Blood poisoning

Introduction: Blood poisoning

Description of Blood poisoning

Blood poisoning (medical condition): A systemic inflammatory response to an infection....more »

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Septicemia:
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Blood poisoning: invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection.
Source: WordNet 2.1

Blood poisoning: Related Topics

These medical condition or symptom topics may be relevant to medical information for Blood poisoning:

• Blood (1783 causes)
• Blood symptoms (2297 causes)
• Blood disease
• Blood disorder
• Poisoning
• Septicemia
• Pyemia

Blood poisoning as a Disease

Blood poisoning: Another name for Septicemia (or close medical condition association).
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Blood poisoning: Related Diseases

Blood poisoning: Blood poisoning is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:

• Bacterial diseases
• Blood conditions
• Conditions involving a pathogen

Causes of Blood poisoning

Some of the causes of Blood poisoning are included in the list below:

• Wound infection
• Surgical infection
• Tooth abscess
• Gall bladder infection
• Appendicitis

See full list of 7 causes of Blood poisoning (Septicemia)

Symptoms of Blood poisoning (Septicemia)

Some of the symptoms of Blood poisoning incude:

• High fever
• Chills
• Shivering
• Flushing
• Sweating

See full list of 17 symptoms of Blood poisoning (Septicemia)

Treatments for Blood poisoning (Septicemia)

Treatments for Blood poisoning (Septicemia) include:

• Hospitalization
• Antibiotics - often in large doses
• Intravenous antibiotics
• Broad-spectrum antibiotics
• Specific antibiotics - one the causative agent has been identified.

See full list of 11 treatments for Blood poisoning

Treatment of Blood poisoning: For more treatment information about Blood poisoning, see treatment of Septicemia (Blood poisoning)

Blood poisoning: Related Disease Topics

These medical disease topics may be related to Blood poisoning:

• urosepsis
• septic shock
• bacteremia
• symptomatic bacteremia
• septicemia
• leukocytosis
• pseudosepsis
• bacteruria

Terms associated with Blood poisoning:

Terms Similar to Blood poisoning:

• septicemia
• septicaemia

Source - WordNet 2.1

More specific terms for Blood poisoning:

• puerperal fever
• childbed fever
• pyemia
• pyaemia
• toxemia
• toxaemia
• fowl cholera
• shipping fever
• shipping pneumonia

Source - WordNet 2.1

Broader terms for Blood poisoning

• sepsis
• blood disease
• blood disorder

Source - WordNet 2.1

For a description of Blood poisoning, see:

• blood toxicology
• septicemia

Source: CRISP

Hierarchical classifications of Blood poisoning

The following list attempts to classify Blood poisoning into categories where each line is subset of the next.

WordNet 2.1

• sepsis
• infection
• health problem,ill health,unhealthiness
• pathological state
• condition,status
• state

Source: WordNet 2.1

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