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Well, that’s kind of freaky.
A woman on a gardening group based in Australia posted a photo of her finger which had a splinter/thorn fragment from a rose in it. She was talking about how it had been like this for a few weeks and was just starting to go down and she'd do one of her granny's old remedies...
The number of people who promptly recommended 'black salve' or 'magnoplast' for a splinter-based swelling that had been there a few weeks is horrific. Seriously, people, this may be an 'earth gardeners' group, but we are not antivaxxers! A healthy diet/lifestyle and herbal remedies are an okay first defence if you've got a solid baseline system.
But when it's been swollen for SEVERAL WEEKS then hie thee to a doctor and get them to look at it, get out what they can, and dose you up with antibiotics before you lose that nail! Also, we live in Australia, so the GP visit will, at the least, be subsidised. (At my local GP, it would be completely paid for.)
I only hopethat she takes the advice several of us have given her not to use drawing pastes or any granny remedies at this stage, but to go straight to the doctor. Seriously. Drawing pastes and granny remedies should have been applied in the days after. if you’re doing it now, it’s too late. DOCTOR. FFS.
People.
(Weirdly, I only learned what 'black paste' last night when a friend commented on one of those FB groups that basically tear apart the antivaxxer/anti-modernmedicine crowd posts. An elderly man was being ‘treated’ with “black paste” for a lump on his head, and the person doing the treating was all “he can’t go to a hospital here in Australia, does anyone on this antivaxx/antimed group have advice?” The general consensus was that this constitutes elder abuse and needs to be reported, and the reason the ‘in Australia’ qualification was necessary is because they can sell black salve in Australia but you’re not supposed to advertise or use it as a cancer/swelling treatment. But mostly elder abuse.)
A woman on a gardening group based in Australia posted a photo of her finger which had a splinter/thorn fragment from a rose in it. She was talking about how it had been like this for a few weeks and was just starting to go down and she'd do one of her granny's old remedies...
The number of people who promptly recommended 'black salve' or 'magnoplast' for a splinter-based swelling that had been there a few weeks is horrific. Seriously, people, this may be an 'earth gardeners' group, but we are not antivaxxers! A healthy diet/lifestyle and herbal remedies are an okay first defence if you've got a solid baseline system.
But when it's been swollen for SEVERAL WEEKS then hie thee to a doctor and get them to look at it, get out what they can, and dose you up with antibiotics before you lose that nail! Also, we live in Australia, so the GP visit will, at the least, be subsidised. (At my local GP, it would be completely paid for.)
I only hopethat she takes the advice several of us have given her not to use drawing pastes or any granny remedies at this stage, but to go straight to the doctor. Seriously. Drawing pastes and granny remedies should have been applied in the days after. if you’re doing it now, it’s too late. DOCTOR. FFS.
People.
(Weirdly, I only learned what 'black paste' last night when a friend commented on one of those FB groups that basically tear apart the antivaxxer/anti-modernmedicine crowd posts. An elderly man was being ‘treated’ with “black paste” for a lump on his head, and the person doing the treating was all “he can’t go to a hospital here in Australia, does anyone on this antivaxx/antimed group have advice?” The general consensus was that this constitutes elder abuse and needs to be reported, and the reason the ‘in Australia’ qualification was necessary is because they can sell black salve in Australia but you’re not supposed to advertise or use it as a cancer/swelling treatment. But mostly elder abuse.)
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Ugh.
I understand,
a) Sometimes it is difficult/impossible to see a Dr due to limits like exhaustion from illness[1], transport restrictions, childcare, not being able to get time off work without being fired;
b) Sometimes money is a barrier [whether the cost of the Dr; or the cost of unpaid-time-off-work meaning that you can't pay the rent];
but absent these restrictions, I really don't understand not going.
[1] I, and many other chronically ill people, have not seen Drs when we probably should have because we were too ill/exhausted to be able to travel to the Dr and sit in the waiting room for an hour.