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Staff Infection
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Staph infections are bad news. If he needs daily injections, do it. This is not something to mess around with. There are some new superbugs out there and staph can be one of them. Some are resistant to most antibiotics and are getting harder to treat. Stay on course with this one.
I am not an herbalist, and can't help you there, but I AM an ER nurse, and can tell you not to mess around with this one.
I am not an herbalist, and can't help you there, but I AM an ER nurse, and can tell you not to mess around with this one.
Staph infection.... especially the resistant strains (MRSA and the fortunately still-very-rare VRSA (Methacillin resistant Staph Aureus and Vancomycin Resistant Staph Aureus, respectively) can be very dangerous.
When you say "in his elbow" do you mean it's a surface skin infection, a deeper infection in the soft tissues (cellulitis) or actually in the joint? Big difference, although one can progress into the other if not adequately treated...
If it's a skin infection, ALONG WITH the antibiotics, a soak may well help. I use this particular soak on all minor (and some not-quite- so-minor, along with antibiotics if we think they are needed) infections we see on the farm. When you work with animals, dirt and manure every day, and always sustain scratches, minor cuts and punctures... sooner or later, you get infections.
This soak WORKS, although I can't say for sure it works on staph... because we've never done a culture to find out what it is we are treating, specifically. My daughter developed a nasty infected ingrown toenail one time... naturally, like most of these things, it got worse over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, when getting medical care wasn't simple. It started out red and swollen, but by Sunday had progressed to being purple- black, shiny and really ugly. I put together this soak, but was going to take her to the ER Monday morning if there wasn't drastic improvement. After soaking it several times that evening, the next morning I was shocked... it was half the size it had been, the black color and shinyness was gone, and she said it didn't hurt at all anymore. We kept soaking it for a few more days, just to be sure it wouldn't return.
Since then, I've seen it work on nasty punctures and infections from thorns and wire cuts.
Anyway,...
I make a strong salt solution in HOT water (you want to use this as hot as you can stand, but not so hot that it burns tissues. It's probably best to start out "very warm" and then add a bit of hot water at a time to tolerance.)
I chop up fresh garlic (best, but we've used dried garlic chips in an emergency and it seemed to work) and add it to the salt water. Then I BARELY simmer it for about 10 minutes. Just before I remove it from the stove, I add a small handful of calendula petals (Pot Marigold flowers, Calendula officinalis). Once it's removed from the heat, I add either a handful of oregano or thyme leaves, or (preferably) 1/4 teaspoon essential oil of oregano or thyme.
Once it's cool enough to tolerate, soak the affected part for 10-15 minutes several times a day. If it's on a place on your body where you can't immerse it in a kettle or bowl, soak a clean washcloth or hand towel in the solution and apply it that way, renewing the solution on the towel frequently to keep it warm.
You can reuse the same soak solution several times (refrigerating it between times and then re-heating it) IF THERE IS NO DRAINAGE OR DISCHARGE from the infection site!
If there is, use as small an amount of soak as you can manage to immerse the infection into, and replace it with fresh each time.
If you can make colloidal silver, using it instead of plain water is an excellent idea.
Because staph can be contagious, be sure that everyone is being careful as far as washing hands frequently, etc, especially if this is an open surface infection.
Using echinacea orally for it's immune boosting properties wouldn't be a bad idea, either...
Good luck! And follow the doctor's instructions on this.. you definiitely want to beat it early.
Summerthyme
When you say "in his elbow" do you mean it's a surface skin infection, a deeper infection in the soft tissues (cellulitis) or actually in the joint? Big difference, although one can progress into the other if not adequately treated...
If it's a skin infection, ALONG WITH the antibiotics, a soak may well help. I use this particular soak on all minor (and some not-quite- so-minor, along with antibiotics if we think they are needed) infections we see on the farm. When you work with animals, dirt and manure every day, and always sustain scratches, minor cuts and punctures... sooner or later, you get infections.
This soak WORKS, although I can't say for sure it works on staph... because we've never done a culture to find out what it is we are treating, specifically. My daughter developed a nasty infected ingrown toenail one time... naturally, like most of these things, it got worse over the Memorial Day holiday weekend, when getting medical care wasn't simple. It started out red and swollen, but by Sunday had progressed to being purple- black, shiny and really ugly. I put together this soak, but was going to take her to the ER Monday morning if there wasn't drastic improvement. After soaking it several times that evening, the next morning I was shocked... it was half the size it had been, the black color and shinyness was gone, and she said it didn't hurt at all anymore. We kept soaking it for a few more days, just to be sure it wouldn't return.
Since then, I've seen it work on nasty punctures and infections from thorns and wire cuts.
Anyway,...
I make a strong salt solution in HOT water (you want to use this as hot as you can stand, but not so hot that it burns tissues. It's probably best to start out "very warm" and then add a bit of hot water at a time to tolerance.)
I chop up fresh garlic (best, but we've used dried garlic chips in an emergency and it seemed to work) and add it to the salt water. Then I BARELY simmer it for about 10 minutes. Just before I remove it from the stove, I add a small handful of calendula petals (Pot Marigold flowers, Calendula officinalis). Once it's removed from the heat, I add either a handful of oregano or thyme leaves, or (preferably) 1/4 teaspoon essential oil of oregano or thyme.
Once it's cool enough to tolerate, soak the affected part for 10-15 minutes several times a day. If it's on a place on your body where you can't immerse it in a kettle or bowl, soak a clean washcloth or hand towel in the solution and apply it that way, renewing the solution on the towel frequently to keep it warm.
You can reuse the same soak solution several times (refrigerating it between times and then re-heating it) IF THERE IS NO DRAINAGE OR DISCHARGE from the infection site!
If there is, use as small an amount of soak as you can manage to immerse the infection into, and replace it with fresh each time.
If you can make colloidal silver, using it instead of plain water is an excellent idea.
Because staph can be contagious, be sure that everyone is being careful as far as washing hands frequently, etc, especially if this is an open surface infection.
Using echinacea orally for it's immune boosting properties wouldn't be a bad idea, either...
Good luck! And follow the doctor's instructions on this.. you definiitely want to beat it early.
Summerthyme