A member asked:

I had illness recurrent i suspect systemic candidiasis my gi and feces was positive for tropicalis and krusei..how can i know if i have sepsis?

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Dr. Cynthia Archer answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Sepsis isn't subtle: You would be critically ill with fever, hypotension, and altered level of consciousness if you had yeast in your blood. This is a common misconception. Sepsis is by definition a state of shock caused by systemic infection, bacteremia or viremia. Systemic fungal infections are very uncommon and usually are seen in profoundly immunosuppressed patients, e.g transplant, chemotherapy, AIDS.

Answered 8/2/2014

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