters report and what testing has found so far.

  • Vitamin C, thiamine and hydrocortisone (Marik protocol) — large trials found no survival benefit not confirmed in trials
  • Herbal antibiotics — no role; sepsis kills within hours without real antibiotics anecdotal / traditional

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