I need some medical help please

[Straybow]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi

Originally posted by Dis
I'm one of those wannabe macho guys who never uses a bandaid. Nor do I wash my scrapes and cuts. Many cuts I get and don't even notice them or know how I got them. Maybe I should be more careful from now on.

Usually though, my cuts are minor, and not very deep. If it's a serious one, I will wash it out.

Same with my dad. We weren't worried about this at all and then my mom told me all about this last night. Very scary.

My friend's father had problems with recurring leg infections. Some post-surgical, some diabetes related, etc. Will implore the Deity, my friend.

I have worked part time taking out trees and stuff for years. You can't stop and wash out cuts and scrapes or you'd never get any work done.

That said, at lunch break and after work I usually inspect wounds fairly carefully, and I use topical antibiotic like women use moisturizer. Arm scrapes usually clear up very fast, but leg scrapes don't. Must be something to do with circulation.

I had one spider bite back in September that I feared might be brown recluse. I didn't feel the bite at all or see what did it, but it had the characteristic white double-dot. It bubbled up with a small amount of pus but never became septic. It took a long time to go away, even for a leg wound.

Lately there has been discussion of brown recluse bite toxicity varying substantially. Maybe that's what it was.

[Ben Kenobi]

Straybow:

Yes they are considering the brown recluse, it makes sense given the time frame.

He's doing ok now, not getting any worse or better at this point, but we won't know for sure until later on.

Thanks for all the suggestions folks. It's nice to learn a bit more about what's going on. I was just worried, since I know very little about these things.

So thanks guys.

[DRoseDARs]

*shudder*

Spiders

Poisonous spiders

Deadly spiders ^ nth

[Barnabas]

Tell your father to take all the medication religiously or it can get worse if he stops, he may need e very powerful injection like those given to syphilis patients to kill the infection

that happened to me (not syphillis, but yes a very bad infection which lasted months due to being bitten by a spider, antibiotics did nothing, finally they had to give me the super powerful stuff)

It makes you think of how people lived 200, 300 etc years ago and could die any day

[Straybow]

Brown recluse... in western Canada??

[Dr Strangelove]

Yeah. I'm not sure that the brown recluse spider lives in Canada. Here in the eastern US Virginia is as far north as this spider lives, at least according to NIH. It could be some form of rapidly growing Staph or Strep. Frankly if it's necrotizing fasciitis I'm shocked that they discharged him so soon.

[Berzerker]

my brother had a staff infection of his leg, as bad as this sounds.

[Ben Kenobi]

He seems to be ok. Spoke with him today and the infection is much better.

I'll go see him tomorrow. Prolly should have gone over today but oh well.