
Originally Posted by
ecivon
Where to begin ... If you are doing iv antibiotics then you have been diagnosed with a mighty serious infection. If you have a pic line installed it is to protect your heart from peritonitis and you need to take it more serious. An infection can lodge in any part of your body and cause mind-boggling complications including coma and death. If your iv is just into your arm then you still have an infection that has been diagnosed as extremely serious. Infections come in two types: MSSA and MRSA. And both have extremely high mortality rates even with treatment -- over 40% die. It is very easy for an infection to get to that stage, which they must think it is if they installed an iv line. Why would you want to risk your infection getting to that point by injecting anything prior to your getting your infection cleared up? With all due respects man seems a little misguided.