I am allergic to mosquito and just about any other bug bites. But let me, for a second, explain the extent of my allergies, for some of you thinking, "Oh, I get kinda swollen..."
No. I am allergic in the sense that once, I got a mosquito bite on each shin. Eventually, the swelling encompassed each shin. I got a bite on my brow in kindergarten. I looked like Quasimodo. I realize these were bites when I was a kid and when I was not as strong, but I still get bad reactions like a beast. I get bit multiple times a year, but every few years it seems like, I'll get a bite or a set of bites that totally effs me up. About a year or two ago, I had a spider bite (multiple) on my left leg ankle, which became infected. The swelling reached from the top of my foot to about three inches from my knee. I had multiple puss bubbles and one was half the size of my thumb. I definately went to the doctors for that bitch and got steriods and antibiotics...
Now, I have three, count em, three bites on my right forearm. I believe I've had them since Saturday night and now they have grown and combined to form another super-bite, which now covers 1/3 of my forearm's entire surface area, and is still growing thanks to my cirrculatory system for pumping that shit through my blood.
I have Benedril ointment, but that just takes care of the itching, which isn't bothering me now/hasn't set in. I soak it in an Epsom salt solution, with hot water, which was perscribed to me by an RN.
I'm not here to show off my awesome immune system or anything, just looking for thoughts on this kind of thing, in both western and eastern medicine.
I know in TCM the bite is a site of fire, and adding fire would make it worse (I once rubbed monkey oil on my bites...BIG FRIGGIN MISTAKE), but how would one treat these things? What would one eat to help take care of the symptoms?
As for Western medicine, what were, say, the steriods for? To overcome the infection or reduce swelling? I assume they were anabolics but I could be wrong.
And as is the norm to prevent swelling, ice...wouldn't ice just prevent it for as long as it's there? More specifically, wouldn't the ice just prolong the inevitable? I am not always going to have an ice pack around, and when I'm doing things that make me warm, the effects would happen anyway...
I'm going to make an appointment tomorrow and hopefully my doc'll be able to answer some of my questions but I'd like to get as much input as possible from our more than qualified Russbo gang.
Thanks yall.
No. I am allergic in the sense that once, I got a mosquito bite on each shin. Eventually, the swelling encompassed each shin. I got a bite on my brow in kindergarten. I looked like Quasimodo. I realize these were bites when I was a kid and when I was not as strong, but I still get bad reactions like a beast. I get bit multiple times a year, but every few years it seems like, I'll get a bite or a set of bites that totally effs me up. About a year or two ago, I had a spider bite (multiple) on my left leg ankle, which became infected. The swelling reached from the top of my foot to about three inches from my knee. I had multiple puss bubbles and one was half the size of my thumb. I definately went to the doctors for that bitch and got steriods and antibiotics...
Now, I have three, count em, three bites on my right forearm. I believe I've had them since Saturday night and now they have grown and combined to form another super-bite, which now covers 1/3 of my forearm's entire surface area, and is still growing thanks to my cirrculatory system for pumping that shit through my blood.
I have Benedril ointment, but that just takes care of the itching, which isn't bothering me now/hasn't set in. I soak it in an Epsom salt solution, with hot water, which was perscribed to me by an RN.
I'm not here to show off my awesome immune system or anything, just looking for thoughts on this kind of thing, in both western and eastern medicine.
I know in TCM the bite is a site of fire, and adding fire would make it worse (I once rubbed monkey oil on my bites...BIG FRIGGIN MISTAKE), but how would one treat these things? What would one eat to help take care of the symptoms?
As for Western medicine, what were, say, the steriods for? To overcome the infection or reduce swelling? I assume they were anabolics but I could be wrong.
And as is the norm to prevent swelling, ice...wouldn't ice just prevent it for as long as it's there? More specifically, wouldn't the ice just prolong the inevitable? I am not always going to have an ice pack around, and when I'm doing things that make me warm, the effects would happen anyway...
I'm going to make an appointment tomorrow and hopefully my doc'll be able to answer some of my questions but I'd like to get as much input as possible from our more than qualified Russbo gang.
Thanks yall.
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