Followup: tissue infection

[Kitsune06]

Are you soaking with *just* hot water or adding a tsp of sea salt per cup of water? Yes I'm splitting hairs, but upping the salinity of the soak may have at least a slight effect.

However, if tissue integrity is suffering that much, introducing water may actually be worse for you. Maybe someone can confirm or deny this for me, but I would be more apt to recommend a dry, hot compress like a heating pad or the like.

Yeah, the red irritation is a bad thing. Has the infection been cultured? Do they know what type of bacteria they're working with? Apparently the broad-spectrum antibiotics hadn't been working.

I'd be most concerned with the possibility of septicemia with such a long, ongoing infection in progress. How much vitamin C are you taking? If you're not on antibiotics at all right now (and even after you are...) I'd suggest at LEAST a 1,000 mg/day, up to 5 or 6,000mg. I will PM you on this.

My suggestions are modest at best, but at this point, every little bit that you can do will help.
A therapy used increasingly in California and with relative regularity in other countries may be an option... I'm linking to it here but it may cause distress in those with weak stomachs... But it's proven effective even in wounds infected with MRSA group A and B streptococci, gram-positive aerobic and anaerobic strains.
Best of luck to you.... I hope it all turns out okay.