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Cellulitis and Sepsis

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God I am glad when I had the 1st bout (tje bad one) I had no idea just dangerous it was.

Both lower legs were just weeping sores from knee to ankle - horrible
 
Owen said:
From a clinical point of view, keep an eye on your temperature, if it rises above 38, then off to hospital. Also if you start breathing more rapidly ecetera
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I have just taken my temperature and it is 99.2. I have not a hot drink or anything like that. My normal temperature is in the 37's and I consider I have a slight temperature when it is 38 lol. However my breathing is fine.
 
Lilian said:
I have just taken my temperature and it is 99.2. I have not a hot drink or anything like that. My normal temperature is in the 37's and I consider I have a slight temperature when it is 38 lol. However my breathing is fine.
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Paracetamol should help manage your temperature, its when you get a combination of temp change, high bpm, and breathing you should start taking things very seriously.
 
This has been very useful to read. I know someone at the moment who has got cellulitis, it has come back and is now back on antibiotics (not sure if she is hospital or not but she was the first time and she is not a diabetic). My sepsis 'scare' last Saturday has led me to find out more about it and feel I am a lot more knowledgeable than I was and I cannot believe how this is not emphasised enough - is it to try and not scaremonger the public? I honestly don't know but now I am more aware of the signs and symptoms to look out for and have educated my daughter as I have 2 young grandsons. I am going to do a 3 day first aid course next year through work and am quite looking forward to it and get the knowledge. I was surprised to learn that sepsis is not normally written on death certificates although it would probably have been that that killed a patient ie if they had Pneumonia for example which triggered off sepsis then they would write the cause of death as pneumonia not sepsis. What else can we do to protect ourselves other than know the signs/symptoms for sepsis?
 
I had cellulitis and was in hospital 3 weeks on IV (that's when I was diagnosed diabetic) (second bout in one year), then on anti biotics tablets for another 4/5 weeks. Also had a fever. I went to A&E I felt so bad (takes so long to see GP), before it even started showing on my legs.
I'm sorry your's was so bad Hazel.
 
Thanks Ralph - I too would have been hospitalised had I not been my Dad's carer.
At it's worst I was on 3 oral antibiotics, totalling 4,500 mg daily. My bloods were stupidly high. The district nurse who can came twice daily daily told me to concentrate on getting rid of cellulitis, then my bloods would take care themselves.

Horrible, horrible time
 
I had cellulitis as a result of mosquito bites, not something I would have expected but the puncture wounds allowed staphylococcus and streptococcus that live on the skin to create havoc inside my legs. I was on antibiotics for several months and during this time changed GPs. The new one didn't help me by saying that the first one should have got me admitted to hospital for IV antibiotics, oral antibiotics in my case wasn't acting fast enough and my legs are very badly scarred as a result, with very very almost gossamer thick skin which easily scuffs and become a wound. Shame doctors don't all sing from the same song book. Better stop, I'm getting depressed about the NHS more and more.
 
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