Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Calling Doctor Mom!
Last Wednesday Littlest thought she noticed some bug bites on her arm and leg.
By Thursday night she had developed 2 nickle sized blisters on one leg.
To which Doctor Mom said, UGH, That might be staph!
The next morning the real doctor looked at it and said, I don't know, it might be an allergic reaction.
To which Doctor Mom just sniffed. (Thinking, yeah right, I've seen staph before) I've been a mom for 25 years thank you very much. I've seen everything from a chicken pock on an eyeball to Middlest having a weird tumor in her hand called a tumeral calcinosis usually found in patients with kidney failure and South Africans. She's a medical anomaly for the books!
So he put her on Claritin and possibly, because Doctor Mom looked at him like he was a moron, some super duper antibiotic.
Because it's STAPH. Yucky sores with nasty pus in them are staph.
Am I wrong Doctor Mom?
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Lord have mercy! I totally understand your frustration. We just went through something similar with my granddaughter, recently. (she's 10) They did labs and the tests came back inconclusive, but they did give her a topical medication that seemed to work wonders on the rash. It was called Permethrin cream.
ReplyDeleteI hope you are able to find something, soon and she can get some relief... and so can you!
Wow. I hope she's better really soon!
ReplyDeleteGosh! That sounds nasty! You must be exhausted! Hope she is feeling better!
ReplyDeleteYikes!! I don't have that medical instinct and imagine everything is legionnaire's disease. Good Luck!
ReplyDeleteWe went to a water park and something similar occurred. I thought at first it was a brown recluse bite (people can have really bad allergic reactions to this), but I thougth mrsa. It started out w/a scratch, then a dime size thing, now it's the size of a quarter. They still haven't cultured the area, but he now has a spot on his other leg, and the original is getting bigger. It goes like this: the area around the blister turns reddish/purple, the sore blisters, skin falls off of sore in one big circle, sore grows bigger. It's very frustrating, I've been at the doc so much this week, it's unreal. I remember seeing people w/open wounds at the waterpark and hoping my kids weren't around them. They tell me it may be staph, impetigo or mrsa, they are treating it w/the med they'd use for all three, but it's not really seeming to work. I hope you get concrete answers from the docs soon.
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