​Bacterial infection incubation period

Generally speaking, bacterial infections have a certain incubation period. Different bacterial infections and different diseases have different incubation periods. Generally speaking, after a bacterial infection, the disease often occurs within 1 to 2 days. Of course, the incubation period of some bacterial infections may be longer. Bacterial infection mainly occurs when bacteria invade the body, enter the blood circulation, and multiply. At this time, toxins are produced, causing some symptoms.

What is a bacterial infection

Bacterial infection is an acute systemic infection caused by pathogenic bacteria or conditionally pathogenic bacteria invading the blood circulation, growing and multiplying, and producing toxins and other metabolites. It is clinically characterized by chills, high fever, rash, joint pain, and hepatosplenomegaly. Some may have infectious shock and migratory lesions. An acute systemic infection caused by pathogenic microorganisms invading the blood from wounds or infected lesions in the body. Clinically, some patients may also experience irritability, cold limbs and cyanosis, rapid pulse, rapid breathing, and decreased blood pressure. Especially the elderly, children, those with chronic diseases or weakened immune function, those who are not treated in time and those with complications may develop sepsis or septicemia.

Disease treatment

General and symptomatic treatment: bed rest, enhanced nutrition, and appropriate vitamin supplements. Maintain water, electrolyte and acid-base balance. Blood transfusion, plasma, albumin and immunoglobulin were given when necessary. Physical cooling can be given for high fever, and sedatives can be given to those who are irritable.

Pathogen treatment. Timely selection of appropriate antimicrobial drugs is the key to treatment. Attention should be paid to early treatment, adequate dosage and the use of bactericides as the main agents; generally two antibacterial drugs are used in combination, mostly intravenously; the first dose should be larger, attention should be paid to the half-life of the drug, and the drug should be administered in divided doses; the course of treatment should not be too short, generally more than three weeks, or 7 to 10 days after the fever subsides before the drug can be stopped as appropriate.

Treatment of local lesions: Purulent lesions, whether primary or migratory, should be promptly punctured or incised and drained with appropriate and adequate antibiotics. For purulent pleurisy, joint abscess, etc., antibacterial drugs can be injected locally after puncture and drainage. Surgical treatment should be considered when bile duct and urinary tract infections are accompanied by obstruction.

The key is to choose appropriate antibacterial drugs in time, and provide rest and adequate nutrition. Once the diagnosis is basically confirmed, treatment should be started as soon as possible. Before a positive culture result is obtained, medication can be given based on the type of pathogenic bacteria inferred from the bacterial invasion route and clinical manifestations. If a positive culture result is obtained but the treatment effect is poor, appropriate antimicrobial drugs can be selected according to drug sensitivity tests. For Gram-positive coccal infections, penicillin, erythromycin, cephalosporin, etc. can be used; for Gram-negative bacilli infections, gentamicin, amikacin, cephalosporin and semi-synthetic broad-spectrum penicillin can be used; for anaerobic bacterial infections, metronidazole is the first choice, and penicillin, chloramphenicol, chloramphenicol, etc. can also be used; if sepsis is indeed caused by fungi, amphotericin should be used. In addition, it is also important to correctly handle local lesions and prominent contradictions at each stage (such as septic shock, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and heart and kidney failure).