A blood infection is not cellulitis, a blood infection refers to "Sepsis" which is a very serious life-threatening condition. Healthy individuals can get cellulitis depending on the degree of infection. It can take a few days up to weeks. Whether the patient is in isolation depends on the micro-organism, we've had patients in the ward with cellulitis and not in isolation because the organism is not highly transmittable.Â
@zed19910: The isolation is to protect the patient from outside infection, not from the patient transmitting it others. My mother is a near 20-year cancer survivor, and she gets this every several years or so. She's usually in the ER immediately after the first of the symptoms show up. It's the same procedures and routines each time. Feel free to disagree with what you have seen with healthy patients, but I've experienced it with her, unfortunately more than a couple of times. 4951