Is sepsis leukemia?

Speaking of leukemia, I believe all of you know that this is a disease that endangers the patient's life. Although with the advancement of modern medicine, leukemia has the possibility of being cured, the chance of finding a matching bone marrow is very low, and the operation is very, very expensive. If many poor families suffer from leukemia, it is equivalent to a death sentence. It can be seen how harmful leukemia is.

However, there is another disease with similar symptoms to leukemia, which is sepsis. When many friends first hear about sepsis, they think that sepsis is leukemia. So, is this understanding correct? Is sepsis really leukemia? If you want to distinguish between the two, you must start with their symptoms.

Sepsis is mostly caused by trauma. If severe trauma is not treated thoroughly, bacteria can invade the blood and multiply in it, producing endotoxins and exotoxins, which can cause serious illness. The main clinical manifestations are chills, high fever, various rashes, hepatosplenomegaly, toxic hepatitis and myocarditis, abdominal distension, vomiting, bloody stools, headache, coma, etc. If abscesses appear in multiple parts of the body, it is called sepsis. Routine examination of patients with sepsis can reveal an increase in white blood cell count (which may also decrease in severe cases), and the same bacteria may be cultured from blood cultures more than twice.

Leukemia, commonly known as "blood cancer", is a malignant disease of the hematopoietic system caused by viral infection or exposure to radiation, chemical toxins, etc. The main clinical manifestations are fever, nosebleeds, bleeding gums, gastrointestinal bleeding, etc. There are also bone and joint pain, headache, enlarged liver, spleen and lymph nodes, swollen and painful testicles, etc. The diagnosis is confirmed by finding leukemia cells in a bone marrow puncture.

Theoretically, leukemia is more serious than sepsis because the patient's hematopoietic function is affected, and once a wound occurs, it is difficult to heal. Sepsis can usually be cured after choosing appropriate antibiotic treatment, but leukemia requires long-term treatment to be cured, and if the follow-up care is not paid attention to, it is easy to relapse.

To sum up, I believe you already know the answer to the question of whether sepsis is leukemia. Although these two diseases are completely different, their impacts on the patient's body cannot be ignored. Therefore, no matter whether the patient is diagnosed with leukemia or sepsis, we hope that the patient can actively seek treatment and believe in the power of medicine.