Thread: If your having surgery ask your Doctor about this. Infections and Chronic wounds

I had a TKR some years back and infection got in from a wound on the back of my leg which hadn't healed properly. I had a check by a doctor prior to the op. who reckoned it was OK although it still looked inflamed to me..... post op. my leg became very swollen and back I went into hospital with a constant drip feed of antibiotics and a compression bandage on.
I was in the hospital with that infection for a darn sight longer than for the operation itself.
Surgeon had painted my whole leg with an antibio stuff (forget the name) but that didn't stop what was already in there. Now I have to have the other knee done and they say that if there's any wounds at all on that leg they won't operate.
I'll have to be super careful as my skin splits so easily and I'm always getting "gardening wounds" up the arms and down the legs. Sounds like a good excuse for not doing anything. :O
AlanH.

My 2nd surgery was to add a bone graft to my broken tibia. An infection which put me back in hospital on Industrial antibiotics and either the infection or the Industrial antibiotics caused my Bone graft to fail. Love surgery that much I was back in for a third and was very lucky to try the stuff chatted about in the video and another one of there products. Australian Surgeons can use bactisure surgical lavage in Australian hospital and day surgeries now.

While rehab and in hospital for the infection I met several people with amputations and horrible outcomes due to infections. You would have to shoot me before I would have surgery again with out using it.

I managed to get hold of Blastx as well and my surgical wound on my leg closed in under a month. It took 3 months on both of the two prior operations in exactly the same spot.

Fully admit I am happily biased. Allowing poor sods who need surgery like I did to making a informed choice is why I shared.

Unfortunately most people have to go to hospital to get a flesh eating bacteria!

Originally Posted by RANDLOVER

Unfortunately most people have to go to hospital to get a flesh eating bacteria!

Diabetics are in the firing line as well. The studies on them are spectacular recovery V slow death for many with non healing wounds

I wonder if the Flesh eating one here in Victoria might be covered???? Must ask the Surgeon I see next week.

We are famous for it. I know two people who had a nice beach house to the south of here that had a Flesh eating wound which was a mongrel plus to fix.

Australia Has a Flesh-Eating-Bacteria Problem

In the beach towns south of Melbourne, everyone, it seems, knows someone who’s been attacked.




Australia Has a Flesh-Eating-Bacteria Problem - The Atlantic