<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=184363.msg8879837#msg8879837">Quote from: Crash on 10-09-2013, 15:54:43</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Dhi - thank you for that visual. It was damn funny.  I think Little Fox is going to have to make a concentration roll not to stop gathering power and start laughing.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><em>Yip, yip! </em><br/><br/>(that's fox language for "you're welcome")<br/><br/>I often run into staph because people have mistaken it for a spider bite. I live in an area where spiders with a necrotizing bite are endemic. The culprit is usually MRSA, and an antibiotic treatment that the patient abandoned too soon. MRSA is nosocomial, which means you are at a higher risk of infection when hospitalized. The reason is that most people already have MRSA in their bodies, or at least on their bodies, outside the surface of the skin. Like most bacteria, it's kept in check by the activity of other bacteria. Under normal conditions, MRSA is not suited for taking over your body's defenses. Antibiotic treatment eliminates the competition, and because MRSA is<strong>M</strong>ethicillin<strong>R</strong>esistant, it can withstand antibiotic treatment even after the infection seems to be gone, after most people stop taking the antibiotic.<br/><br/>That's why antibiotic prescriptions advise patients to take the whole prescribed pill count, and indeed why you need a prescription for those medications. Eliminating bacteria from your body is not actually a good thing.<br/><br/>I know that swelling of extremities due to blood retention can be treated by over-the-counter antihistamine such as benadryl (non-drowsy). Hydrochlorothiazide (or HCTZ), normally prescribed as a diuretic and blood pressure medication, is a prescription-level treatment if benadryl doesn't get the job done. HCTZ is an extremely cheap medication at about $4 for a month.<br/><br/>Baby aspirin is sometimes used to treat ailments like venous stasis as well, because it thins the blood and eliminates the risk of blood clots and deep vein thrombosis. But even though that's an over-the-counter medication, it's something you would have to talk to your doctor about, because there are significant risks involved.<br/><br/>Thankfully it's something I haven't been at risk for, since my job keeps me outdoors and active. In the modern world where people are increasingly sedentary and work at a computer, it's becoming common.