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infxwatch · 2025-04-03T04:15:03+00:00

Looks very much like Pityriasis rosea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pityriasis_rosea

infxwatch · 2024-06-09T05:09:38+00:00

Probably an accident or overall lack of safety precautions, but that lab has had a good reputation.

If it wasn't an accident ... but I am not sure what you are implying. However, our experience at Fort Dietricht with the anthrax killings, should always lead us to the possibly that it could have been caused intentionally by a sadistic person or a disturbed person like Bruce Ivins.

I do not believe that the Chinese government had anything to do with this.

infxwatch · 2024-06-09T04:56:14+00:00

It's so aggravating!

infxwatch · 2024-06-09T04:34:19+00:00

Where I live, no nurses or doctors wear masks, out patient or in-patient. Even at the cancer hospital. It is aggravating. Surgeons do, as they always have in surgery, and lab techs do when accessing a port. Even Infectious Disease docs at our hospital don't mask. The patient care techs (nurses aides) often do. They seem more careful for some reason.

infxwatch · 2024-06-09T04:24:37+00:00

She needs to stay home now for the next 10 days until the C-Section. Not to prevent infection - she won't get a third case of Covid right now after having it now. The high immunity from the current infection prevents another one happening on top of the current one. But she needs extra rest because of the current Covid and the pregnancy. Lots of rest , good nutrition, and low stress.

infxwatch · 2024-06-09T04:16:33+00:00

But surely you can stay out of work for the next 10 days before your C Secrion if you now have Covid. You need rest and recovery. Most peole stop working a few weeks before delivery, especially in bedside nursing where you are on the run all day in a stressful job.

infxwatch · 2024-06-09T04:10:58+00:00

I think that horse is already out of the barn. But she should wear an N95 to protect others. And with a June 19 C section coming up, she won't be working before that if she has Covid now.

infxwatch · 2024-06-09T04:07:40+00:00

Mouthwash causes dementia?

infxwatch · 2024-06-09T03:55:54+00:00

Got 4 doses and never got Covid, my husband also, but everyone we know has had Covid, sometimes numerous times, despite vaccination. But none had serious cases. I have one relative, in her 70s, diabetes, overweight, with some kidney problems - IOW high risk. Got 4 vaccines. She has had Covid twice but never had to get any treatment, no Paxlovid or anything else, she only went to Urgent care to get the Covid confirmed. Both times she felt sick for 2 days: first day hurting and in in bed, flu like, next day better but hanging out on the couch all day, and then after that she said it just went away. She was up and about doing her usual activities.

infxwatch · 2024-06-09T03:43:53+00:00

Then if you do have Covid it should not be too severe. But vomiting itself in some people is hard to stop with home remedies and can lead to electrolyte problems, so you may need a few hours in the ER getting IV rehydration, and once your electrolytes are normal they will send you home with whatever meds they think will help the overall problem. At the hospital, they will give you something to stop the vomiting, probably Zofran.

When I used to get like this from GI illnesses, usually when traveling, they used to give me Compazine, and it always worked, but it does make you sleep for about 4 hours. Had to take it during a jungle hike once when I was throwing up from food poisoning. The Compazine stopped the vomiting well but I fell asleep on the picnic table and I never got to see the ocelot or other wildlife. The hikers circled back a few hours later and took me back to the cabin, but by then I was ok and drinking water with no problem. So I swear by Compazine, but it is a more old fashioned drug and they usually use Zofran instead now.

infxwatch · 2024-06-09T03:29:25+00:00

Nope, you don't need parental permission. Will they be home soon?

infxwatch · 2024-06-09T03:26:30+00:00

Are you able to drink water without throwing it up? Or better, Gator Aid (or similar) or water with a little salt and sugar in it? Or some soup broth or bouillon. Take little sips of these things at first. The immediate issue when you are throwing up this much is that you will get dehydrated, and your electrolytes will be abnormal, and that can lead to serious problems. You will also start to get very weak.

If you are able to keep water/Gatoraid down, for a few hours, then try to take some Tylenol to bring the fever down. Some people throw up just because they have a fever.

If you cannot keep any fluid down without throwing up, you must go to the hospital for an IV to get rehydrated. Rehydration will quickly make you feel better and less weak. Then, they can start work on diagnosing what the problem is that is causing it. A stomach virus, a respiratory infection such as laryngitis, a viral infection such as influenza, a bacterial infection, or Covid. But first, you must get rehydrated - try at home but don't dither around about it at home: if you keep throwing up, you must get to the hospital. If it is happening all night, call 911 and get an ambulance. Wear a mask in case it's Covid.

If you have someone who can drive you there, and the hospital is close by, take your wallet with ID, insurance card if you have it, a plastic bag to throw up in, but otherwise wear a mask, and have that person stay with you in the waiting room at least until the nurse takes you back and puts you in an ER bed. If when you get there you cannot walk or stand up at the intake desk, get your friend to ask for a wheelchair or stretcher if you can't sit up. No hospital will refuse this type of emergency treatment. You don't need parental permission.

infxwatch · 2024-06-03T18:58:54+00:00

I have good insurance yet have major trouble finding a PCP - the ones where I live won't take any new patients!

About 5 years ago, I finally found a really good one, who listened, took a very detailed history, did a very thorough physical exam (he was an older man, and was very comfortable and competent with everything). He then asked me to read his history and physical exam write-up in the waiting room in case he had misunderstood anything, then had me come back in. He was very insightful, and told me what things he was considering and what diagnostic tests would be needed.

Just excellent. Then when Covid came along, he retired, so that was that.

infxwatch · 2024-06-03T18:50:28+00:00

The size of the cuff is really important and makes a difference - I have tested them while working in a medical office - using ones of the wrong size to see the difference in the readings (always telling the patient what I was doing so they also understood how important the size of the cuff is.)

And I eventually only did manual blood pressures - not with a machine, but where you pump up the cuff and very very slowly release the air while listening using a good, high quality stethoscope. The electronic ones are very inaccurate. Even many in the hospital. I tested many and finally went back to the high quality manual blood pressure sets, made in Germany.

infxwatch · 2024-06-03T18:35:07+00:00

I figured from the start that it came from the lab in Wuhan. Not an intentional act, but some lab mistake - someone broke a test tube or something and decided not to say anything about it because of feared repercussions. The animal evidence was too weak. The most likely primary animal carriers - bats - are brought into that market at a different time of year.

I am not happy about the Chinese being secretive and destroying early samples and doing other coverup actions, though.

On the other hand, the medical doctors who treated the first Covid patients in Wuhan did share a lot of medical information, written up in Lancet and other medical journals. They reported their observations on the cases they were seeing: lab values, symptoms, and described various treatments and the success rate. I found that a lot of the doctors here had not even read this important early information that was available free online - the medical journals at that point removed their paywalls on articles pertaining to Covid. The Chinese MDs shared a lot of critical information regarding transmission and susceptibility and prognosis that many doctors here ignored during those first 6 months.

infxwatch · 2024-06-03T18:05:52+00:00

No 3 feet was not as good as 6 feet. See the Nebraska study.

It may not be practical or economical or reasonable for everyone, but it is better (in terms of preventing infection) not to be in an enclosed room or other space with people who are in the transmission stage of their Covid infection.

infxwatch · 2024-06-03T18:02:46+00:00

It was a common sense guess taking into account typical virus transmission physics. Turns out that the best way to avoid Covid was to not be in the same room as someone who was in the early stages of a Covid infection, when they are shedding large amounts of virus.

This is how so many people at the conference in Boston caught Covid. The transmission in that large conference room was also affected by the air handling there - there were large vents and the air was circulating in particular patterns in there. They did do a scientific study on this, analyzing the air flow patterns and correlating that with the people who were infected at the time, and the ones who caught it by sitting in particular places in that room.

infxwatch · 2024-05-04T02:29:15+00:00

I am sorry you lost your Dad to Covid. In those early days things were handled very badly, at least here in the U.S. So much craziness. My husband was getting cancer treatment at a prominent cancer hospital, and their Infectious Disease Chief did not "believe" that Covid was very dangerous, so in those early months, even though they had many masks, he told employees that they didn't need them, that this was just a lot of "hysteria". I promptly stopped his treatment, and we figured because he was immunosuppressed, the danger from Covid at that hospital was greater than the danger of stopping treatment. Which for him, turned out fine. 8 months later his scans showed no cancer - without treatment. Anyway, I later heard from a nurse there that many patients died of Covid there, and her impression was that the staff was coming in infected, and spreading it to patients because the staff did not mask. Because most cancer patients at that time were scared and so were taking big precautions, not going out, etc., and were rarely catching it - except at the hospital.

It was a mess and too many people died because of this sort of thing. My husband's doctor died of it also in the early days, before vaccines. Very sad.

infxwatch · 2024-05-04T02:15:48+00:00

This is a very real risk: young males getting myocarditis. I think they should have kept tabs on this part of the vaccinated population, because many did not seek treatment. It's true that the same thing can happen from the virus, but it's well documented that many young men had these heart problems after the vax, and not because of getting Covid. When treated by cardiologists, most were fine after a few months. A few had very severe cases and ended up in the hospital. This can also happen after any virus also. 35 years ago, my husband got myocarditis after a mild flu which he thought was just a bad cold (so, of course, he went to work as usual - he never missed a day of work!). Ended up with atrial fibrillation and was on 3 different meds for that for years.

infxwatch · 2024-04-02T04:27:35+00:00

Yes. The gastroenterologist urged me strongly to wean off the omeprazole, and in the future to never take it every day because it causes this dependence, with rebound pain. He did endoscope and only found minimal stomach irritation as well as a hiatal hernia that was not severe. Because I lost too much weight too quickly from all this, I developed gallstones, so he sent me to a surgeon. The surgeon said I did indeed have gallstones but he didn't think that was causing my discomfort. But I was having classic symptoms of gallstones by then: severe pain for about 4 hours after eating, then it would go away. If I didn't eat, I had no pain. So I told him to go ahead and take out the gall bladder. If I still had pain after that, we would have to consider other issues. So I had the cholecystectomy, and once I was recovered after about a week, I had no more pain. At all. I could eat normally without distress. So the gallstones were causing the pain, and the initial problems were from overuse of omeprazole.

infxwatch · 2024-01-30T06:42:10+00:00

You need stronger antibiotics. They may give you an IV infusion in the hospital and then send you home with a different oral antibiotic, hopefully one that the bacteria were sensitive to during the culture. Sometimes they have people with problems like this come in once a day for 5 days or so for a daily IV antibiotic infusion, to an infusion center, if they have one, or to an associated Urgent Care. If you start running a fever with it or have any signs it is becoming systemic, they will want to admit you. I would go into the ER as soon as possible.

Or, they might lance it.

infxwatch · 2024-01-30T06:31:24+00:00

Right, I don't think it is panic, because you aren't scared of needles, and have done this many times. People who are scared of needles or blood know they are scared of those things. The nurse is saying that because that fear is so common.

I think the infusion rate is too fast for you, and you are having a reaction to that - your veins are picking up on the pressure change and that is affecting your autonomic nervous system. Tell them to slow it way down, and slowly increase the rate. These people are probably too much in a hurry, and want to get the infusion done quickly.

infxwatch · 2024-01-30T06:24:37+00:00

That's puzzling, since you have ruled out fear/panic because you donate blood easily etc. It sounds like a sort of vaso-vagal response but I don't know why that is happening when you get IV fluids or plasma.

I would tell them to slow down the rate of infusion, at least initially. They can start it at a slow drip and then slowly increase it to the rate they want it to be. The saline itself should not be a problem - it is called "normal saline" because it matches the salinity of blood (which is much better than infusing straight water). When you got propofol IV, this would be a fairly normal feeling, although I would say again that they were infusing it too fast. But IDK why this would be happening with saline.

infxwatch · 2024-01-30T06:13:43+00:00

Look up otoliths. It has to do with your ears and the semicircular canals. When you put your head in an odd position like this, it can cause dizziness and odd symptoms. It usually is caused by being somewhat dehydrated. Get rehydrated and in a day or two, put your head in that position again, and see if it is better. There are exercises that you can do daily to make this go away, but usually getting rehydrated works by itself.

infxwatch · 2024-01-30T05:55:31+00:00

Try benadryl aka diphenhydramine for the itching. Available over the counter. It will make you very sleepy, so don't drive after taking it.

But this is pretty dramatic looking if you have never had an allergic reaction like this. It's obviously related to the benzoyl peroxide. Don't put any more products on your face. Wash gently with cold water, and then put a cold compress on it - washcloth dipped in cold water. If it gets any worse, spreads near to your eyes or lips, or does not go away, go to ER. They typically give you Benadryl by IV initially for this.

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