Re: Another serious illness from Arkansas Rainbow gathering

On Sep 1, 8:10 pm, Shava_X <voodopeo...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This is also untrue. There is no such thing as "staph virus". Staph,
short for Staphylococcus, is a bacteria, not a virus. The distinction is
important.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staph

Staph is a bacteria. I treated many a cut when I lived on Maui.
Surfers would get cuts, and they'd develop into big pus craters. You
treat it with peroxide. and keep it covered with gauze and keep it
dry. More peroxide every couple of hours, and if it doesn't dry out
and start to heal in a couple of days, see a "real" doctor.

Untreated staph can kill. At a certain point, the infection will
"generalize", and start ripping thru the entire bloodstream. At that
point, you MUST see a doctor and/or get into the hospital. I've seen
people dink around with goldenseal, garlic, tape plastic bags over it,
yada for weeks, watching that crater get bigger and redder, until wham
-- they can't get out of bed one morning.

Also, just because a cut closes, does not mean it's not infected. I
stepped on a nail a few years back, and the skin healed, but I still
had an infection inside me. Feel for swelling and tenderness on a
closed cut you suspect to be infected. If that happens, get some
help.




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