Question 1

i have serious jaw bone infection from no dental care available in uk  pain 24 7  where can i go had enough?

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Dentist: You need to see a dentist or oral surgeon right away. If an infection has spread into your jaw, it can become very serious very quickly. The risks are needing surgery to remove a portion of the diseased bone or spread into your blood, to your brain, or down into your throat and lungs. If you can't find a doctor, go to a hospital emergency department. This can be an emergency.

Question 2

could an impacted infected wisdom tooth cause a bone infection of the skull?

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It depends.: Simply being impacted may lead to pain but won't necessarily lead to infection, but if debris chronically accumulates around the gum near the tooth' it can then become infected.  If this happens, or it becomes infected for other reasons, then infection can spread to the adjacent bone of the skull.  It then becomes know as osteomyelitis.

Question 3

does periosteal reaction always mean bone infection? my son had a dirt bike accident.  he had two wounds.  one stitched with dirt still inside.  another puncture wound was noticed later.  about a month later the infection was bad, 3 bacteria involved, was

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Periosteal : Periosteal reaction may be from the blunt trauma or could be from infection. Wounds should be debrided and deep cultures taken. Infections with multiple bacterias should be treated aggressively and a consultation with an infectious diseases specialist should be sought.
Best of luck.

Question 4

i have a bone infection in my foot, and nasty yellow pus coming from top of foot. what can cause this?

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Osteomyelitis: Is an infection in the bone. If you are able to see pus coming from bone, i think you should be in the hospital being treated. Pus from bone needs to be drained properly. You should be on antibiotics as well. This is a serious problem which may require bone to be removed.

Question 5

could bactrim be effective for possible joint or bone infection? i had an x-ray taken (waiting on results) because i had some slight pain and swelling around the knuckle area last saturday. believed to be caused by a scratch?

Accepted Answer

: Based on these symptoms, it is very unlikely you have a bone or joint infection. If you do, Bactrim might be effective, but it depends on exactly what bacteria are causing it. If joint infection is confirmed, please consult with an infectious diseases specialist. Good luck.

Question 6

how would someone aquire a bone infection in the collarbone? would you have to break the collarbone to get a bone infection? could it happen for no reason? is it common in a 36 year old male? what are the symptoms?

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: Must be very rare never heard of it in 60+ years. If the infection is blood borne would not have to break it. Consider tuberculosis or rare fungus or STD or cancer metastasis to the area.   Discuss with his Dr.

Question 7

what, other than a bacterial infection, would cause an inch of bone to crumble? a bone infection was evident in an x-ray and mri following the straightening of a hammer-toe. upon removal of the surgical screw, approx. an inch of bone crumbled. the biopsy

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In : In the absence of infection, one of the causes of bone to "crumble" (i'm not sure what you mean by that term, but i'm assuming there is some kind of bone loss) is aseptic necrosis, where bone, well, rots, if the blood supply to that section of the bone is compromised.  Assuming this is the case here, such a compromise could have been the result of the surgery, tissue manipulation, or the screw used to fixate the area.  It's a rare complication of hammertoe surgery.

But i'm not convinced you really don't have an infection, as infection is a far more common complication following any surgery.  When the bone culture was performed, did they test for aerobic, anaerobic, acid fast and fungal organisms?  How was the piece of bone obtained for culture?  It's entirely possible the piece of bone that was obtained for culture was not a piece that was infected.  Also, if you were already taking antibiotics at the time of the culture, that, too, would explain the lack of any bacterial growth.  One of the hallmark signs of a bone infection is chronic swelling, although given you are post-op, this might not be a reliable sign.

A more specific test for infected bone like a white blood cell labeled nuclear scan is probably a reasonable way to go at this point.  A regular bone scan now would not be diagnostic, since any surgery within the past year would cause a regular bone scan to light up.

It might be a good idea to take an oral antibiotic for a couple of months, given the "clinical" diagnosis of a bone infection.  Modern oral antibiotics have been showed to achieve the same or even higher levels inside bone compared to IV antibiotics, which had always been the "gold standard" in treating bone infections.

Hope this helps.  Good luck.

Question 8

could i be in a lot of pain if i had a bone infection after tooth extraction?

Accepted Answer

Post op pain: It could be a dry socket or you may just be dealing with some aggressive post operative pain associated with the difficult extraction. Difficult teeth tend to require the removal of bone and require more healing time than erupted teeth. If its been over a week and there's still pain or more pain, contact your dental surgeon.

Question 9

i have a bone infection in my foot. could i die from it?

Accepted Answer

Not likely : Hopefully you are having it treated.

Question 10

my husband got a bone infection at the hospital. could it have been prevented?

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Hard to say: This is a good question but difficult to answer with any certainty. You see, bone infections can come in different ways. Sometimes a skin infection or ulcer gets deep enough that it gets into the bone. If that is the case, maybe it could have been treated and stopped before reaching the bone. Sometimes infection travels through the blood and settles into bone as well.

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I have a bone infection in my foot, and nasty yellow pus coming from top of foot. what can cause this?

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Could bactrim be effective for possible joint or bone infection? i had an x-ray taken (waiting on results) because i had some slight pain and swelling around the knuckle area last saturday. believed to be caused by a scratch?

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How would someone aquire a bone infection in the collarbone? would you have to break the collarbone to get a bone infection? could it happen for no reason? is it common in a 36 year old male? what are the symptoms?

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What, other than a bacterial infection, would cause an inch of bone to crumble? a bone infection was evident in an x-ray and mri following the straightening of a hammer-toe. upon removal of the surgical screw, approx. an inch of bone crumbled. the biopsy

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