The concerned friend took him to the nearest hospital, in Abergavenny, where blood tests revealed that Lindsay had developed life-threatening sepsis, caused by bacteria that entered his body via the thorn.
He was immediately rushed into the operating theatre for surgery to clean the infection in his hand and elbow. This was to flush and scrape out the elbow joint where the infection had set in. Debris was removed and doctors stitched up his the wounds. Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that occurs when your immune system overreacts to any kind of infection.
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Symptoms include slurred speech or confusion, a cough, extreme shivering, passing no urine during the day, mottled or discoloured skin and feeling extremely unwell. It can progress rapidly, causing a catastrophic drop in blood pressure and organ failure - every year sepsis claims the lives of 52,000 Britons, according to the UK Sepsis Trust. Gardening is a well known cause, says Dr Ron Daniels, executive director of the UK Sepsis Trust. He explains that scratches to the skin account for 10 per cent of all sepsis cases, and this can result from something as simple as ‘a gardener scratching themselves on a rose thorn’. #Snap creative kit spotlightcarman theverge skin# The infection might not be caused by the thorn itself, Dr Daniels says, but rather by the gardener coming into contact with soil containing bacteria such as E. coli or Listeria, which enter the bloodstream via the cut.ĭr Daniels says that although it’s easy to dismiss a minor gardening injury, ‘if you feel any of the symptoms of sepsis, call 999 - it is a medical emergency’. Luckily for Lindsay, after ten days on powerful intravenous antibiotics, he was discharged from hospital.
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