Deadly, Recognize Four Early Sepsis Symptoms

Sepsis is a complication of an infection that can be life threatening. Sepsis occurs when chemicals that enter the bloodstream to fight infection actually trigger an inflammatory response throughout the body. This inflammation can lead to the destruction of many fatal organ systems.

Sepsis can be caused by various types of infections, ranging from bacterial, fungal to parasitic infections. The most common areas of infection that can cause sepsis are the lungs, urinary tract, stomach and pelvis.

Handling sepsis early is the key to successful treatment. Therefore, the initial symptoms of sepsis are very important to be known by ordinary people.

Unfortunately, many symptoms of sepsis are considered quite common and not typical. One of them is feeling unwell. This makes the symptoms of sepsis often considered not serious and neglected.

Even so, the NHS (National Health Service), which is a health care institution in the UK, has listed the initial symptoms of sepsis that can be watched out in older children and adults. These four initial symptoms are high body temperature or low body temperature, cold and chills, rapid heartbeat and rapid breathing.

Deadly Killer Diseases IPD For Toddlers

Although it has been given the appropriate antibiotics, the disease Invasive Pneumococcal Disease (IPD) or disease caused by the bacterium streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus), is still the number two killer in Indonesia after the diarrhea.

"IPD disease caused high mortality rates, by 15-20 percent. Tallest IPD cases occurred in children under 2 years old," said Kusnandi Rusmil, Chairman of the Coordination Unit of Work in the field of Growth IDAI seminar Prevent Dangerous Diseases: IPD and Diarrhea Rotavirus in Children, held in Bandung on Saturday (07/16/2011).