Lump under arm-staph?!
Question: I had a very tender lump about the size of a golf ball removed from my under arm in Oct. The doctor said it was a type of staph bacteria that I probably got from a razor that travelled down a hair shaft into my underarm. Now I have another one and its about the size of the end of my pinkie. I am taking the anitbiotics he gave me from the last time along with vitamin e 3x a day, echinacia 3x a day, l-lysine 2 pills 3x a day, red clover 3x a day. Is there anything else I can do to keep from having to go through surgery again?
Answers: I had a very tender lump about the size of a golf ball removed from my under arm in Oct. The doctor said it was a type of staph bacteria that I probably got from a razor that travelled down a hair shaft into my underarm. Now I have another one and its about the size of the end of my pinkie. I am taking the anitbiotics he gave me from the last time along with vitamin e 3x a day, echinacia 3x a day, l-lysine 2 pills 3x a day, red clover 3x a day. Is there anything else I can do to keep from having to go through surgery again?
I would try an herbal pack of Plantain and Marsh-mellow herb, on the sore/lump and drink about 1 quart of the tea a day.
I have used it when I had a red line heading up my arm from an infected thumb, I saw the line receded within minutes. I have used it many times since with great results, I always soak or pack two or more times, and drink the tea at the same time.
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As it is a lymphatic gland I may also try mullein herb packs also, my dad had swollen glands in the neck that he used mullein, and the inflammation was half in one day, and gone within 5 days.
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you are taking antibiotics from the last time? which means you didn't finish them then... guess why you have another one, and I will bet it is resistant to the antibiotic you are taking now.
Suggest you fess up to the doc that you didn't finish the last prescribed number of antibiotics, and get a different one. Or you will likely end up having to have the same surgery again.
Doctors prescribe a certain number of antibiotics for a reason, and when you don't finish all of them, you don't completely kill the infection, and it has time to build resistance to the antibiotic.... next time, finish ALL the pills.