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You can die from virtually any infection in virtually any part of your body, but it is also true that infections in the leg statistically are more serious for many people than an infection elsewhere!.

We live in an age where people take medicine too much for granted and we assume that everything can either be prevented or cured!. Except maybe for the odd cancer!. It's wrong, because while most infections can be treated, the treatment needs to be timely and appropriate!. Scrape your knee and you should be fine!. Wash it and use something like bacitrin!. For some people at higher risk, they should see their doctors!. Diabetics can have very serious infections in their legs!.

Imagine you're walking in a wilderness area and through some mishap, you fall and break an ankle, some part of your leg and perhaps, but not necessarily, you break the skin somewhere!. Someone comes by a day or so later and find you dead!. Not of a broken leg or ankle, but of some intense infection such as gas gangrene, caused by clostridium perfringens!. This bacteria is involved in some types of food poisoning, but is especially dangerous for wounds of any kind!. At one time, many people who underwent surgery died of gas gangrene!.

in war after war, thousands upon casualties died of gas gangrene!. Lack of antibiotics was one reason, but many died despite antibiotics, and others lost limbs to the fight to excise the infection!. Legs were especially vulnerable!. Withhold treatment from someone with a gangrene infection and they will die!. Delay treatment and they may die despite treatment!. That happens too often in prisons in deveoping countries!. A similar quick path is the course of many infections although we are not commonly exposed to them!.

Not only can a leg infection kill you, some specific infections can kill you literally within hours -- and in some infections while the patient may live, they could lose a leg or almost as bad, need to have most of the muscle tissue removed!. Why are leg infections so serious!. For many reasons, but restricted blood flow is fairly common in some groups!. At the same time, some of the largest blood vessels are in the leg, so that an infection that turns serious can enter the blood stream rapidly!.

Never take an infection lightly!. Don't take a break in the skin too lightly!. It is one reason Tatoo parlors are supposed to be strongly regulated - it is after all multiple breaks in the skin!. What seems to be a minor infection can be complicated by more serious infections!.

Not many people are aware of a skin infection known as cellulitis!. It is a skin infection that usually begins with a reddening of the skin and that becomes more widespread and painful as it spreads!. Oral anti-biotics may control the infection, but hospitalization may be required so that IV antibiotics can be given along with painkillers!.

The effect in a limb can be quite serious!. It can be complicated by gangrene which must be treated much more aggressively!. It can cause sepsis, a generalized infection and shock!. Google for Cellulites!.

To be fair, Cellulitis can be dangerous anywhere on the body, but on the face can be even worse!. Apart from Sepsis or gangrene, Cellulitis of the face can lead to meningitis!. And while cellulitis is associated with a break in the skin, that break can't always be seen!. An insect bite or a microscopic entry point can cause the infection and may not longer be visible when the Cellulitis becomes evident!.

I'm familiar with cellulitis!. I had a minor slip on a icy driveway, no damage observed or felt!. Several nights later, I realized my hand seemed to have a rash, a bit like poison ivy!. By the next morning, the hand was a little swollen and I headed for my doctor's office!. By the time I got there, the hand was swollen like a clown hand and the infection was rapidly moving up my arm!. I was hospitalized for 10 days!. No one found an entry point for the infection that almost cost an Arm!. Prompt treatment made the difference!. The infection was severe enough that I lost partial use of that hand!.

There is another infection that is extremely rare but popular in the supermarket tabloids!.Necrotizing fascilitis or fascilitis necroticans, popularly known as flesh-eating bacteria, is an infection of deeper layers of skin and tisue!. It actually can be caused by a number of bacteria, including the same one that causes gangrene!.

While it can be prevented by vaccine, tetunus is another potentially serious backterial infection!. For someone unfortunate enough to have a severe case of tetanus, the mortality rate is very high!. At one time infections through bare feet were fairly common!. A puncture wound should receive medical treatment!.

Every infection in the limbs is made worse by peripheral vascular disease, as mentioned above!. An inadequate flow of blood to the fingers or toes or anything in between prevents the body from delivering enough white cells to effectively fight a disease!.

Unfortunately, bacterial infections are not the only ones to be leery of!. Bacterial pneumonia tends to be more serious than viral types!.

But there are viral infections that can spread from any point on the body!. Rabies is a type of viral infection and treatment becomes very difficult - death becomes a likely outcome -- once neurological signs are seen!. Contact with rabid animals through the legs is as likely as anywhere else!. Bites from rabid or possibly rabid animals must be treated immediately!. It is somewhat unfortunate that some rabid animals may bite without the victim being aware!. Bats are a good example!. Any contact with a bat should be taken to a doctor promptly!. If a bat somehow gets into your house, close it off in a room if possible without getting near it and call animal control!. Or, lock yourself in a room you're sure is batfree -- or leave the house!.

So the answer to your question is yes, an infection in the leg can kill you!. Not every infection will and such death is rare!. But no infection should be ignored!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

it's unprobable in our day and age because there are sooo many treatments to kill infections and if that doesn't work then there is always amputations

however that is only if you seek medical help

and don't ever underestimate the rate of time that infection can spread!. because its crazy how fast they can spread!.

so don't keep putting it off get it checked right away

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yes!. that's why there is such concern when a diabetic person's leg/foot infections do not heal!. i think you could eventually die from an infection in any part of your body if it was left untreated and the infection spreads to the bloodstream!. that's why people take antibiotics!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Yes, it's possible for the infection to get seriously out of control and kill you!. It's not all that probable though; they amputate before that happens if medication can't help!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

yes!. if I remember correctly, the wrestler Chris Candido did just that not too long ago!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

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