I have poked my thumb with a needle and it seems to have gone septic. Will it be ok?
TIA
I have poked my thumb with a needle and it seems to have gone septic. Will it be ok?
TIA
Of course, a stringent course of antibiotics should do the trick. The alternative is amputation. HIlly
Poor needle! No - you will have to remove and replace it... ;)
Seriously, a septic injury may respond to hot salt water - as hot as you can bear easily. Keep the injury immersed for 5-10 minutes at a time, every half hour or so until the symptoms are relieved. if it doesn't respond within an hour or two, take it to the minor injuries unit and get it looked at. Are your Tetanus shots up to date? If not, get that fixed too!
No one on Usenet can diagnose you, you need to see a doctor.
If a deep puncture wound gets infected, see a doctor stat.
Prevention: when I was washing dishes with bleach in the water, wounds on my hands *never* got infected. Once I got a series of scratches from fingertip to elbow -- the infections stopped sharply at the water line!
Now that dish-washing soap has been reformulated to be incompatible with bleach (not to mention that DH is in charge of the dishwashing these days), I soak a fingertip wound in a little bleach in a shot glass.
Joy Beeson
Ow!!
Kirsten Sollie
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