Starr Just Bit Me Very Hard!!!

[ramanth]

Logan bit my right index finger and hand and his teeth penetrated right to the bone. I washed with antibacterial soap right away and soaked it in peroxide and drove straight to the ER. (After a frantic call to Moosmom )

Even with all the measures I took and getting a round of IV antibiotics, my finger and hand still became very infected. Had to have stronger IV antibotics every 6 hours.

I'm glad your hand is okay!!

[kimlovescats]

Tracy, I'm just now reading this but I am glad it wasn't more serious! Get feeling better soon!!!

[Anikaca77]

Tracy you did the right the by going to the doctors...when I was doing a cat rescue over this past summer I was moving a feral female cat from a cage to the cat carrier and she slipped away and I have to catch her very quickly and when I got her she bite down so hard on my hand and keep kicking me on my other arm until I was able to get her into the cat carrier. ( I was doing TNR with the cats). So anyway my mom was there and helped me clean up my bite marks and later the next day my hand was swollen and I had a red rash going up my arm slowly. So they needed to put me on antibotic and I didn't know when my last tetnus shot was so the gave me one of those too. I learned my lession very well after that moment. But the cat got fixed and released and now she's not spreading any babies at least.

I hope you are not too mad with Starr.

[krazyaboutkatz]

Thanks again everyone. I'm not mad at Starr I don't blame him at all. We'll both be fine but now due to the meds that we're both on, we both have diarrhea. I guess I must be on some very strong antibiotics because I've never had this kind of reaction before. I can't take any antidiarrhea meds either because it said that it might make things worse. I just hope that my system will be back to normal by Jan.2nd because I have to go back to work.

[shais_mom]

Oh Lordy I feel your pain
a couple years ago I was on 1000mg of Augmentin for 10 days -- HORSE PILLS!
I ended the script like on a Tuesday and even thru the weekend I was MISERABLE! with cramping, gas and diarrhea! And I was at a Bachlorette Party in Canada to boot! It was the PITTS! It was just something I had to go thru b/c of the strong antiobiotic but I've never forgotten it! I think I took a whole pack of anti-diarrheal pills and didn't even touch it!

{hugs}

[krazyaboutkatz]

Oh Lordy I feel your pain
a couple years ago I was on 1000mg of Augmentin for 10 days -- HORSE PILLS!
I ended the script like on a Tuesday and even thru the weekend I was MISERABLE! with cramping, gas and diarrhea! And I was at a Bachlorette Party in Canada to boot! It was the PITTS! It was just something I had to go thru b/c of the strong antiobiotic but I've never forgotten it! I think I took a whole pack of anti-diarrheal pills and didn't even touch it!

{hugs}

I'm on amoxicillin/k clav 875/125mg tablets and I take 2 pills a day and they are huge. It's the generic for augmentin.

[Grace]

Eat lots of yogurt. The antibiotics are killing off all the bacteria in your gut - good and bad. The yogurt will help bring the good ones back.