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Not Seeing Or Feeling An Improvement With Oral Antibiotic For High BP?
Question: Infection on right lower arm 11 day old tattoo. Symptoms include: Painful on and around area. There is a Red rash spreading. Red lines coming out of the infected area. Fever, chills, high blood pressure, sweating, nausea, diarrhea, Shaking, Yellow/brown pus, Bleeding.
Started a second round of an oral antibiotic (Cleocin 300mg 6/27/24) 4x a day)
Not seeing or feeling an improvement? Symptoms have been getting worse over hours.
Started a second round of an oral antibiotic (Cleocin 300mg 6/27/24) 4x a day)
Not seeing or feeling an improvement? Symptoms have been getting worse over hours.
Brief Answer:
Need to see a surgeon
Detailed Answer:
Hello and welcome,
It is good that you have started antibiotics. Antibiotics may take 2-4 days for any improvement to set in. Is the pus point forming and ready to be drained out? If it drains naturally within a day or two, the area may heal by itself. You can clean the area with a local antiseptic like Betadine solution etc, rinse it will clean water and apply a Band-Aid on top of it.
Since it is getting worse, then under cover of antibiotics, you may need to get the infected area debrided by a surgeon asap. So I think you should see a surgeon. Since you are getting a fever and shaking, this may be developing into a sepsis. We need to avoid that. IV management maybe needed.
Regards,
Dr Vaishalee
Need to see a surgeon
Detailed Answer:
Hello and welcome,
It is good that you have started antibiotics. Antibiotics may take 2-4 days for any improvement to set in. Is the pus point forming and ready to be drained out? If it drains naturally within a day or two, the area may heal by itself. You can clean the area with a local antiseptic like Betadine solution etc, rinse it will clean water and apply a Band-Aid on top of it.
Since it is getting worse, then under cover of antibiotics, you may need to get the infected area debrided by a surgeon asap. So I think you should see a surgeon. Since you are getting a fever and shaking, this may be developing into a sepsis. We need to avoid that. IV management maybe needed.
Regards,
Dr Vaishalee
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