Have Headache, Leg Pain, Bleeding Nose And Tested Positive For Malaria. Any Thoughts?
Your fiancee tested positive for blood culture means she needs antibiotics in her treatment. Recently due to acute renal failure (road accident and the subsequent need of dialysis), and malaria her immunity has gone for toss and she needs appropriate antibiotic treatment against the blood infection. She must be taken to a very good physician for this without any delay.
Bleeding from the nose might be due to the infection spreading in the blood (sepsis) or due to dengue kind of hemorrhagic fever itself. Other possibility- Headache and nose bleeding happen when BP reading goes very high. In this case, her kidney functions must be checked again to make sure that it is not causing uncontrolled BP and hence the bleeding.You please do not wait for any second opinion and take her for hospital treatment right away.
After she comes out of this infection etc , she must take enough rest and very good nutrition to build immunity to avoid such infections again.
Please let me know what does the physician say. Come back here for any further query.
Look forward to your opinion.
In addition to the above doctor, also wanted to inform that we are getting her admitted to a hospital. Hence, like to also have your opinion on how many days would it take before she is discharged and free to come back home.
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Take care.
the report from the blood culture says :
"haematology says leucocyte count 90k, dlc test polymorph lymphocyts n monocyts r 10 n 0 % lower than usual all other r higher, cml
cml referon a pyrigesic coblex"
could you help decipher what does this mean.
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We are not talking about possibility of sepsis only on the basis of one time bleeding from nose, but we are suspecting it on the basis of various conditions you have described here.
If you or her close family members take care of her and take her to hospital right away for treatment then she'll recover fast. there is no point in wasting 24 hours of questioning over this. I hope if not you, at least her other family members have taken her to the hospital and she's already been started on proper treatment by now. Good luck. Get back for any further query.
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Do not worry about your questions. You can ask as many questions as you want. I was wondering if you were still waiting for an online consultant to answer your doubts before taking her for treatment to an actual physician.
The CML referon is Interferon alpha used in the treatment of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (a cancer of blood cells).
I understand your concern may be likely because she's your fiancee and not your wife yet, but please make sure you are supportive to her during her treatment, irrespective of your future relationship with her. You can talk to the physician about her prognosis as he/ she would be able to comment better after seeing her personally and judging clinically.
Get back for any related query. Take care.
wish all the best.
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Thanks.