in some cases the response may be so overwhelming

that one goes into septic shock

that will cause rapid death

due to reduced blood supply to brain and vital organs

Prettu sure my neighbor's husband died of a blood infection. I saw him before he died and his eyes were yellow. Think he said blood infection

Or disease of some kind

eyes were yellow and blood infection sounds like biliary sepsis

if not otherwise unwell already

Took months to kill him

were eyes yellow for months?

For some time yes. Not sure if it was months

you can't be septic for months

that's for sure

Okay nevermind. I'm trying to remember what he died of, thought maybe it was sepsis or something

he could have well died of sepsis acutely

but had some other underlying problem

Right

liver failure?

For the record he worked for the city managing the pump systems and sewer systems

This was years ago now, i remember it being some disease or infection of the blood

probably acute or chronic leukaemia

Shitty.

How long do you have to clean a fresh wound?

Before something festers

difficult to say

Say a nice gash from a knife out in the woods

if you had a clean cut with a knife

you may be fine

if you had a ragged cut with say

a sharp stone

it could be cleaning wont do much good because so many bits are embedded

it would take debridement of the wound and multiple cleans and dressings potentially

however not all such wounds would cause overwhelming infection and sepsis

I should start packing a first aid kit when i go hiking then

you can survive infected wounds

you do often enough

Yeah i dont think ive suffered any infections yet

sepsis is quick

but infection is not

takes a day or days

So unless i get impaled on a branch i should be okay to hike down and live