Some symptoms of sepsis are serious.

Serious symptoms can end your life.

Symptoms are signs that you might be sick.

You don’t need to have all the symptoms listed to have sepsis.

If you or your child have any serious symptoms, you should:

• go to hospital right away

• call Triple Zero (000) right away and ask for an ambulance.

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Serious symptoms of sepsis in adults and older children can include:

• feeling more sick than ever before

• getting very sick quickly

• trouble breathing or breathing very quickly

• feeling confused.

Serious symptoms for adults and older children also include:

• not needing to pee all day

• a new rash that doesn’t fade when you press it

• blue, blotchy or pale skin.

Infections can lead to sepsis.

You can find out what to do in the section called What to do if you think you have sepsis?

Symptoms of infection in adults and older children can include:

• fever or shivering

• feeling very tired

• headaches

• pain in your joints and muscles

• swelling or pain around a cut.

Symptoms of infection in adults and older children can also include:

• fast heartbeat or pulse

• throwing up vomit

• diarrhoea.

Diarrhoea is when you have to go to the bathroom a lot because your poo is watery and loose.

You know your child best.

Call Triple Zero if it seems like something is very wrong.

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Or you should go to hospital right away if something seems very wrong.

Serious symptoms of sepsis in young children and babies can include:

• fever in a child less than 3 months old

• low temperature or cold skin in babies less than 1 month old.

Serious symptoms for young children and babies can also include:

• getting very sick quickly

• less pee than usual or no pee all day

• a new rash that doesn’t fade when you press it

• being upset or hard to comfort

• being quieter or harder to wake up.

Serious symptoms for young people and babies can also include:

• feeling floppy when you pick them up

• crying in a weak or high-pitched way

• blue, blotchy or pale skin

• having trouble breathing or breathing very quickly

• moving or shaking in a strange way – like a seizure.

Infections can lead to sepsis.

You can find out what to do in the section called What to do if you think you have sepsis?

Symptoms of infection in young children and babies can include:

• fevers in children older than 3 months

• diarrhoea or throwing up vomit

• behaving in a way that is not usual – like not eating

• swelling or pain around a cut.

The symptoms of sepsis for adults can also affect:

• pregnant people
• people who just gave birth.

But these people can have other symptoms too.

Other serious symptoms for pregnant people and people who just gave birth can include:

• pain in the area around your stomach

• bleeding from your vagina you didn’t expect

• fluid coming out of your vagina that looks or smells different.