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As the biggest organ of your body, yourthe skin can tell you a lot about your health. But since a whole range of eruptions more or less Watch the same thing in the unsecutive eye, it can be difficult to distinguish betweenSymptoms of the skin which are serious and those that are superficial. That's why doctors sound the alarm on a symptom of skin, they warn can be a sign of a major medical emergency. When this type of eruption appears, they say that the weather is gas before this condition endangers the life of a progress from the point of no return. Continue reading to learn what it takes for.

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According to medical experts, having a red line or streak on your skin that grows in length is a serious symptom that can indicate sepsis.

"Sepsis is thethe most serious form of an infection, "Frank Esper, MD, a specialist in pediatric infectious diseases at the Clinic of Cleveland, saidHealthIn 2019. "The sepsis is when you have an infection so bad that it diffuses through the corps-kidneys closing, the liver stop, heart is in difficulty," he warned.

The Mayo Clinic indicates that most people can recover from sepsis,The mortality rate is 40 percent In case it progresses with septic shock.

The line itself, known as infectious lymphangitis, occurs when bacteria, viruses or cause flammation of fungus and infection in lymphatic channels. According to Healthline, "theThe most common infectious cause of lymphangite is an acute streptococcal infection, "with staphylococcal infections also causing their fair share of cases. These may result from existing, internal infections or can enter the body by an open wound.

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Esper says there is an easy way to follow if redness on the skin or around an open wound spreads. "Take a pen and mark on the site. Draw a border around the redness, "he suggested, while talking toHealth. "The redness go beyond this brand [the next day]? If you are on antibiotics and redness beyond these Goes brands, we are on bad antibiotics or we need something more powerful. »

However, this approach "WAIT AND SEE" applies that if the redness is irradiating from a uniformly injury, which indicates a more general infection. If, on the contrary, it takes the form of a line or streak as if along a vein, do not wait to apply for medical assistance.

Esper also recommends request medical care if, in addition to this sign of infection, other symptoms of sepsis occur, including mental decline, fever or fatigue.

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Because many people do not know lymphangitis, they do not know how to pursue medical care when it happens.Alexandra Ruddy, A mother of the R.u. whose eight-year-old sondisplayed this symptom During a day out of the family, now spreads the word about the importance of immediate treatment.

"Yesterday, on our way to the beach, he showed me his hand," Ruddy wrote in a Facebook that has been shared 37,000 times since 2019, viaUnited States today. "I was not happy that I noticedred follow-up down his vein. I can check his elbow ".

Although Ruddy admitted that she felt "a little stupid" calling the doctor on something that looks small, she was finally greeted as a hero to treat him as a medical emergency. "It's not something you can" leave "until Monday when doctors are back at the office," she says, noting that sepsis can often be fatal.

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