Re: Worried for next season. : Thu Oct 10, 2019 7:19 am
Shifty Cat wrote:
Horrible illness to get & recover from. He went to Pinderfields and it was that bad they thought he had meningitis because it has the same signs (I had it as a teenager and it nearly finished me off), they then discovered it was an infected abscess on his spine that eventually poisoned his blood stream , ouch.
FYI and FWIW It’s very difficult to spot, it’s also highly unpredictable. You can show early signs, then your own defences get on top and it goes only to regroup and come back in some cases.
It also works at different speeds on different people and being fit is not always an advantage.
Finally it’s a cover all term for blood poisoning rather than a specific bug. It can be almost any bacteria even very common ones if they overwhelm your bodies defences.
Antibiotics are very effective but need to be administered as soon as possible and in very large quantities.
Recovery depends totally on how far it got, apart from death worst case scenario is multi limb amputation!
It’s truly horrible and very common but luckily it gets caught in time most of the time. What makes it so frightening to me is that it can start from the tiniest of cuts making people believe it can’t be that bad when it is.
You probably know all this but some people don’t so I thought some clarity would help. I haven’t had it or know anyone who has touch wood, I just asked a friend of mine who’s a paramedic. HTH.
Clearly this is a very basic explanation and it’s a way more complex in reality but this is only a RL forum so please don’t shoot me down thanks.
