Mom saves son's life after recognizing signs of sepsis
'When the doctor saw it, he commended me on recognizing it'
'When the doctor saw it, he commended me on recognizing it'
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In a Facebook post that's gone viral, Alexandra Ruddy, the mother of an eight-year-old boy in the U.K., shared the story about how she discovered her son had that he contracted through a wound on his arm.
"A week or so ago, the littlest fell over at the zoo," she wrote in the Facebook post. "He took quite a bashing, but once we got home, I cleaned him up." Ruddy also said she made sure to have her son continue taking care of the wound, even after the injury, by washing his hands 바카라 게임 웹사이트 even at a school-sponsored "farm" day that involved digging.
"The wounds didn바카라 게임 웹사이트t look infected- they바카라 게임 웹사이트d got bigger so I was concerned but they weren바카라 게임 웹사이트t gunky etc," she wrote. "Yesterday on our way to the beach he showed me his hand. I wasn바카라 게임 웹사이트t happy as I noticed red tracking down his vein. I then checked his elbow - the same." That red rash sparked her idea to bring her son to urgent care.
"When the doctor saw it, he commended me on [recognizing] it and getting down ASAP. This is blood poisoning/ sepsis. It isn바카라 게임 웹사이트t something you can 'leave' until Monday when the doctors are back in the office," she said.
, is the body's extreme response to infection and is a life-threatening condition in which the body actually injures its own tissues and organs. Basically, it's no joke. More than 1.5 million people get sepsis each year in the U.S. and at least 250,000 Americans die from sepsis annually, reports the .
If left untreated, sepsis can progress into septic shock, which 바카라 게임 웹사이트compromises the cardiovascular system and results in very low blood pressure and inadequate blood flow to vital organs,바카라 게임 웹사이트 says , assistant professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine, previously told Women's Health.
Luckily, Alexandra's son's sepsis was caught in time and he was immediately put on antibiotics. But now, she's sharing her story to make sure other moms know what sepsis looks like.
"If you spot this red line running from a wound along the vein get yourself/ your child seen straight away," she wrote on Facebook. "Hopefully my post might help someone the way my friend바카라 게임 웹사이트s post from 2 years ago helped me!"