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Bacterial shock

Bacterial infections are dangerous because they can become generalized, that is, they can spread through the bloodstream to all tissues and affect the body almost completely. This condition is called sepsis or septic infection. These infections may become the reason bacterial shock or septic shock - a life-threatening condition. Septic shock can develop with bacterial infections of various origins, but most often this dangerous condition is caused by such types of bacteria as Escherichia coli, aerobacter Klebsiella, Proteus, Pseudomonas pyosyanea, Salmonella and others.

Bacterial shock, as a rule, is the result of extra-hospital or late abortions, infected postpartum conditions, gynecological operations, urological operations, operations in the gastrointestinal tract and other surgical interventions, and can also be the result of rupture of various tissues as a result of local foci of suppuration (abscesses), burst cysts, a burst appendix.

The primary source of infection may be in one place, and through the bloodstream the bacterial infection spreads very quickly to various organs, forming other foci of suppuration, which in turn form more foci of suppuration, and so on. In this way, almost the entire body is seeded with bacteria.

Bacterial shock is a serious condition accompanied by a sharp deterioration in health. Signs of bacterial shock are high temperature; chills followed by sweating; rapid pulse. Breathing becomes rapid and shallow. A person becomes lethargic, apathetic, and sleepy. The skin takes on a yellowish tint, and urine output decreases. Bacterial shock can lead to kidney failure.

Bacterial shock requires qualified emergency medical care, and its treatment is based on antibiotic therapy, after laboratory detection of the infectious agent (compilation of an antibiogram) that caused the sepsis condition. Broad-spectrum antibiotics are urgently prescribed.

At the first symptoms of deterioration of health after undergoing surgical interventions or in the presence of deep and extensive wounds, or in case of other suspicious phenomena that change the state of health, you should immediately contact a medical institution or call an ambulance. At home, it is not possible to improve the state of health at the time of development of bacterial shock.