Gordon Hook

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Spotting Sepsis in Children

by admin on 24 April, 2017

While canvassing last week I met a resident who is leading a local campaign to make people more aware of the symptoms of Sepsis in children.
She was understandably motivated to do so as she had lost a child to the killer illness. I can only imagine the agony that causes a mother. No mum should see her child die.
Sepsis, also known as blood poisoning, is the reaction to an infection in which the body attacks its own organs and tissues. Sepsis affects more than 25,000 children a year in the UK.
The symptoms are many and varied and the NHS in conjunction with the Sepsis Trust has produced a very helpful and informative leaflet listing all of them.
They include raised temperature, more than 37.5 C for five days or more. Shivering and shaking. Nostrils changing size with each breath and breathing that’s noisy or sounds”crackly”. A cough that sounds like a seal barking. Unusually pale skin with dry mouth lips and / or tongue. Poor appetite.
The list goes on and on. For more information contact your surgery, NHS 111 or dial 999 according to the level of your concern.
The resident I mentioned earlier is operating in local schools this week with large quantities of the information leaflet going out to parents via their child. If you have a child at a local primary school, please look out for the leaflet and learn more or go to www.sepsistrust.org

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