Sterile abcess

[Quester]

Urgent care is cheaper. No, don't heat it. They might drain it which, would be better than if you do it because they will take a sample and test it for pathogens. These tests determine if it is a gram - or + bacteria, a virus or something else. They will have no reason, and they will not, test it to determine the substance. If you don't go to the ER/Urgent care, keep the vial in case it gets worse so that they can identify the pathogen.
You probably do this anyway but always use sterile techniques. The pathogen may not have come from the vial but, don't use that vial again.
If your shooting IM, then go in a 90 degrees and do it right, next time.
Just go to the medical facility and get it done so that you can move forward.

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Urgent care is cheaper. No, don't heat it. They might drain it which, would be better than if you do it because they will take a sample and test it for pathogens. These tests determine if it is a gram - or + bacteria, a virus or something else. They will have no reason, and they will not, test it to determine the substance. If you don't go to the ER/Urgent care, keep the vial in case it gets worse so that they can identify the pathogen.
You probably do this anyway but always use sterile techniques. The pathogen may not have come from the vial but, don't use that vial again.
If your shooting IM, then go in a 90 degrees and do it right, next time.
Just go to the medical facility and get it done so that you can move forward.

You doctor types need to go council the veterinarians around here.
Every vet I have ever met will mix tetracycline and penicillin together. As a general rule my brother said you do not mix gram positive and gram negative antibiotics. He actually hasnt been proven wrong.
Yes broad spectrum can fight certain bacteria of both but every synergistic experiment I have seen failed when using gram pos and gram neg specific antibiotics in cooperation.

I watched him scream at a vet for mixing tetracycline and pennicillin in the same bull in the early 2000's (both gram-) because they counteract . I was stunned as was the vet because we both were dumb on the subject.

I have always been curious whether he was right about his firm belief in no mixing of opposite gram specific antibiotics. Bovine medicine was his specific though. He could make a dead calf walk long enough to sell it. Absolute genius when it came to cattle medicine.