does sepsis have permanent damage to the heart?
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septicemia u mean???? the hospital should of given u antobiotics for that... septicemia is a poisoning of the blood, it can damage the body..... the question i want to know is, why was a dirty catheter used on urself... either it was left in too long or it was not sterile... the problem with the second one is that all catheters are disposeable as far as i know....\nHope this helps\nGod bless.\n\nsomeone above me has just answered the question better than i could lol..... she is right, if treated immediatly with antibiotics then damage will be minimal.... but the question still stands... why was a dirty catheter used....
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Fluid around your heart  can be serious> You should see a doctor about this. MY hubby gets it and says it realy hurts........
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IT HAPPENS SOMETIMES..\n\nA HEART SPECIALIST CAN TREAT A FEVER ILLNESS OCCASIONALLY...IS N'T IT.?
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If you suspect you have conjunctivitis, please do not fool around with it too long - like any other infection if allowed to develop unchecked it can do serious damage, it is possible that your eyes could be permanently affected.  The first time I got it I was on a road trip, thought my eyes were just irritated by the wind blowing my hair constantly into them but after 2 days my mother in law took me to the hospital because it was so bad, the doctor told me that I had run a real risk of losing my eyesight permanently if I had not come in to have it treated.  The treatment is antibiotic drops and/or cream (I had to use both), available only by prescription.
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The coronary arteries surround the heart to  supply the heart muscle with the fresh blood nourishment it needs to do its work of pumping blood throughout the rest of the body. Just like other organs, the heart needs a constant supply of oxygenated blood to feed itself. Coronary Artery Disease is an occlusion (obstruction) of the coronary (heart) arteries resulting from atherosclerosis (arteriosclerosis). When the body goes into more strenuous activity, the heart has to work harder to supply the body's demands for fresh, oxygen-rich blood. \n\n\nAn ischemic heart reacts by giving off a sensation of pain. We call this pain angina, or, more technically, angina pectoris. When the blockage of an artery is complete, for example, when an occluded artery is blocked by a thrombus (blood clot), the result is a heart attack. The heart tissue supplied by that coronary artery begins to die, and some of the heart muscle may be permanently damaged, or, in very severe cases, may result in death of the patient.\n\nOn a personal note - My father had a triple heart by-pass last year as he had 3 blocked ones, he has been told that he can and should now lead a normal life and that his heart will not be the reason he dies as its beating now as though he was 20 years younger.
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Just a small addition to the answer above: permanent brain damage occurs minutes after the heart stops, but  a  person becomes unconscious long before that (in the matter of seconds).
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Yes, if permanent damage from heart attack or other disease has not occured.  Arteries can be unblocked or rerouted; cholesterol and blood pressure can be lowered; heart failure can be managed.
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It could be either a urinary tract infection, or bladder infection.  You should really go to a doctor and get an antibiotic cause if you don't you might end up with a kidney infection and that could lead to permanent kidney damage.
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Well, if you are awake enough to ask this question, you surely do not have it, as the above posts suggest ;). But seriously, the above answers are essentially correct.  Once bacteria enter the blood they release toxins and a virtual war between them and the immune system ensues.  As the result of this war, blood pressure drops and organs may fail.  Septicemia can thus be deadly, but many people survive it.  The key is, as someone already mentioned here, to treat it early and aggressively in the intensive care unit.   Wish you best of luck...
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Any resistence you can provide will decrease the damage.  Your muscles tear and heal naturally and fast.  Your other organs react by scabbing over.  It is known that the worst thing the body does to itself is become inflamed.\n\nYeah - don't get stabbed, okay?
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It depends where the focus is,\nof  course the neonate will be hospitalized, and will get an infusion, most of the time a neonatal sepsis will come from a pyelonefritis or an E. Coli sepsis, so you will have to maintain hydration and give IV antibiotics (vb amoxi-clav), and then you need several bloodcontrols, to check your CRP, if it diminished, but i dont think these are new updates
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There is always a risk of sepsis after a surgical procedure.  But this one carries little risk.  Since the surgey takes place in a aspetic environment, infection would happen during recovery.  This would only happen if your stiches come apart before healing has finished.  But you should be given antibiotics after a surgical procedure like that anyway.
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It's probably more annoying than life-threatening.  Sometimes a compressed vertrebral disk or spinal nerve can do this.  You have not described cardiac involvement.  Please don't ask for an online diagnosis and ignore any that you are given.  I suggest you see your health care provider for evaluation.
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The heart IS a muscle, but a heart attack isn't a cramp like you would get in say a leg muscle. \n A heart attack, also called a myocardial infarction, refers to the death of a certain segment of the heart muscle (myocardium).  It's usually the result of a complete blockage in one of the main coronary arteries or a branch which supplies oxygentated blood to the heart muscle.  The main cause of myocardial infarction is atherosclerosis (the build up of plaque on the inside of the blood vessels due to fat substances, cholesterol, calcium and other substances)  in the coronary arteries which results in impaired contractility of the heart muscle within seconds, and is initially restricted to the affected segment.\n\nThe myocardial ischemia or infarction begins in the endocardium (the inner lining of the heart) and spreads to the epicardium (the outer lining of the heart). Irreversible heart damage will occur if the blockage is complete for at least 15-20 minutes. Irreversible damage occurs maximally in the area at risk, and when the occlusion is maintained for 4-6 hours. Most of the damage occurs in the first 2-3 hours.  Restoration of flow within the first 4-5 hours is associated with salvage of the heart muscle, but the salvage is greater if flow is restored in the first 1-2 hours.\n\nA major determinant of death and illness is the size of the infarct. Increasing the oxygen supply to the involved site of blockage by coronary reperfusion can be done through use of certain medications and angioplasty, stents or artherectomy.\n\nAddendum: \n(Impaired contractility means a muscle is unable to contract the way it should or can't contract at all.)\n\nCramps:\nA muscle cramp is an involuntary, painful CONTRACTION of the muscles which produce a hard, bulging muscle. Muscle twitching, also called fasciculation is the result of spontaneous local muscle contractions that are involuntary. The muscle cramp usually only affects the individual muscle groups connected to a particular motor neuron.  Some common causes of cramps are:\n\nMuscle fatigue\nHeavy exercise \nDehydration \nPregnancy \nHeat Cramps\n\nThere may be some temporary loss of circulation to the muscle group that is cramped because of muscle contraction, but there is NO death of tissue due to a clot or embolus.  There are no clots or emboli involved in a cramp therefore they aren't the same as an infarction (as explained in the answer below).     :-)
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Infective endocarditis\nAs the valves of the heart do not actually receive any blood supply of their own, which may be surprising given their location, defense mechanisms (such as white blood cells) cannot enter. So if an organism (such as bacteria) establish hold on the valves, the body cannot get rid of them.\n\nNormally, blood flows smoothly through these valves. If they have been damaged (for instance in rheumatic fever) bacteria have a chance to take hold.\n\n \nBartonella henselae bacilli in cardiac valve of a patient with blood culture-negative endocarditis. The bacilli appear as black granulations.[edit]\nClassification\nTraditionally, infective endocarditis has been clinically divided into acute and subacute (between acute and chronic) endocarditis. This classifies both the tempo of progression and severity of disease. Thus subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE) is often due to streptococci of low virulence and mild to moderate illness which progresses slowly over weeks and months, while acute bacterial endocarditis (ABE) is a fulminant illness over days to weeks, and is more likely due to Staphylococcus aureus which has much greater virulence, or disease-producing capacity.\n\nThis terminology is now discouraged. The terms short incubation (meaning less than about six weeks), and long incubation (greater than about six weeks) are preferred despite the lack of advantage in meaning.\n\nInfective endocarditis may also be classified as culture-positive or culture-negative. Culture-negative endocarditis is due to micro-organisms that require a longer period of time to be identified in the laboratory. Such organisms are said to be fastidious because they have demanding growth requirements. Some pathogens responsible for culture-negative endocarditis include Aspergillus species, Brucella species, Coxiella burnettii, Chlamydia species, and HACEK bacteria.\n\nFinally, the distinction between native-valve endocarditis and prosthetic-valve endocarditis is clinically important.\n\n[edit]\nAetiology and pathogenesis\nAs previously mentioned, altered blood flow around the valves is a risk factor in obtaining endocarditis. The valves may be damaged congenitally, from surgery, by auto-immune mechanisms, or simply as a consequence of old age. The damaged part of a heart valve becomes covered with a blood clot, a condition known as non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis (NBTE).\n\nIn a healthy individual, a bacteraemia (where bacteria get into the blood stream through a minor cut or wound) would normally be cleared quickly with no adverse consequences. If a heart valve is damaged and covered with a piece of a blood clot, the valve provides a place for the bacteria to attach themselves and an infection can be established.\n\nThe bacteraemia is often caused by minor dental procedures, such as a tooth removal. It is important that a dentist is told of any heart problems before commencing.\n\nAnother group of causes result from a high number of bacteria getting into the bloodstream. Colorectal cancer, serious urinary tract infections and IV drug use, can all introduce large numbers of bacteria. With a large number of bacteria, even a normal heart valve may be infected. A more virulent organism (such as Staphylococcus aureus) is usually responsible for infecting a normal valve.\n\nIntravenous drug users tend to get their right heart valves infected because the veins that are injected enter the right side of the heart. The injured valve is most commonly affected when there is a pre-existing disease. (In rheumatic heart disease this is the aortic and the mitral valves, on the left side of the heart.)\n\n[edit]\nClinical and pathological features\nFever (often spiking) \nContinuous presence of micro-organisms in the bloodstream determined by serial collection of blood cultures \nVegetations on valves on echocardiography \nSeptic emboli, causing circulatory problems (stroke, gangrene of fingers) \nChronic renal failure \nOsler's nodes (painf
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yes, it can seriously damage your circulatory system
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no they dont ..  the septum devides the heart into two major parts