Difference Between Septic Shock And Epilepsy

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a) The similar symptoms of septic shock and epilepsy is that both shows low blood pressure and fatigue. Over fifteen times, Lia had epilepsy, so that doctors was assuming that she had epilepsy this time as well, but a bit worse. The doctors missed couple symptoms like the high temperature, diarrhea and very low platelet count. They did not pay attention to those signals because of the monumental scale of Lia’s seizures.
b) Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a devastating bacterium that favors immunosuppressed patients, caused Lia’s septic shock. Lia became immunosuppressed because of the medicine, Depakene, that the Western doctors prescribed.
c) Depakene tends to cause a drop in white blood cells that is needed for human body to fight infection. Thus,

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