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Originally Posted by mrsD
Symptoms of the flu:
http://www.flufacts.com/know/symptom...uFACTS%20Broad
The flu often has sore throat and or/ stomach ache.
The aching muscles are typically felt severely in the back and legs.
An infection in the foot/ or blood/ typically does not have the runny nose/ sore throat/coughing the flu brings. A high fever however, may make a person weak, and sore all over.
Check for Alan's foot: redness spreading up, swelling, throbbing, or red streaks on the lower legs. Redness and/or swelling suggests cellulitis. The red streaks suggest infection getting into the blood stream.
Most blisters have only clear fluid in them. Blood and pus? That is more serious IMO. A blood test for CBC differential would show if this is a serious infection.
People with psoriasis, often show slightly different skin responses to injury. My husband tends to make blisters easily...but they never have blood in them or pus. (only clear fluid). |
Alan's foot had NO red streaks, tenderness, hotness, swollen this, or that. He had nothing.
He also since Friday when he began the fever, acted like he was hit with a truck. Just slept all day. And because I had checked his foot the day before and saw NOTHING, well this thing had to have developed after (or it was developing????)
No sore throat, no stomach ache .
I just asked Alan if you had any muscle spasms and he said "Well, right before you lanced my foot, I had a muscle spasm in my calf"
Since then, NO FEVER, HE'S FINE, his urine is clear, no body aches, no headache no nothing.
He just said to me 'I feel perfectly fine".
so we shall be leaving for the podiatrist soon and I'll update later.
thanks VERY much
melody
P.S. I have to add that the blister was not coming out of the foot ulcer area, it was adjacent to it. He had formed a callus around the foot ulcer (he always has this and the doctor debrides it whenever we go) But right NEXT to the ulcer is where this thing was growing. I wonder if it's connected to the foot ulcer. Will update