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Only laboratory tests can determine that. You should trust this decision to the health care professional who is treating your leg, as long as they have taken, or ordered a lab to take, samples of the pus for lab cultures to determine exactly what bacteria is causing the infection. You should not be taking the wrong antibiotic, which would be the ones that can not kill your bacteria. That can only be determined with lab tests. Unless that is known, then the correct antibiotic may not have been prescribed.
If lab cultures have not been done, or if they were done and you are taking antibiotics but are continuing to see an increase in pus or other symptoms of infection, you should see a doctor for retesting to be sure the right antibiotics are being used. If you have not reported the pus to your doctor, then you should immediately.
The only reasons antibiotics of certain kinds should not be ordered to treat your leg would be that you need a different kind for the exact bacteria causing your infection (so lab cultures are needed), or if you are allergic to the one ordered, or if you have some other medication or condition that makes the preferred antibiotic unsafe to be used at the same time. An infectious disease specialist may need to consult on your care.
There are many factors to be considered. If you are not yet under the care of a doctor for this condition, you should be right away. Infections of the extremities can be very serious and hard to heal, especially in people with Diabetes or a heart or kidney condition, or circulatory/blood vessel disease. It might be that a specialist doctor, like an infectious disease specialist or a wound care specialist, may be needed.
The presence of pus means that your body's immune system is battling the infection and is winning some battles, but the right antibiotics will help your body win the war faster.
Bottom line:
See a doctor if you have not, or report the pus and other symptoms to the one you have seen if you have not yet told them about it. Be sure cultures are taken for a lab to determine what antibiotic is right for the germ causing your infection, learn how to clean and care for the infection and wound, find out how to prevent spreading it to other places in your body or to other people. Take the antibiotics exactly as prescribed and don't stop taking them until all the medicine is gone. If you get a fever over 101 F. (38.33 C.), especially while on antibiotics, or if you get chills or vomiting or more new symptoms including hardness of the leg, increased swelling, or redness or other discoloration in your foot or leg, increased pus, or streaks in the leg, then get urgent care by a professional.
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What is moist glandular oozing?
Pus
How do you use fester in a sentence by using pus?
The wound had begun to fester, as indicated by the pus oozing out of it.
What does pustular and malodorous mean?
It means that a wound stinks and is oozing pus.
What if a scratch starts oozing pus?
it's probably infected. see a doctor.
Rash in abdomen pain puss?
If you have a skin rash that is oozing pus, this lesion is infected and will need either oral or topical antibiotics. Please see your physician so that he/she will be able to provide a definitive diagnosis and therapeutic regimen.
What causes the flow of pus from the ear?
There should be no pus coming from your ears. If it is in fact pus (and not just the fluid that normally comes out and coagulates into the crusties you wake up with) you need to go see a professional piercer about it immediately.
What to do about large pus filled growth?
Pus filled cavities are called abscesses and are treated with surgical drainage of the pus and antibiotics.
What makes a little kittens leg swell up with pus?
There is an infection of some kind, probably would have gotten in through a scratch or a thorn in the kitten's leg. If there is so much pus and inflammation that the whole leg is swollen, you need to get the kitten to a vet immediately as an infection this severe is endangering its life. It will need antibiotics, and if the infection is very bad it may even need to stay at the vet's.
Why is your lower wisdom tooth oozing?
They need to be extracted, your jawline does not have enough room for your wisdom teeth and therefore behind your wisdom teeth, food is getting trapped and pus is oozing. Go to the dentist soon.
What drugs can be used to reduce or get rid of pus cells?
Pus is caused from an infection, so antibiotics would be used to treat the infection, which would clear up the pus, as well.
Which ointment is good for pus in nipple?
If you have a infection you will need antibiotics. Speak to your doctor.
Will beach water effect a 1 week old tattoo?
Not if the tattoo is healing normally e.g. no pus, oozing, or broken skin. If your tattoo IS looking sore, don't risk it until it has completely healed. Not if the tattoo is healing normally e.g. no pus, oozing, or broken skin. If your tattoo IS looking sore, don't risk it until it has completely healed.
