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Is There Anyway To Tell The Difference Between A Staph Infection Or A Spider Bite?
Is there anyway to tell the difference between a staph infection or a spider bite? It started looking like a pimple that I tried to pop but just grew huge, red, and sore. The whole in the middle began to grow after gray stuff came out. Now there is a large hard lump and it hurts to walk (its on my leg). Lastly inside the red circle, now 4-6 inches in diameter, there is a purple very painful circle. I'm on antibiotics because the walk-in by my house said it was a staph infection but they didn't do any cultures to test for staph and the medicine isn't really working (I'm now on day 4 of a 10 day antibiotic). Thanks!
Wed, 10 Sep 2014
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Let me tell you that the herpes infection always being taken in the sense of spider bite and this is kind of myth but this could be herpes infection and in my opinion this need to be clinically seen, hope this helps.
Well come to HCM
Let me tell you that the herpes infection always being taken in the sense of spider bite and this is kind of myth but this could be herpes infection and in my opinion this need to be clinically seen, hope this helps.
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