Septic arthritis is a serious infection of the joints. It is characterized by fever, pain, chills, inflammation, and swelling in one or more joints. These joints have function loss in septic arthritis. It uses a great damage to bone as well as cartilage. It is capable of creating septic shock. Septic shock is a potentially condition. For these reasons, septic arthritis is considered a medical emergency. It can be seen in any age group from infants to adults. In adults, it affects weight bearing joints like knee, while in children, it affects mostly in the shoulders, knee, hips.
Sudden symptoms occur in septic arthritis and they include:
If you have septic arthritis in hip, you may experience a pain in groin area. It becomes worse if you try to walk in this case. Almost all cases have fluid leakage into the affected joint. Depending on how deeply the joint is infected, the soreness or warmness of the joint is experienced.
Septic arthritis occurs when some kind of infectious bacteria reached bone joint. Bacteria can enter into a joint through blood, injection, infection, surgery, or directly contaminates a joint.
