Post by seniorcitizen007 on Sept 13, 2023 22:12:02 GMT
According to the UK Sepsis Trust there were 150,000 cases of Sepsis in the UK in 2014. In 2023 they said that "Sepsis affects 245,000 people every year".
In 2018 my Health Authority's Administration received praise from "on High" within the NHS for their proactive response to Sepsis. It was stated that other Health Authorities should follow their example.
Recently the British Medical Journal published a warning about the over-diagnosing of Sepsis leading to the over-prescribing of Broad-spectrum antibiotics.
So what is going on?
In my hospital if one develops a mild fever one is likely to be told that one has Sepsis.
(A doctor actually said to me: "All people with a temperature above 37 have Sepsis". When I disagreed with him he grinned and said: "Well ... pre-Sepsis").
In 1994 my wife was on a ward of mainly elderly people. Everybody there was given Ciprofloxacin, a broad spectrum antibiotic, three times a day ... "to protect them from hospital bugs". I telephoned Bayer and told them about this. The person I spoke to ... their "European doctor" ... responded with: "We are very concerned about the use of our medications to engineer the deaths of inconvenient patients."
Whilst a percentage of people are no doubt "saved" by prompt treatment for Sepsis I wonder how many people, especially elderly people and people with serious conditions, are dying because of this "proactive response to Sepsis"? Dying from the treatment they are receiving?
In China it was found that when people with Sepsis were given the culinary herb Saffron Yellow in addition to the standard treatment their survival rate was significantly higher than those just given drugs ... and the condition of the survivors was noticeably better than those who were only given drugs.
There is concern about the widespread "preventative" prescribing of antibiotics to Covid patients:
"Although less than 10% of hospitalised and community-based patients with COVID-19 worldwide are diagnosed with a secondary bacterial infection requiring antibiotics, an estimated 75% of patients receive antibiotic prescriptions".
In 2018 my Health Authority's Administration received praise from "on High" within the NHS for their proactive response to Sepsis. It was stated that other Health Authorities should follow their example.
Recently the British Medical Journal published a warning about the over-diagnosing of Sepsis leading to the over-prescribing of Broad-spectrum antibiotics.
So what is going on?
In my hospital if one develops a mild fever one is likely to be told that one has Sepsis.
(A doctor actually said to me: "All people with a temperature above 37 have Sepsis". When I disagreed with him he grinned and said: "Well ... pre-Sepsis").
In 1994 my wife was on a ward of mainly elderly people. Everybody there was given Ciprofloxacin, a broad spectrum antibiotic, three times a day ... "to protect them from hospital bugs". I telephoned Bayer and told them about this. The person I spoke to ... their "European doctor" ... responded with: "We are very concerned about the use of our medications to engineer the deaths of inconvenient patients."
Whilst a percentage of people are no doubt "saved" by prompt treatment for Sepsis I wonder how many people, especially elderly people and people with serious conditions, are dying because of this "proactive response to Sepsis"? Dying from the treatment they are receiving?
In China it was found that when people with Sepsis were given the culinary herb Saffron Yellow in addition to the standard treatment their survival rate was significantly higher than those just given drugs ... and the condition of the survivors was noticeably better than those who were only given drugs.
There is concern about the widespread "preventative" prescribing of antibiotics to Covid patients:
"Although less than 10% of hospitalised and community-based patients with COVID-19 worldwide are diagnosed with a secondary bacterial infection requiring antibiotics, an estimated 75% of patients receive antibiotic prescriptions".
