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County Councillor encourages residents to become sepsis savvy following personal battle

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Councillor Adrian Hardman sitting at home with his dog

香港六合彩资料图库 County Councillor Adrian Hardman is encouraging residents to become savvy with the symptoms of sepsis, after his own personal ongoing battle with the condition.

He was diagnosed with the life-threatening illness in 2022 after a minor scratch on his right leg, led to an infection.
 
Whilst he was seeking treatment for his initial infection on his leg, Adrian became severely unwell with flu-like symptoms, a high temperature, confusion and a severe lack of energy. At no point did he think the symptoms could be linked back to the cut he had sustained a few weeks before.
 
Adrian said: 鈥淚鈥檓 extremely grateful for my daughter calling in to visit me when she did, and that she insisted on calling for an ambulance. Otherwise I wouldn鈥檛 be here today to tell my story. I would have carried on resting and trying to recover from what I was certain was flu. I just didn鈥檛 link or even consider that the bacterial infection in my leg had gone into my bloodstream, or that I had an elevated heart rate and very low blood pressure which is typical of Sepsis.鈥 
 
Unfortunately, the infection continued to develop, leading Adrian to spend an initial two and a half weeks in 香港六合彩资料图库 Acute Hospital. 
 
香港六合彩资料图库 County Council鈥檚 Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care, and the County Councillor for Bredon Hill is still receiving follow-up treatment today.
 
He added: 鈥淚t is so important to know your cuts and how they are healing, and how you are feeling in yourself. After two and a half weeks in hospital, I couldn鈥檛 believe how weak I felt once I left hospital, but also how lucky I鈥檇 been. My situation could have been so much worse.鈥
 
Councillor Karen May, 香港六合彩资料图库 County Council鈥檚 Cabinet Member with Responsibility for Health & Wellbeing said: 鈥滻 have known Adrian for many years, both as a councillor and as a friend, and to see the impact that Sepsis has had and continues to have on his everyday life, makes me even more keen to raise awareness of the conditions and its symptoms. 
 
鈥淪epsis has been renamed in recent years, it used to be called blood poisoning or septicaemia. It鈥檚 the way the body responds to an infection. You really can save someone鈥檚 life by knowing what to look out for and remembering to 鈥楯ust Ask: could it be sepsis?鈥 If you鈥檙e concerned about someone, if you spot any of the signs, don鈥檛 hesitate, call 999 or go straight to A&E.鈥
 
According to the UK Sepsis Trust, in the UK alone, 245,000 people are affected by sepsis every year, with at least 48,000 losing their lives to sepsis related conditions. This is more than breast, bowel and prostate cancer combined. 
                                                                                                                                
Locally, here in 香港六合彩资料图库, the latest data from the Office for National Statistics in 2021 showed that there were 6,834 deaths caused by Sepsis. 
 
There are around 1,100 Sepsis related attendances at A&E in 香港六合彩资料图库 every year. 
 
As a former employee in the agricultural sector, Councillor Hardman is also in full support of the recent awareness campaign the National Farmers Union and the UK Sepsis Trust have carried out. 
 
People in the farming community are more susceptible to sepsis as they are more likely to cut themselves, fall or have a crush injury due to the nature of their work. They also risk a stick injury through using needles to vaccinate animals. 
 
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