Take Care of Your Sores

[Bumpatter]

This post is somewhat personal, but the consequences are too significant. Twice this year, we have been hit with a foot infection (mine from trip to Christmas Is., Tony wearing new dress shoes and getting blister on heel).
I have a dear friend whose son received a one inch cut above the knee doing cleanup in the garage and has lost significant portions of his thigh and butt cheek. It happens quick. Clean you wounds. If any sign of infection quickly get help.
In the post my son looks pretty chipper....not now. Take care.

http://swittersb.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/cut-sore-wound-care-infections-consequences/


Bumpatter

[fishkisser]

Any cut nowadays is nothing to dismiss casually ....
I contracted Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) ...
Staph on steroids , after 3 months of antibiotics and numerous outbreaks it seems to be under control ...
What a pain in the you know what , now I carry a small dropper bottle of iodine with me to put on every little nick I get ... :twocents:

[JD77]

That is a crazy post. Thanks for that info. I work at a school and we have a person on our staff that is paranoid of infections (MRSA in particular) There have been times when she's sent players to the hospital and I've always thought she was over-reacting. Your story helps me understand her. Thanks.

[Duckwheat]

Sitting here in the ER today. MRSA is rampant. Everyone says they got bit by a spider. If you find yourself thinking you got bit by something get it looked at. It is probably MRSA.

MRSA produces a product that increases the pain greater than one would expect from normal infected wound.

Nothing scientific, but I sure see a lot of people with tatoo's that have MRSA.

Pay attention and get it looked at if a wound is not healing normally.

DW

[kilchisfisher]

That is a crazy post. Thanks for that info. I work at a school and we have a person on our staff that is paranoid of infections (MRSA in particular) There have been times when she's sent players to the hospital and I've always thought she was over-reacting. Your story helps me understand her. Thanks.


My mother contracted MRSA in the incision for her hip surgery about a month ago and we almost lost her. I couldn't believe how fast it grew and how much pain she was in. She doesn't like any pain medication, and went from slightly uncomfortable to totally pain medicated in about two hours. It left her too weak to sit up unassisted and she couldn't even slide herself up in her hospital bed. It has been a very slow recovery. The infectious disease doctor told me that about 20% of the population has it on their bodies at any given time, and that the two most common places to catch it are hospitals and in nursing facilities, and the next most common group are athletes. (Disclaimer - I'm not a doctor and don't even look like one, and am merely repeating what I was told :-)

I work in a school and I'm going to be very aware of this from now on.

For myself, I like the personal iodine bottle idea.

[AndyK]

No MRSA, but in May I scraped a knuckle and paid it little attention; it just happens too often. A couple days later, my hand was red, swollen and sore. The diagnosis was blood poisoning. The doctor immediately put me on intravenous anti-biotics with a follow up of oral anti-biotics for ten days.

I could have lost a hand, arm or even my life from an inconsequential scrape.

[KillerDave]

Bumpatter,

I've met your son at NWFFO several times. Sorry to hear this happened.

20 years ago I got a staph infection on my knee. I had scraped the skin sliding into third base during baseball practice and started wearing a knee pad until it healed. Sweat soaked into the knee pad and a few days later, instant staph infection. Luckily antibotics controled it.

The only thing I'd add is while cleaning the wound is a must, if your injury is on a rub zone like your foot, knee, elbow, etc. you still have to wear clean clothes to avoid getting an infection. When I was in college and doing my own laundry, this was easier said than done.