Sepsis And The Immune System

Some people are the type of people who take precautions about everything. They are the type of people that if they start sneezing or coughing, they will run to the store and buy medicine to start taking right away. They are always looking around them to see who is sick and taking precautions to make sure they do not get sick as well. Certain people are all about their health. If something does not seem right or they start seeing a huge difference in their normal health routine, most people will go to the doctor. Then there are people who are the complete opposite. The people who do not like doctors or believe in medicines. They do not track their “normal health”, so most people will not notice a change in their bodies. If some people start …show more content…
It is just a part of life. One thing that anyone can get if they get sick is sepsis. “Sepsis is caused by overwhelming immune response to infection. Risk factors include baseline immunocompetence of the patient, presence of comorbid conditions, and patient age. Severe sepsis can cause damage to and failure of multiple organ systems.”(Drahnak, Dawn Marie.) Even though sepsis is mainly heard about being in the elderly because they have weaker immune systems, it can also be found in many other people. For example, babies - having the same weak immune system as the elderly - struggle with sepsis . The ones who struggle the most are the babies who are delivered early and are not fully developed. “Often, if they develop signs of an infection such as fever, infants must receive antibiotics and be admitted to the hospital. Sepsis in the very young is often more difficult to diagnose because the typical signs of sepsis (fever, change in behavior) may not be present or may be more difficult to ascertain” (EMedicineHealth). Any person who has an infection, or who has just come out of a surgery and has an open wound can become septic. “Hospitalized patients are at risk to develop sepsis from infections due to intravenous lines, catheters, surgical wounds, and/or bedsores” (EMedicineHealth). When someone becomes septic, the body immediately tries to fight …show more content…
This meaning that LCH patients have to undergo chemotherapy to try to treat this, which we all know can lead to more complications in the body weakening - especially if the patient's body already had a loss of white blood cells and the chemotherapy might end up killing more. Treating this disease can lead to many more problems (or outcomes) such as, “mortality of high-risk patients, disease recurrence, lack of robustly tested salvage strategies, and significant disease morbidity of both high- and low-risk patients remain challenges” (Texas Children's Cancer Center). There is more of a chance that patients who end up getting this disease will struggle more at getting rid of it. Sometimes, people do not get rid of this disease. They live with it for the rest of their lives because of how severe the infection was before the person went and got it treated. Some people who try to ignore the symptoms will live with the regret of their decision for the rest of their