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BILL Clinton was left vomiting from “sepsis triggered by E.Coli" as Hillary was spotted leaving the hospital, where her ailing husband battled the infection in intensive care.
The former president, 75, was admitted to the University of California Irvine Medical Center for an "infection" on Tuesday, a spokesman for the former president said Thursday.
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His doctors reportedly told CBS contributor David Angus: "At the first event he started to feel lightheaded, nausea, vomiting, and was brought to a hospital
"At that hospital, he was found to have an infection in his blood, and they did a CAT scan, looked over his body and even his brain. And the infection source was found to be the urine.
"The bacteria that grew out was called E.Coli, and he was put on what we call broad spectrum antibiotics."
Hillary was pictured entering the Orange County hospital on Thursday night.
The 73-year-old was wearing a white face mask and was flanked by her security team.
Clinton, who was alongside her aide Huma Abedin, left the hospital just after midnight.
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She appeared to be in “good spirits” as she spoke with others as she left, Fox News reports.
The former First Lady attended a foundation event before visiting her husband at the medical center.
Bill Clinton was hospitalized on Tuesday for a non-Covid related infection.
Doctors say the former president is "on the mend" and in good spirits.
"Clinton was admitted to the ICU for close monitoring and administered IV antibiotics and fluids," according to a joint statement released by Dr Alpesh Amin, chair of medicine at UC Irvine Medical Center, and Dr Lisa Bardack, the ex-president's personal primary physician.
"He remains at the hospital for continuous monitoring."
The doctors are confident that the former president could be released as early as Friday.
"After two days of treatment, his white blood cell count is trending down and he is responding to antibiotics well," according to the doctors.
They added: "We hope to have him go home soon."
The former president fell ill on Tuesday when he was in southern California for a Clinton Foundation-related event.
Clinton reportedly developed a urinary tract infection that developed into urosepsis - a type of sepsis, CNN reports.
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The 42nd president is "mobile" and was joking around with hospital staff on Thursday.
Jaime Harrison, chair of the Democratic National Committee, tweeted: "Praying for a speedy recovery for President Bill Clinton."
Sepsis is defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Protection (CDC) as the "body’s extreme response to an infection."
It is considered to be a life-threatening medical emergency.
It is caused when an infection "triggers a chain reaction throughout your body."
The most common source of sepsis infection forms in the lung, urinary tract, skin, or gastrointestinal tract.
If the infection is left untreated it could quickly cause tissue damage, organ failure, and death, the CDC states.
Three years after the former president left the White House in 2001, Clinton underwent a four-hour quadruple bypass operation at the Columbia campus of New York Presbyterian Hospital.
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He then had two stents implanted in his coronary artery in 2010.
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What is sepsis and what are the symptoms?
The condition is always triggered by an infection.
It is not contagious and cannot be passed from person to person.
Most often the culprit is an infection we all recognise - pneumonia, urinary infections (UTIs), skin infections, including cellulitis, and infections in the stomach, for example appendicitis.
Typically, when a person suffers a minor cut, the area surrounding the wound will become red, swollen and warm to touch.
This is evidence the body's immune system has kicked into action, releasing white blood cells to the site of the injury to kill off the bacteria causing the infection.
The white blood cells and platelets form blood clots in the tissues around the cut.
Blood vessels swell to allow more blood to flow, and they become leaky, allowing infection-fighting cells to get out of the blood and into the tissues where they are needed.
This causes inflammation, which appears to us as the red, warm swelling.
When sepsis happens, this system goes into overdrive.
The inflammation that is typically seen just around the minor cut, spreads through the body, affecting healthy tissue and organs.
The immune system - the body's defence mechanism - overreacts and the result is it attacks the body.
It can lead to organ failure and septic shock, which can prove fatal.
Bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites can all trigger sepsis - though the most dangerous culprit is bacteria.
In developing nations, the condition remains a leading cause of death.
Known by its colloquial name "blood poisoning", sepsis is also often referred to as a "flesh-eating disease".
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