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Panorama - Sepsis

carina62

carina62

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Did anyone watch the Panorama episode this week about sepsis? Very scary and last year I thought I had got sepsis due to a UTI infection. I've googled a lot about it since but I would never have thought that you could get sepsis via a UTI as we diabetics are more prone to UTI's. Sepsis is very scary indeed :-(
 
Yes, I saw the programme and yes it is scary especially for older diabetics. Again it seems that clinicians need regular updates on their training. Mistakes like those highlighted in the piece should not be happening when the knowledge is there.
 
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Yes, I saw the programme and yes it is scary especially for older diabetics. Again it seems that clinicians need regular updates on their training. Mistakes like those highlighted in the piece should not be happening when the knowledge is there.
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I totally agree and I cannot fault my hospital because I went to the local Walk In Centre after a very bad experience of a bout of sickness and diohrea (shortly after a UTI infection), they did some bloods tests and told me my lactate levels were higher than normal and mentioned sepsis which really scared me so I had to be carted off to A&E - luckily after further tests and being put on a drip I was just severely dehydrated and didn't thankfully have sepsis in the end but I can't fault the speed the NHS staff worked regarding my situation.

I will now be a lot more aware of the symptoms and whenever I get another UTI. My daughter who is not diabetic is prone to UTI's so have warned her too.
 
As far as I am aware, people with Diabetes have a poorer immunological response to infection. Also, higher bg can inflame the urinary tract making infection slightly more likely.
 
I couldn't bring myself to watch it as my mum died if sepsis- but I am of the opinion that they didn't spot it soon enough and gave her an emgency operation albeit absolutely necessary I think if they had treated her for sepsis before the op she would have had a much better chance of surviving- the op was a total success and was straight forward- she just never came round and died 3 days after in intensive care. I have to say the treatment she did get in intensive are was amazing and they fought for her until they couldn't do anymore - just the hospital she was first admitted too never spotted she already had sepsis
 
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