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For those of you who are newer to PopThatZit, Steven has become a friend and constant contributor to the site, chronicling his long battle with Dissecting Scalp Cellulitis. After a hiatus, here he is again, sharing some more scalp pus squeezing to drain some of the tender spots on his head. Here is the other [...]
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~ ~ UPDATE ~ ~ Friday, 05-11-2012: Nana is still in the hospital. She has had 5 units of blood and is on 4 different antibiotics. She had gone septic, and the hematoma isn’t going down so she is most likely going to need surgery to remove it before she can get any better. Her [...]
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“Charlotte’s Story” The worst set of plantar warts I’ve ever seen. Video is first of a series (about 20 parts). It’s from a British TV show called “Embarrassing Bodies.” Educational AND gross. This poor kid actually has part of her immune system missing! She has to have a bone marrow transplant to permanently fix the [...]
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but it requires breaking up the loculations. An infection this big can develop membranes or septa that stop parts of it from draining. You can squeeze as hard as you like for as long as you like, and these septa will stop the infection from draining. You need to take a small hemostat, close it, insert it into the infection through the hole you made. See the lines on the skin…those are the targets, only on the inside. Get the hemostat as close as you can manage and OPEN THE HEMOSTAT.
Oh, this will hurt like a cousinlover. One way to help it to pick up a pack of toothache swabs, the kind that are 20% benzocaine. That’s not a typo, this jazz is 20% benzocaine, and you get the swab wet and apply the medication to the infection from the outside going in. Get numb (but not stone numb, because pain is your final warning that you are going too deep) and break up the membranes. Then squeeze again. Recognize that yu will need to repeat the drainage at least once or twice, but this will help resolve it and if you have a scrip for an antibiotice for pity’s sake refill it and take a course of it.
this looks so painful !
i love it
Hiya, Cybershark! Thank you for that excursion into sanity. My thought while watching–one word: d o c t o r !
jeeze Archie, I’m sure thats way passed healed up, but if you should ever see this, you had some serious infected tunneling there
Cybershark! Excellent advice.
Squeezing then a small incision and things would be moving fast.