Small wounds are often less dangerous. But it is with adults. As for children, when the immune system is not fully developed, the risk of sepsis exists.
Mom lost her baby forever because of a small wound causing blood infection
Scratches from rocks, injuries from impact ... all leave a risk for children. Adults, if not careful, will make children pay the price for this subjectivity.
Recently, social networks shared the story of a mother in Dong Anh, Hanoi, who lost her daughter forever after she stepped on a thorn.
Subjective when stepping on thorns
A tragic story in Dong Anh, Hanoi
According to this mother, her child - the baby was stomped on a thorn. But due to subjectivity, the baby's mother also did not clean the wound and vaccinated.
The next day, baby fever! Mother let the baby go to the doctor.
As a result, the baby had a sore throat and took medicine but the condition did not get better. Fever reduces fever and the baby plays, but he complains of pain in his leg.
Then the baby has a high fever, exhaustion, and refuses to eat.
The family took the baby to the emergency room. Treatment at Dong Anh District Hospital for a day, signs of illness are getting worse.
The baby was taken to Xanh Poly Hospital. Here, the baby was diagnosed with blood infection. The infection was evaluated from a tiny wound in the child's leg.
Not over!
The baby died of blood infection
At Xanh Poly Hospital, the baby's condition was worse. Babies with septic shock must be ventilated, open the endotracheal tube, but signs of septic shock cannot be controlled.
She moved to the National Hospital of Pediatrics in a coma. After 1 day of treatment here, the baby does not survive.
The baby's mother feels extremely regretful for being subjective with the child's tiny wound that made her lose her baby forever.
This is neither the first, nor the last…
The wound is small, the consequences are big
Don't underestimate injuries like this
Another mother, Nguyen Minh Tuyen, also shared it online. Her son died of a boil like a toothpick on his head.
Her child has boils. The doctor said that the baby had sore throat, giving antibiotics a day to drink without fever. She called and asked, the doctor said that the sore throat was so severe that she couldn't reduce the fever right away.
The next day, the baby was taken to the provincial hospital for examination, after taking blood for testing from the evening to the next day, the baby was infected, but it was unclear where the infection was and it was not dangerous.
However, Mrs. Tuyen's husband and wife asked the doctor to send them to the Central Children's Hospital to make sure. Here, the baby was tested again until 2:00 pm to be hospitalized. Immediately after admission, the doctor said to immediately transfer to the intensive care unit.
By 8:00 pm, the doctor announced that the baby had to be on dialysis and by midnight the baby had not passed away. From the time the child had a fever to death, only 3 days and the culprit from a tiny boil on the head.
Danger from small injuries
Blood infection is possible through minor abrasions
According to doctors, small scratches are sometimes invisible to the naked eye. Children are not in pain, but because their skin is thin, vulnerable, and susceptible to infection, they still create conditions for bacteria on the skin to penetrate.
Germs on the skin are present at all times. If not damaged, the staphylococcus living together does not cause disease. But when the skin is injured, it can get inside and make people sick.
When meeting a small open wound, through ingested pores, staphylococci on the skin will cause a deep infection, forming pimples like nail pimples. Many families often think it is acne caused by heat, but in fact it is acne caused by resistant bacteria.
The staph bacteria are resistant to antibiotics, so it's dangerous. It can cause systemic sepsis, septic shock and multi-organ failure in children. Without knowing and not timely treatment, the risk of death for children up to 90%. In the summer, when a child appears pimples, they should be examined by a doctor.
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