Sepsis is a life-threatening illness caused by the body’s response to an infection when the immune system goes into overdrive in response to the infection. Our maximum huge expenditure of health budget goes in writing antibiotics, antivirals to prevent this infection or sepsis. Sepsis develops when the chemicals the immune system releases into the bloodstream to fight an infection. It can cause inflammation throughout the entire body instead.
Severe cases of sepsis can lead to septic shock, which is a medical emergency. The illness can be treated with antibiotics and intravenous fluids and resolves within days to weeks, however, prevention is definitely the best cure and a US-based scientist from Odisha has made headlines by discovering an inexpensive method of treatment to prevent sepsis. Odia doctor, who is working as a pediatrician in America, had been heading a…
