Leg update #1 - Dressing Change - MRSA Staph Infection

Here's an update

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Howto & Style

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• Dressing
• Change
• MRSA
• Staph
• Infection
• Leg
• Update
• Erin
• Pickering

[Greatersend]

Question. When you shower do you do so with the tape covered? I'm so sorry that you had to go through this, but at least you are getting better.

[erinpickering]

@Greatersend I did not take a shower when I had this. I took a bath, and I kept the leg out of the water and washed around the area. I didn't shave around the area either. You want to make sure that you don't wash the wound IN the bath but separately like here in the video when you clean it. Washing it in the bath could spread the bacteria to other parts of the body - and could be dangerous if you had any open wounds in other places.

[lesleyh2211]

Hey i have a question was it small and it was eatting away under your skin.. i have one the size on like a nickel on my leg but its hurts in different areas of my leg.. Its only been a week, how long did it take for yours to get to that size

[erinpickering]

@lesleyh2211 you might want to go to the doctor. MRSA is well known for having a redness around the affected area. And most of the time, it is an infection that began from an open wound... not all the time, but what yours sounds like it might be is a cyst or something. Mine turned real bad real quick - in just three days. But just to be safe, you should go to the doctor. Don't play around with it, especially if the swelling is increasing a lot.

[erinpickering]

so, just so everyone knows, I am 100 percent better. There is a nice "dent" in my leg because the scar didn't heal smooth because so much "gunk" was taken out. Maybe one of these days i will post a video of what it looks like now.

[samtn1]

sexy legs

[erinpickering]

@samtn1 haha, thanks

[Quincy111]

ouch you poor woman =[

[OMGgrl555]

I was sick in october and my skin was peeling EVERYWHERE and when i. Say everywhere i really mean it even my hands were peeling a while layer of my skin was turning white and then reeling off like a snake. It was so crazy! I went to a doctor and he said it was a staff infection. He said i got so lucky because most kids got really sick during a staff infection but i didnt get sick at all. I threw up 1ce and i was super itchy and my skin was soooooooo dry. I feel sorry 4 u

[MrVampirin25]

wow i just got out of the hospital because of something like that on my leg. it is the most painful experience. at least it was for me, two surgeries to get it out and they had to put me to sleep eveytime they changed the packing....i still have the wound open but its healing great. good luck and i didnt finish watching your video because i really didnt like that experience myself

[dwizzle12326]

dats nastyy...

[xXxReFoMxXx]

gag

[coomason5]

I'm studying Medical Office Assisting and learning about infections and so on. This very informative. Thank you for sharing. All the best toward a full recovery.

[jupiknight]

I had this on the inside of my thigh, terribly close to my lady-regions. I was never able to SEE the nurses packing it or anything, so it's rather neat to be able to watch what was going on behind my back.

[Chantal2010ful]

wow i cant belive you can to that its freckky lol :)

[sneakhead86]

does that cotton every get stuck in your leg :[ that is very disgusting. i can neevr imagine putting that into a wound