Staph Infection
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Written by Jim on March 18th, 2008 with
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Two days ago my ring finger on my right hand started to itch. I first though it was just another mossy bite as I didn’t see anything biting me. But yesterday I noticed two small points filled with clear fluid. The wound itself is not painful, but I find the palm of my hand itching all the time. I took the first photo last night and the second one a few hours ago this morning. There seams to be a big difference and I wonder to what it will change next. Sound familiar to anyone? I live in NSW Australia.
I have a little raised cut that looked like it was infected. Then the next day it started looking like a volcano. After three days I went to he doctor and he gave me antibotics. It was really getting large and was red and hard around the middle. He thought it was a spider bite. The next time I was there he decided to drain it. He gave me a shot of lanocaine and I hit the roof. He jammed that needle in me. He then made an incision. He also suggested I inject hydrogen peroxide into the wound -I could not find any one who would agree with that. Because he jammed the shot into me and I doubted his knowledge I decided to go to Centra Care.
Got a super nice doctor who gave me a shot of lanocaine -which hurt but not as bad as the last guy and he packed it with medicated gauze. I went to another doctor 2 days later and he removed it and said it looked good. Still on anti botics. Guys don’t feel around with this stuff or you’ll end up having your arm or something else amputated. Keep your wound bandaged. Get some non stick gauze and put a little triple antibiotic on it to keep it from sticking to your wound. I would keep it dry and not get it wet when showering
I have bean bite or gotten a staph infection on my toe it is like a red blister and the skin around it is red.
We actually just found a camel scorpion spider in our garage in Yuma, Arizona…It was absolutely huge…It was unbelievable…I have never seen something like that in my life..Today we called the Pest Control company to come out and spray because we have a small dog and if it bites a small aniamnal it can KILL it….It may not be able to kill adults but it can kill an aniamal
When I went to sleep one night I woke up the next morning with itchy bites on each of my legs then they started hurting and i couldn’t walk, I was taken in the doctor’s office the next morning and they said it was definitely a spider bite. I was very scared because next my doctor said i had something called staph infection. Spiders usually carry it so i’d watch out it was completely terrible!
Having experienced staph from a boil and having experienced it with my husband (him from a bug bite, probably a spider) and now going thru this with my 13 yr son, i can tell you that the best thing to do is to apply warm to hot wash towels, boil the water with salt or onion and apply every 2 hrs for 15-20 min. Before it was confirmed that my son had staph, he showed me a red Bump on his pelvis that looked like a bite, it had a black head on it (this was weds night). There was no swelling to it yet. The next morning it became painful. I applied wash cloths and within 30 min the black head had fallen out. We did this throughout the day since he wasn’t feeling sick or anything and the cloths eased the itch and pain and the black head had disappeared we thought it could have been a bee bite. But on Friday morning he felt burning on the inside and when i looked at it the redness had formed a circle around the bite and it was now swollen, i knew right away he had staph.
He couldn’t see his pediatrician that morn, so i applied the wash cloths mixed with onion & salt and by that afternoon that he saw the ped, she confirmed that it was staph and was able to pop out enough pus for lab work. She gave him antibiotics and told us to keep with the wash cloths and that it may not pop entirely. Well i continued with the washcloths friday evening and by Saturday morning it started oozing. We continued this sat and sunday, by sunday afternoon the bump had diminish to about 1/4 of the size it had been. Now, oozing out the yucky stuff is extemely painful because you have to apply a lot of pressure to the hard areas around the bump to push out the pus and blood. this morning it looked so much better! The two holes he has where the pimple heads were look clean and healthy. He has a follow up on Tues. I truly believe that the warmth of the cloth whether its wet with hot water or steamed helps bring out the infection out of the infected area. When i developed my boil under my armpit, it became infected with staph (mrsa), the redness and burning associated with it had spread down to the side of my breast. The dr told me to apply the wash clothes, preferably with hot water (as hot as you can stand it) for 15-20min every two hours. He said my boil was so hard that it probably would not burst and if it didnt’ to come back in a week. He sent me off with antibiotics, gave me an antibiotic shot and 800mg of pain medication. I got home around 12:30 and started doing the wash cloths, but i boiled water and added onion and salt. Did this every 2 hours as scheduled and lo and behold while I was doing the 8 o’clock one, i notice blood & pus on the cloth, i ran to a mirror and saw a head on the boil.. i gently touch it and it began oozing… i rushed to the clinic that night and the dr could not believe that i was there.
He couldn’t believe the boil had busted that quickly. He even asked me what i had done, and i told him just what he said except i added onion and salt to the water, he said that probably did the it. He drained it that night and inserted a packing that i had to replace every other day but the important things was that the infection was out sooner and faster than expected!!! SO USE THE WARM to HOT CLOTHS with onions or salt!!! Oh, and to the person who has MRSA on her skin, clorox showers were recommended to us. Take a cup of clorox bleach and mix it in about 5g pail of water and pour over your body from your neck down after you have showered. do not rinse afterward!! this should be the last thing on your body.
all of the above, however I have thick brown stuff on my tongue and food taste funny, any advice, I can’t find anyone with this problem
A co-worker, while on vacation, was bitten by a spider-later to find out it was a brown recluse. The bite swelled up and was very painful. On his trip home, he stopped by a Rite-Aid and asked the pharmacist what to do. He recommended the Rite-Aid brand of “DrawOut Salve”, a tar smelling ointment that reminds you of what your Grandma would have used. Well, it caused the swollen site to drain profusely. The next day he went to his doctor and she confirmed it was a spider bite. She also said, had he not used the Draw-Out salve, she would have had to flay the arm open to drain the poison. He was put on antibiotics. A week later there was only a small scab where the bite had been. The Doctor not only recommends the Draw-Out Salve to her patients but has it on hand in her office.
A niece of another co-worker was also bitten a few weeks later. After going to the ER with little results, her aunt (knowing the value of the Draw-Out Salve’s results with the first bite) treated her niece with the salve. Within two days, all swelling was gone and there was no necrosis (skin eaten away by the venom).
I developed a staph infection from some sort of bite on my inner thigh and all I used on it was 2.5ph acidic water or hypochloris acid, as it is recognized as by the FDA. I got this from my Enagic SD501 water ionizer. I kept the wound wetted with this special water that is used extensively in Japanese hospitals and clinics to heal wounds topically. The infection Rapidly retreated so that now, two days after a full-blown infection covering about an area the size of a duck egg, with redness and heat extending almost over my entire inner thigh, to waking up with a boil with a head the size of a dime and base the size of a half dollar.
It started draining immediately upon applying the strong acidic water, which I did by saturating gauze and holding it in place on top of the wound with a large band aid. I am a nurse and have done a lot of wound care in hospitals and in clinic settings and have Never seen any kind of infection retreat this way, especially without the use of oral antibiotics. If you are like me and prefer to avoid drugs and antibiotics in favor of just giving the body essentially what it needs (I also hydrate my body internally very well with the alkaline ionized water), this is the way to go! It is not the first time I have personally experienced the wondrous healing powers of this water either!
@lavelle, glad to know you’re well now, amazing how a spider can literally put your life at risk.
Going into week two with my two spider bites an inch on the inside of my right ankle and mid-calf on the back of my right leg. Guess the little critter crawled up my pants leg while I was in the garden and bit me. Didn’t feel a thing, either. The leg tendon hurt pretty bad last weekend from my ankle to my knee from the ankle bite zone. Walking and flexing the muscles and tendons around the ankle bite site has not been a good thing to do in healing the bite above the ankle, but I have to work for a living and had no choice.
The lower bite hurts slightly to moderately all the time sitting or standing or laying down. The size is constant at about a half an inch wide with a quarter inch reddened skin outlining completely surrounding it. It looks like a gun shot wound from a small caliber round. No red streaks (as if blood poisoning is occuring) are present. There is a burning, itching, and pulsing type of pain associated with the lower bite site. Sometimes it feels like a very bad bruise when I walk and the boot makes contact directly with the bite.
The upper bite has scabbed over nicely and is healing. Sometimes it itches after I first get up and start to walk about from resting or sleeping, but it quickly subsides by the time I drink my first cup of coffee. I don’t pick at the scab or squeeze the area around it when it itches. I walk off the annoying sensation by staying busy or watching the news on TV.
The baking soda rubbed into the bite crater forms a hard, powdery seal that scabs over till body fluids dissolve it. Reapplying the baking soda as it cakes up and falls out .
Wiping out the decayed flesh with a rough cloth and applying the dry baking soda quickly afterward has appeared to keep the rotting flesh and depth of the increasing bite site to a minimum. Yeah, it hurts doing that with the cloth and I wouldn’t recommend doing it to a little kid, someone with a heart condition, or a whiny person, but the hole noticeably stopped spreading after I began wiping out the dead flesh with the rough cloth and began rubbing the dry baking soda into it. Daily I pour pure hydrogen peroxide several times into the bite zone to flush out any bacteria and then let it dry before rubbing in the baking soda. Rest of the time, I just reapply the baking soda. Even applied a very strong garlic tincture made with 90 proof vodka during the first week which too out a lot of redness after the pimples popped over each bite site. Garlic kills bacteria on contact and is a blood purifier.
The baking soda and clean water paste helped a lot at first in pulling out the venom and dead flesh and bacteria when I first discovered the bites in their pimple-looking stage, but I couldn’t work or walk with the paste attached to my leg. Kept falling off as I walked. I applied the paste at night and slept soundly after the stinging subsided in a little while.
Spider bites, from my numerous ones in my half-century life span, appear to heal faster if air can get to them.
When I stand too long or wear my work boot too tight or both, the bite above the ankle feels like it wants to explode out–like there is pressure building in the bite area that laying down takes away. So far, it hasn’t blown out.
Luckily, I have the day off and will stay off my feet as much as possible. That sensation that the bite mark wants to blow out with a lot of force is very uncomfortable and kind of scary. The mental image of a torrent of dead flesh, blood, and venom pouring out of the bite site in a gushing stream is sort of nauseating, but that is what the bite site feels like it wants to do if I stand too long or wear my work boot too tight. I might want to lay off the science fiction television for a while because images of alien bites exploding is the backbone of scifi TV.
As of now (two weeks after the initial sign of the bite), the crater fills with a amberish/clearish fluid that I wipe away and treat with hydrogen peroxide and dry baking soda applied directly into the crater to fill in the hole. It hurts, but it appears to be working in stopping the spreading of the bite’s overall size.
I wouldn’t try doing this sort of painful treatment to a small child, a childish person, or old person unless I sprayed a strong type of painkiller over the bite mark and kept the person distracted while the treatment was in progress. A very strong clove oil tincture is a good topical pain killer if you can’t afford the expensive sprays from a pharmacy.
Hope the above info helps. Note: I am not a doctor and use my above treatment method at your own risk. I assume NO liability if you further injure yourself. I strongly recommend you go to a doctor for treatment, but in our current financial state in the USA, you might not have the medical insurance that will cover a series of doctor’s visits it takes to treat a nasty spider bite. Contact your local county health clinic and maybe they can direct you to free medical care.
Abia the Cat
I have gotten a staph infection 3 times now. the first time I got it on my upper thigh and that time I went to the ER and they squeezed it out.. and it hurt so bad! 2nd time on my butt which really hurt..that time i was not going back to the ER i put drawing savve on it.. its been 4 years and now i have one on my under arm..
Not to mention the last two I still have scars from it..:(
go to the doc if this sounds like what you have.. its really painful the longer you wait