How does e. coli get into your blood?

Answer 1

My husband recently suffered sweats and rygors twice before being rushed to emergency locally. He was finally diagnosed as e-coli infection in the blood. They do not know how it got there and whether it somehow entered hi blood stream via a mild diverticulitis..not painful and being a vegetarian, something we had not even considered. They think he got run down working on detailing 3 cars over 2 weeks (he's 72) and this allowed his immune system to run down and allow perhaps, the diverticular to host this bacteria enoughn for it to penetrate a small lesion. Which they couldn't see, but figured there's o other way. My husband was on the only antibiotic which responded to this particular strain of e-coli which is cifran for 8 days. This caused side effects and so he stopped it after follow up with our gastro specialist. Just wanted to know if this e-coli could enter blood through or via a lesion inside the backside cheeks which he scratched nightly making it bleed..