Woman 診断するd with ありふれた UTI...now she's had to have all 4 四肢s amputated because of little-known 感染 複雑化
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A mother-of-two has 勧めるd people to learn the 警告 調印するs of sepsis?after losing four of her 四肢s に引き続いて a ありふれた 感染.?
Kim Smith, 63, from Milton Keynes, was left with blackened 脚s, feet and 手渡すs that needed to be amputated after a life-脅すing ordeal left her in a 昏睡 for months.?
In 2018, Mrs Smith was on holiday in Alicante, Spain?with her husband Steve when she developed a urinary tract 感染?(UTI).
A UTI is a ありふれた 感染 where bacteria infiltrates parts of the 団体／死体 like the bladder, 腎臓s and urethra, 原因（となる）ing a 燃やすing sensation when urinating.?
Familiar with the ありふれた symptoms of a UTI―含むing needing to urinate more often and lower 復部の 苦痛―Mrs Smith went to the doctors who 定める／命ずるd her?抗生物質s.?
But the pharmacist did not have her prescription 利用できる for collection that day, so the couple returned to their hotel, where Mrs Smith's 条件 quickly 悪化するd.?
' I woke up at 4am and I thought I was going to die,' she said in a TikTok ビデオ that has so far 獲得するd over 793,000 見解（をとる）s.
'I had 厳しい breathlessness, slurred speech and 混乱. I was really really 冷淡な. I had a fever and I was shivering like mad,' she 追加するd.
Kim's symptoms 含むd 混乱, fever and 冷気／寒がらせるs, and 苦痛 and she was induced in a 昏睡 after 存在 診断するd with sepsis
Her husband 急ぐd her to the hospital where she was 診断するd with 厳しい sepsis and put into a medically induced 昏睡 on November 29th.
Sepsis is a life-脅すing reaction to an 感染, which occurs when the 団体／死体's 免疫の system overreacts to an 感染―like a UTI―and attacks its own tissue and 組織／臓器s.??
By the next day, her 手渡すs had already turned purple.????
'Spain had told my daughters that I had 黒人／ボイコット digits, that's fingers and toes', Mrs Smith 解任するd.
'My 武器 were 黒人／ボイコット up to [my 肘s]'.
結局, after six weeks on life support, Mrs Smith was f lown 支援する to the UK, to Milton Keynes University Hospital, 経由で 空気／公表する 救急車.?
There, after three weeks 支援する in the UK, Mrs Smith was 徐々に brought out from her 昏睡.?
'When I woke up, I could 現実に see that my 手渡すs and 脚s were 黒人／ボイコット, so I knew that they would have to be amputated', she remembers.?
Sepsis symptoms can closely 似ている the flu, so look out for a very high or 最低気温, sweating, extreme 苦痛, clammy 肌, dizziness, nausea, high heart 率, slurred speech, and 混乱
In hospital in Bedford, Kim underwent a quadruple amputation. She said she wasn't surprised when she woke up and saw her 四肢s had turned 黒人／ボイコット
Mrs Smith then underwent life-changing 外科 to amputate her 手渡すs and 脚s above the 膝.?
Once she 回復するd from the quadruple amputation, the grandmother spent 12 weeks in physical rehabilitation, where she 回復するd her strength and learnt to live without her 四肢s.?
Now, Mrs Smith wants to raise 認識／意識性 for the little-known 危険 associated with ありふれた UTIs.?
'I want to tell you, if you need to go pee, go pee. Don't 持つ／拘留する it―that could 原因（となる） you to get an 感染 and that could develop into sepsis,' she said.?
'The symptoms are 厳しい breathlessness, slurred speech and 混乱-I had that-I didn't pass much urine that day and I had a fever but I was really 冷淡な.'?
'If you get anything like that, if you feel 異常に unwell and you know something is not 権利, please please please 支持する for yourself,' Mrs Smith 勧めるd her 信奉者s.?
'Tell [doctors] something is not 権利 and ask them to 実験（する） you for sepsis.?
'Ask for a second opinion if you have to.?Do not leave if you feel something is wrong.'
She was taken out of her 昏睡 after a few weeks but was told she would have to have all her 四肢s amputated
UTIs 影響する／感情 the urinary tract, which 含むs the bladder, the urethra and the 腎臓s.?
によれば the NHS, ありふれた symptoms 含む 苦痛 or a 燃やすing sensation when peeing, needing to pass urine more often than usual, and cloudy looking urine??which can also be a 調印する of dehydration.?
Some people may also experience lower 復部の or 支援する 苦痛, 同様に as a 最高気温, 冷気／寒がらせるs or and a really 最低気温 below 36C.?
These more 厳しい symptoms could 示す a 腎臓 感染, which can be serious if left untreated, developing into life-脅すing sepsis.?
Up to 1.7million people in the UK を煩う 頻発する UTIs―classed as three or more 感染s a year.?
Around half of all women will experience a UTI in their life time.?
によれば the World Health Organisation (世界保健機構), sepsis kills 11 million people globally each year, while in the UK the 感染 （人命などを）奪う，主張するs around 48,000 lives.?
People who 苦しむ septic shock can develop small 血 clots, which 削減（する）-off life-giving oxygen flow to the extremities.?
The tissue then begins to die, and the 肌 turns 黒人／ボイコット. However, if there is still enough healthy tissue, doctors may try to first 除去する the dead tissue―known as debriding.?
If this 治療 doesn't work, amputation is the next step.??
UTIs are one of the most ありふれた 原因（となる）s of sepsis, dubbed the 'silent 殺し屋' because its symptoms can overlap with other 条件s like the flu.?
However, as Mrs Smith 警告するs, knowing the symptoms of sepsis could save your life.
Tell-tale 調印するs of sepsis in adults 含む appearing 混乱させるd, slurred speech or not making sense, blue, grey or blotchy 肌 and difficulty breathing.?
によれば the NHS, a 無分別な that doesn't fade when your roll a glass over it could be a tell-tale 調印する of the 条件, 同様に as having a pale and blotchy 外見 that is 冷淡な and clammy to the touch.?
Sepsis 影響する／感情d 肌 may also develop pinprick bruises or large purple areas that can also turn blue, a 調印する the 団体／死体 is not getting enough oxygen.?
Producing いっそう少なく urine than usual, for example not urinating for an entire day, is another 可能性のある 調印する of serious sepsis.?
This is in part because a 減少（する） in 血 圧力 原因（となる）d by sepsis, 同様に as an 増加するd 危険 of 血 clots, can 減ずる 血 供給（する） to 組織／臓器s like the 腎臓s, which produce urine, 衝撃ing their 機能（する）／行事.
As the 腎臓s can be some of the first 組織／臓器s to start showing 調印するs of 減ずるd 機能（する）／行事 予定 to sepsis, 減ずるd urine 生産／産物 is considered a 可能性のある 調印する of the 条件.?
The NHS advises anyone who experiences these symptoms to call 999 or go to A&E すぐに.??
