Possible reason for some abcesses

[jagerbombme]

this is all interesting and strange at the same time. now i am currently knocking on wood with this one. but, i am an electrician and cut myself all the time, my hands and arms have cuts all over them constantly, there's times there's twenty cuts and scrapes on me at once. it's nature of the job. handling conduit with oil and dirt all over it, dusty wire and material, hands are filthy when i get out of work. i have never ever ever, knock on wood, had an infection in a cut or scrape or anything. i find this odd being most people carry staph on them, how and why i never got infected.


my injection practice though is to take a shower, get dressed, get all my materials needed into the kitchen, wash my hands again, and then proceed as i indicated before. something with taking a shower prior keeps the skin soft for less prickly needle pain. i have to agree with whomever said also that this little bitty hole closes up quickly probably within minutes as he said. i don't think your injecting, going to the gym, sitting down and bacteria going through your clothing, into your injection site and causing abcesses. just don't buy it.

this is a good debate though and hopefully sparks everyone to learn and do more sterile operations when injecting

 

[acneman]

well i got an abcess
nurses all said staff
doc said staff or spider bite
i told him i felt a stinging itching in the spot before inflamation and thought it was a mosquito bite
he said it could have been a mosquito followed by staff
long story short i got cut and packed with gauze
no wound before infection and developed a cold during progression of the abcess so i possibly could have been imunosupressed by the cold prior to symptoms
the docs and nurses said that they deal with about 5 to 10 of these a day and i live in a small town outside of biloxi ms