I have a bite on my leg and I have no idea what it is. PLEASE HELP!?!
Question: I have a bite on my leg and I have no idea what it is!. PLEASE HELP!!?
Last night I was waiting for a bus when my leg started to itch, no where abnormal, just above my knee to the right!.
It felt like a mossie bite as it was slightly painful and very itchy and slightly blotchy and red, but all my mossie bite are always like that!.
But today and last night when I got back, it had grown and was pretty big!.
Now, roughly a day after i saw it, its about 2 inches in diameter, quite hard, quite red and painful if you press it, like there is something flat underneath the skin and the skin is really tight!.
It is making walking and bending my knee a little painful but nothing that would stop me from doing anything!. Its just a little annoying the pain!.
I am really scared as I am very ceceptable to bites and I recently travelled to South Africa (Cape Town, Madikwe and Parys, i hope that spelling is right, area) and to Cambodia and Vietnam in October (Siem Reap, Phnom Phen, Ho Chi Min City and Hoi An)!. I am terrified, if you know what it is help!!! and quickly!Www@Answer-Health@Com
It felt like a mossie bite as it was slightly painful and very itchy and slightly blotchy and red, but all my mossie bite are always like that!.
But today and last night when I got back, it had grown and was pretty big!.
Now, roughly a day after i saw it, its about 2 inches in diameter, quite hard, quite red and painful if you press it, like there is something flat underneath the skin and the skin is really tight!.
It is making walking and bending my knee a little painful but nothing that would stop me from doing anything!. Its just a little annoying the pain!.
I am really scared as I am very ceceptable to bites and I recently travelled to South Africa (Cape Town, Madikwe and Parys, i hope that spelling is right, area) and to Cambodia and Vietnam in October (Siem Reap, Phnom Phen, Ho Chi Min City and Hoi An)!. I am terrified, if you know what it is help!!! and quickly!Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
It could be an MRSA staph infection!. I had this last summer and learned a lot!. It can be deadly and deaths from MRSA are surpassing aids deaths in the US!. This nasty bacteria sometimes masks itself as a spider bite!. Get yourself checked out and if there's pus in the bite, have a swab sent to a lab!. Also get them to swab the inside of your nose because this bacteria colognizes there!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Does is feel warm to the touch!? It could be a spider bite!? With a marker mark the outside edge of the redness!. If it has grown outside that mark by morning go to the doctor ASAPWww@Answer-Health@Com