05 Oct 2022 Sepsis Trust raises awareness in the farming community

Recent experience suggests that the farming community is more susceptible to sepsis due to the nature of their work, their resilience and can-do attitude, their often rural, isolated setting and a reluctance to have time off and/or seek medical attention when not feeling well.  If you, or a loved one displays any of the symptoms displayed below, it’s important that you seek medical attention, urgently:

Slurred speech or confusion
Extreme shivering or muscle pain
Passing no urine (in a day)
Severe breathlessness
It feels like you’re going to die
Skin mottled or discoloured

Visit this page to watch a video about Hannah’s story, a 28 year old farmer from Yorkshire who died from the condition.