Blood poisoning
The term blood poisoning is used colloquially for both sepsis and lymphangitis :
- Sepsis is a generalized infectious disease in which pathogens (e.g. fungi , bacteria ) spread throughout the body in the bloodstream and the immune system is unable to localize the infection.
- In contrast to this, with lymphangitis only the lymphatics and possibly the lymph nodes are affected. The infected lymph system is visible as a red, painful, line-like reddening of the skin.
In both clinical pictures, the term blood poisoning is factually incorrect, since it is about infectious diseases and their effects, not poisoning .
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