Staph infection

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I ended up with with a lump under my arm that over the course of a week enlarged to the size of a walnut and was bright red. It was painful and I lanced it. All was fine but about a week later I got another one. Went to the doctors and he told me I had a Staph infection. He lanced it, which was painful as when I did it I had a couple of martinis, and put me on antibiotics.

I have to say I am worried my immune system is off. But researching this appears very common. Any guidance on how to handle without meds or other ways to counter Staph would be appreciated. Thanks
 
71montess said:
I got staff in my elbo bursa sack years ago. Got sent home with an IV in my arm and I had to inject my own antibiotics. Staff is baad, what it closely .
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Took a fall at work and hit my elbow on the way down. I ended up with the same as you and had to go to the ER for three days straight so they could put in an IV with some strong antibiotics. Then two scripts of antibiotics to finally kill the infection.
TAKE THE MEDS.
 
Yogi. YOu must be at least as old as I am seeing Lee Marvin on your Icon....great movie....however I digress. There are a lot of evil germs out there these days and they blame us for the overuse of antibiotics. I spent 5 days on an IV in the hospital due to a similar exposure to viruses that exist in our every day life. Trying to do it yourself opens you up to MRSA......no fooling with this stuff. It isn't like splinters we used to play with as kids.....so....if you are developing these staph/bacterial infections you need medicine only prescribed by doctors. My wife just developed a ring worm infection. When is the last time you heard of one of those? Hopefully your doctor warned you to stop using soaps with antibacterials in them. I have started using nonlatex gloves while cleaning firearms and while building my ammo. I guess we screwed the pooch with the five second rule for too long! Oh...get a tetanus shot too....good for your weak arm shooting training ha ha
 
yogi said:
I ended up with with a lump under my arm that over the course of a week enlarged to the size of a walnut and was bright red. It was painful and I lanced it. All was fine but about a week later I got another one. Went to the doctors and he told me I had a Staph infection. He lanced it, which was painful as when I did it I had a couple of martinis, and put me on antibiotics.

I have to say I am worried my immune system is off. But researching this appears very common. Any guidance on how to handle without meds or other ways to counter Staph would be appreciated. Thanks
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Back in the day, you'd just die a horrible death and that would be that. Antibiotics are truly miracle drugs.

Not really much you can do to prevent these infections, obviously if you notice a wound you should wash/irrigate it promptly and aggressively.
 
Mass-diver said:
Back in the day, you'd just die a horrible death and that would be that. Antibiotics are truly miracle drugs.

Not really much you can do to prevent these infections, obviously if you notice a wound you should wash/irrigate it promptly and aggressively.
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This. As they say, 'what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.'

Of course, that means if you don't beat it on your own, you die.

Humans were smart enough to invent antibiotics. What not take advantage of our intelligence. I am assuming since you are on this forum, you are not just using a sharpened stick for self defense and have taken advantage of our this same intelligence and would consider using a firearm.

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Good luck. I got MRSA a couple of years ago and it took a lot to get rid of it. Do exactly what the doctor tells you to. This stuff is no joke.
 
boatman said:
Humans were smart enough to invent antibiotics. What not take advantage of our intelligence. I am assuming since you are on this forum, you are not just using a sharpened stick for self defense and have taken advantage of our this same intelligence and would consider using a firearm.

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Humans were smart enough to invent antibiotics, but not smart enough when over-prescribing them. As a result, through mutation, bacteria are developing genes to make them resistant to antibiotics.


The spread of superbugs—bacteria that have changed in ways that render antibiotics ineffective against them—is a serious and growing threat around the world, according to the World Health Organization's first global report on antibiotic resistance.


Once-common treatments for everyday intestinal and urinary tract infections, for pneumonia, for infections in newborns, and for diseases like gonorrhea are no longer working in many people.

The new report on the global threat adds to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report last year showing that two million people in the United States are infected annually with antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and 23,000 of them die each year as a result.

The bacteria have acquired the ability to destroy the antibiotic in order to protect themselves. They've developed a gene for resistance to, say, penicillin, and that gene protects them. A genetic mutation might enable a bacteria to produce enzymes that inactivate antibiotics. Or [a mutation] might eliminate the target that the antibiotic is supposed to attack.
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...bugs-antibiotics-resistance-disease-medicine/
 
had a diabetic friend that had to get his toe cut off.
contacted staph from the visiting nurses. the problems related to the staph just kept growing.
he passed away about a yr ago....
do exactly what your doc's tell you
 
yogi said:
Thanks all. I am taking my meds just like the doc ordered and am seeing improvement. Sucks getting old.
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Lancing a staph infection is a bad idea as it may drive the bacteria deeper into the tissues.

In addition to whatever the doctor prescribes you can do any of the following:

Apply directly to the skin, under a dressing if you like:
1. High activity Manuka Honey. There's a lot of counterfeit Manuka round now so you need to research what you're buying. The real thing is expensive.
2. Medicinal clay.
3. Stalin's penicillin, i.e. garlic. Cut or crushed fresh cloves applied directly to the skin.

Eat/drink: garlic, onion, turmeric, hot peppers, chili powder, fresh ginger, raw honey (NOT Manuka honey), organic apple cider vinegar.
 
You are lucky. I had a small infection on my back that required lancing at a doctor's office. A week later I had something horrible on my leg that also needed to be lanced but looked worse. 4 days after the doctor's office called me, told me to immediately discard the antibiotics they had prescribed and to report immediately to the ER.

Turns out I had contracted a MRSA infection during the first lancing. There where only 3 drugs they could prescribe that the type I had would even respond to. Thankfully the first one they tried knocked it out of me but it was a scary couple of days.
 
I had a zit on a finger get MRSA - I never knew so much pain could be concentrated in the most distal segment of a finger. I was prescribed IV Vanco which did the trick, and turned down the Oxycontin that was offered (since the pain was only intolerable if something touched the finger).
 
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