Why do children get sepsis?

Longdu is a very serious viral disease. This disease usually occurs in the elderly. The probability of death is very high. Although many people lose confidence in life after contracting it, it is a disease that can be completely cured even with a high mortality rate. Therefore, as long as the patient actively cooperates with the doctor's therapist, he can recover. So why do children get sepsis?

1. Is sepsis in children easy to treat?

The mortality rate of sepsis is very high, especially in elderly patients with sepsis, where the mortality rate is about 30%-40%, and the mortality rate of septic shock is about 50% or more. Therefore, if it is a simple infection, it is easier to control the condition. However, the infection causes the body's inflammatory response to become uncontrolled and causes organ failure, making treatment more difficult. Through active treatment, some sepsis patients can be cured.

(1) Obtain biological evidence. Whenever possible, biological specimens should be collected for bacterial/fungal culture before using antibiotics. Specimens include blood, sputum, urine, wound secretions, etc. The culture results will help with targeted antibiotic treatment. However, not all biological specimen cultures of sepsis will have positive results.

(2) Rational use of antibiotics. Since it is impossible to obtain bacterial culture results quickly in the early stages, empirical antibiotic treatment should be given as soon as possible in the early stages of sepsis. The so-called empirical antibiotic treatment should be based on the characteristics of the bacterial epidemiology and the characteristics of the disease in the region, and one or more antibiotics should be selected in a targeted manner. The selected antibiotics should be effective against all possible pathogenic microorganisms (bacteria/fungi) and be able to reach sufficient therapeutic concentrations. At the same time, the efficacy should be evaluated according to the condition to ensure efficacy while preventing bacterial resistance. Once the bacterial culture results are obtained, targeted therapy should be used as soon as possible based on the drug sensitivity results and clinical situation, using effective narrow-spectrum antibiotics. Rational empirical antibiotic treatment and targeted therapy are important measures to avoid antibiotic abuse and the occurrence of antibiotic resistance.

(3) Eliminate the source of infection. While treating sepsis, the cause of the infection should be actively sought. If it involves surgical infection (such as suppurative cholangitis, abscess formation, intestinal obstruction, suppurative appendicitis, etc.), timely surgical intervention should be performed to remove the lesion or perform drainage; if it is a iatrogenic material infection (such as intravenous catheters, urinary catheters or implanted artificial devices, etc.), the material should be removed in time and microbial culture should be performed.