Beware Trivialising "Minor" Illness

[Canary42]

It was "only flu", but it took her legs away. How awful for the poor girl.

https://uk.yahoo.com/style/primary-school-teacher-loses-legs-054224326.html

Perhaps this tale will make those with a cavalier attitude to Covid reconsider their laxity.

[pastafreak]

But...it wasn't flu!
It was sepsis, an entirely different...bacterial... sickness. I think many think it's flu because of initial symptoms, but it's not covid and as far as I know...not contagious or transferable. Someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

[Peter Pedant]

beware reading AB and believing every word
( or any word as the old ducks at the Fish and Flu might say)

A dedicated primary school teacher went to bed with flu-like symptoms and ended up losing both of her legs to sepsis.

sepsis is bacterial - this is the flesh eating bacterium.
continue ABers with your cavalier attitude to Covid

BUT - amputee coalition say - limb loss is recorded in Covid
https://www.amputee-coalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/COVID-19-Disproportionately-Affects-Limb-Loss-and-Limb-Difference-Community-.pdf

[Peter Pedant]

Pasta - psst - how true and how un-mimsy
dont think this thread will last long

[naomi24]

That's scaremongering, canary.

[Canary42]

Try looking more closely before rushing into irrelevant petty criticism - why do you think I put only flu within quotation marks ?

[naomi24]

Canary, You're giving the impression that Covid is somehow relevant here. It isn't - and that's scaremongering.

[Old_Geezer]

Life has risks. Some common, some rare, some trivial, some serious. One needs to weigh things up and make a decision for any particular situation. It's often in that grey area where different folk legitimately choose different actions.

[Peter Pedant]

I put only flu within quotation marks ?
far too subtle for AB

and yes I have given in my opinion a ref that says that amputation HAS been a problem since covid. you can show that by counting amputations before covid and then during/after
in my opinion

The pathological basis - in my opinion is the DIC that was seen early in covid ( clotting within the blood vessels as they radiographed!) - In DIC your limbs fall off like nobody's business
in my opinion

[Zacs-Master]

'why do you think I put only flu within quotation marks ?'

To make some irrelevant point about another thread, would be my guess.

[gness]

Would she still have developed sepsis which was a result of pneumonia brought on by flu had she not caught flu?

Yes, we are all able to catch flu/colds/covid but for the most vulnerable it can be life changing or fatal.

Those people are responsible for their own safety but the cavalier attitude of some who don't want their lives affected by having to have a little bit of care for others is sickening.

[choux]

Canary, thank you. I read the link and found the video on sepsis informative. Sepsis has been around for quite some time but I wonder how many people check out the symptoms. Educating people is important, and an early diagnosis is often crucial in serious illnesses.

[Peter Pedant]

" To make some irrelevant point about another thread, would be my guess." (a)
erm isnt statement (a) - an irrelevant point about another thread,

you might at least tell us which one ( in my opinion)

I have sympathy for the junior doctors in cas - which of the many flooz, will end up without legs?
when it occurs will some old Prof come out of his coffin and say - never having been to A+E for 30y - in my opinion this young doctor is so bad you should send him to prison
in my opinion

[MissTerious2]

Canary, That makes me so grateful to my GP who saved my life by his swift action in November. I still am suffering and moaning about Post Sepsis, but I'm alive and in one piece. And I only had a mild case of ecoli which triggered Sepsis.

Flu often triggers Sepsis Pasta. Sepsis can be triggered by any virus or bacterial infection. A lot of covid patients actually died from Sepsis, not Covid.

[Sqad]

All disease processes start with minor or seemingly insignificant symptoms and all doctors at some time in their professional lives have been "caught out" I certainly have on many occasions.

You, as a doctor has to take ALL minor symptoms seriously or take the more practical approach of " take Ibuprofen and monitor the situation."

Luck plays a large part in the practice of Medicine both for the doctor and patient.

[New Judge]

//...but the cavalier attitude of some who don't want their lives affected by having to have a little bit of care for others is sickening.//

What "little care for others" do you suggest is currently lacking, then, gness? The only way to prevent the transmission of infectious respiratory diseases is to isolate every human being from every other human being. Clearly neither possible, practical nor desirable. But anything less runs the risk of transmission. So what measures would you like to see taken, now that SARS-Cov-19 has become endemic worldwide, that would provide "a little bit of care for others"?

[MissTerious2]

I think the thing to do is to all try our best to protect others from catching our bugs by keeping our distance as much as possible, even with a common cold. Which most kind people do.

[MissTerious2]

I agree with you gness.

[youngmafbog]

//but the cavalier attitude of some who don't want their lives affected by having to have a little bit of care for others is sickening.//

More self righteous rubbish.

[fitdarren]

^ Agree.

[anneasquith]

It does us all no harm to remember not everyone successfully recovers from ‘ minor health incidents’ .
If you think it’s scaremongering, fine ignore it.
If you wish to be more aware of these sort of issues read it, bank it .