to post what I think is a good and informative Irish article about Sepsis

[Sullabylullaby]

I know we on Mumsnet are pretty informed about sepsis (blood poisoning), but I thought the article was informative in terms of the prevalence of it and how to potentially differentiate it from maybe coming down with something like a flu.

www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/warning-as-sepsis-can-kill-in-12-hours-466243.html

Thank you for posting this - very informative.

Sloppy article. Sepsis isn’t ‘blood poisoning’.

I agree with ChickenPaws. Sepsis is the bodies response to a serious infection. Septacemia is the infection itself.

Can I ask, for those in know, I had sepsis but one doctor later referred to it as septacaemia? Can you have both?

Ok, confused myself now. It's an infection that runs through the blood? I doubt a professor would get it wrong, unless the journalist did!

Sullaby I think the journalist got it wrong. Sepsis is an inflammatory response to an infection.

Sepsis is just a systemic response to infection. Perfectly possible to have sepsis without any growth on blood cultures.

It’s actually not always easy to distinguish between bacterial sepsis and influenza on presentation - requires cultures of common sites eg urine/blood/sputum and viral swabs. Both diseases can kill you.