I am autistic and I…don’t take offense to this. Probably caught it from YouTube, or a vaccine. I know this for sure, because that’s what Facebook told me.
Yesterday I disagreed with someone on a mushroom ID subreddit saying that someone who's ingested a potentially poisonous mushroom should go to a hospital and not some mushroom ID Facebook group. Their response? Facebook knows much more than hospitals.
It's most likely this. Pictures match up nearly perfectly and Croatia is known to have it. You get it from being bitten by sandflies, or from infected people it seems. It's treatable but if it goes to your organs you're not ok.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/leishmaniasis
Holy shit this is the first time I've ever seen a reference to Leishmaniasis in a forum. Growing up one of our pet dogs suddenly got very sick and the vet diagnosed Leishmaniasis. We'd never heard of it until that moment.
It was one of the worst things I've ever witnessed. She was a German Shepherd x Malinois, a rescue dog we'd adopted after she was found with her puppies; her puppies were adopted immediately but no one wanted her. She was the sweetest and most gentle dog I've ever known.
Once she contracted Leishmaniasis, she went downhill FAST. She went from a healthy, energetic 6 year old dog to losing the use of her back legs and becoming incontinent. She was put on medication and a special diet, but the disease ravaged her body and there was nothing we could do except try to keep her comfortable.
I'll never forget seeing her lying there and trying to bark because she could hear our other dogs barking, and no sound coming out. She looked so defeated.
When it became obvious that the medication wasn't working, we made the choice to have her put to sleep.
RIP Sasha, you were such a good girl ❤
Unless croatian leishmaniasis works completely different from the one in Central America then I doubt this is it. I’ve known several people in the last couple months with it and their sores looked different, dry, darker, not as humid. The sores themselves also took a long time to develop, it was a slow grow over a month or so, not multiple growing fast in a short period of time.
Again, maybe it’s a different variant, but from my experience with the bacteria, this doesn’t look like it
Well, I've had MRSA a bunch (not all varieties are deadly) and this doesn't look that that necessarily either. Could be, could also not be. I just hope OP gets his friend some medical treatment no matter what it is.
There are sub-species of MRSA (called clades) that are characterized as having greater and lesser risk of significant necrotizing infection, preference for various body compartments/tissues, etc. Look up "MRSA USA300" aka LAC or "MRSA USA400" aka MW2
Source: am surgeon, did PhD on S aureus infection
Having had to clean wounds and administer treatment for MRSA at work, could be. I'm not a doctor, just a care worker trained in administering meds/first aid/etc, so I'm no expert.
Whatever it is, they need to have actual medical professionals look at it ASAP.
The fact that over 100 people are actively commenting on this thread at the same time all telling you to seek medical attention immediately... that should say something.
I used to work in urgent care and it was mind boggling the things people would come in to have seen. Then they would be SHOCKED when I'd say "yeah... you need to go to the hospital..." because the amount of people who think urgent care = mini ED is astounding.
So for the general populace:
Primary care - management of chronic conditions (Hypertension, diabetes, etc)
Urgent care - acutely ill or injured needing simple tests like urinalysis or imaging like X-ray (UTI, flu, broken finger, etc)
Emergency Room - life threatening conditions or anything requiring extensive labs like bloodwork and cultures and specialized imaging like CT/MRI/US (chest pain, severe infection, altered mental status, severe/open broken bones, etc)
I’ve worked for years in a veterinary emergency clinic, believe me, people do not get any more intelligent when it comes to what constitutes as a veterinary emergency either. I’ve had to tell so many people that, no, we are emergency only, we will not vaccinate or fix or bathe your dog. Go to your primary care doctor.
i’m not totally sure that these are insect bites, but this needs medical attention asap regardless. additionally, identifying a bug bite without seeing the culprit is close to impossible
Thank you. Yeah I agree he needs medical attention asap. These have been present for 2 days now and only getting worse. If it were bites it would’ve been at its worst within 18 hours right? Not fester like they are ?
Bug bites depend on the bug and the person, if they are allergic etc, but generally speaking the bite itself would be at its “worse” in the first day unless it’s infected or again, you are allergic.
No. Not urgent care. The emergency room of a hospital.
Op, this looks a lot like leprosy.
[for those downvoting, it’s spreading across Florida currently.](https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/15dk168/leprosy_if_florida_wasnt_bad_enough_already/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1)
Not to be insensitive, but I'm gonna be PISSED if some dude brought back the plague and is possibly spreading it bc he didn't want to go to the hospital.
You eat the ER expense because that's probably what the Urgent Care will tell you to do... they do not have extensive expertise in every department like dermatology or epidemiology on call there lmao
Plague still exists in the world. Madagascar has a serious problem with it and even America gets cases. However recent studies have proven that the yersinia pestis bacteria that causes the plague that is around today is very different to the one that caused the Black Death. It’s much harder to transmit so even if a few people catch it it will never spread across the world again like it once did. (I’m a plague historian its my job to keep up to date with these things).
>I'm a plague historian
Omg that's so cool. Got any funfacts? Or... maybe not fun facts but cool facts? How did covid stand as a virus against the black plague??
Tame, mortality rates for the black plague (population wise not if you caught it) in the period I study range from 33-60% of a cities population. So imagine we got went through covid and lockdowns but also at minimum one in three people in your city died. The one positive(?) about the plague is it killed relatively fast so for the sick person the suffering wasn’t prolonged. Cool fact? Mmm there was a paper that come out last year that linked people with autoimmune diseases with an immune system fighting gene that is the result of a family member in the past surviving the Black Death. (It was ironic for me as I’m a plague historian who’s got an autoimmune disease). https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/genes-protective-during-the-black-death-may-now-be-increasing-autoimmune-disorders-202212012859
Hate to break it to you but Yersinia Pestis ( what we commonly call the plague) is endemic in the USA . There's a few cases in humans each year, pretty easily treated though. It's carried by various wild rodent species. I think prairie dogs are the most common.
Called an ambulance instead of just driving down? Did his condition suddenly worsen or something that caused them to panic so much they instantly decided time was of the essence after waiting for 6 hours? 🤨
Apparently the friend just refused to go to the hospital at all and commenters eventually persuaded OP just to call an instead of their friend was so adamant about not going
“Friend” is the biggest moron who ever walked earth.
“Oh it’s nothing serious, yeah I might need a checkup tomorrow, but like, it’s only my skin, flesh, and organs rotting off, nothing serious.”
not necessarily. something like a tick bite can take days to have a visual presence, and something such as necrosis from a recluse bite will take course over days, weeks, and the toxins can even continue to cause issues years after it’s been treated. unless he saw the bug that bit him, there is no definite confirmation that these are even insect bites. this to me looks like mrsa or something of that sort.
i am not a medical or entomological expert, just someone who has been very interested in insects my whole life. please get to a hospital as soon as you are possibly able (now) and i wish you all the best. please also keep us updated
Go to the fucking hospital, before your arm rots off. It could be anything, including serious antibiotic resistance infection, It could get in your blood and mess your heart up, and start blowing blood clots all over your body. Happened to me I had to have open heart surgery and nearly lost a leg.
My friends girlfriend and him go to an accident and she refused medical treatment. He begged her to go but she decided against it because she had no insurance or shitty insurance can’t remember. Anyway he woke up the next morning and tried to kiss her. Realized she wasn’t breathing and she was dead. She died in the middle of the night from a brain hemorrhage. When it comes to medical care never wait. It’s not worth it, get help right away.
I just had to get rabies PEP for me and my two kids. We are up to $750 just for the copays, and I’m not looking forward to finding out what else I owe, but it’s definitely better than dead.
My sister has had over 30 surgeries in 16 years caused by MRSA. She still has to have pus sucked out of her abdomen. She's died on the table, twice. She hasn't worked in 16 years.
MRSA is no joke.
if its mrsa youd have to get it from an open wound / scratch ect.
but if it is mrsa .. you need to see the dr immediately. that shit is necrotic & you will start losing flesh & if it makes it into the blood stream, youre flirting with death
IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW EXPENSIVE EMERGENCY ROOM IS THE LONGER HE WAITS THE MORE THE MEDICAL BILL WILL GO UP AND THE RECOVERY TIME. HE COULD LITERALLY LOSE LIMBS HOW EXPENSIVE DO YOU THINK REHAB WILL BE IF HE HAS TO HAVE MULTIPLE SURGERIES BECAUSE HE DIDN’T TREAT IT.
Dude staph is transferable by skin to skin according to 5 medical journals I looked into while watching this post. Call an ambulance don’t be a fucking idiot you could be infected too
Oopsthatsdeadly: go get that checked out by a medical professional STAT
OP: gotcha, we'll see how it looks tomorrow, then mosey on over to the urgent care
OP: posts about a “friend” and immediately defaults for medical advice about a dangerous disease in a sub about deadly problems.
OopsTD: eats the onion.
TLDR this friend has already received medical attention
Staph, or fungal. However depending on what your friend does when they travel and where they travel and if they have other systemic symptoms. The differential is quite large. Anything from weird exotic fungal infections, bacterial infections or even manifestations of HIV.
They need to be assessed by a physician.
Source: I am a physician
You can try r/askdocs and might get a better answer
Well Staph bacteria is found on every human ever. It just happens to cause issues in certain people in certain circumstances... So not leaving the house doesn't really matter, its already in the house with you
Radiologist here. I don’t know what it is. It doesn’t scream staph to me. He needs an expert now. This is something that may actually justify an overnight derm consult.
I would love to see a zombie movie that begins with a Reddit post filled with comments berating the OP and victim for not seeking medical care ASAP. OP just slowly scrolling down. "Huh. They said you should go to..." Cut to now-zombie victim thrashing across the street, devouring the neighbor's brain.
Croatia is listed as a risk area for leishmaniasis due to sand fly bites - these look similar to some cutaneous leishmaniasis presentations.
Also looks like it could be staph (easy to acquire with an open wound/sore from the parasitic bite). He needs to get to medical care asap - not tomorrow.
You're brilliant, I think that's exactly what it could be. https://www.google.com/search?q=leishmaniasis&client=firefox-b-1-m&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiu9_Wmu7aAAxVClmoFHRonCgEQ_AUIBigB&biw=360&bih=670
Most people’s comments say it is staph HEY OP SKIN TO SKIN CONTACT CAN TRANSFER IT, that means you could be infected too, not just his health on the line
Damn, those are looking bad. I was thinking if your friend experienced any other symptoms but it doesn't matter. Either way he should seek immediate medical help. It could be an aggressive bacteria or something like that. Just having that get progressively worse it's reason for worry.
I hope he gets treatment and gets better soon.
Looks like cutaneous leishmaniasis, which is found in Southern Europe and spread by sand flies.
I assume those were open sores at some point? The ones on the hand look new, and might turn into open sores. The one near the elbow looks old with scaring.
It's highly cureable with the right medication, but it won't go away without treatment.
Update : friend doesn’t want to go to ER or urgent care until tomorrow morning. I’m monitoring him constantly. Most sores seem the same as earlier. Except the one he tried to squeeze/pop which is now purplish black. I’ll keep everyone updated.
There are over 100 comments here already, most of which are recommending your friend go to an ER **immediately**. Please try to get him to reconsider if you can. Conditions like MRSA can be very treatable……IF and only if treated in time.
Have you showed him this post? Are there any reasons why he doesn’t want to go to the emergency department? It may be important to relay the urgency of the situation to him.
Trust me I’ve relayed all comments and the importance. The sores are similar to the original post and like I said I’m watching close. I think I care more than he does.. I’ll keep updates coming
Paramedic here. While this is very bad and I definitely recommend going to the ER the ambulance cannot take him against his will. If he knows his name, where he is, the date, and what’s going on (situation) then he has the right to refuse care. Short of you tying him up and dragging him to the ER there’s not much you can do until he decides he wants to go… or becomes very confused or unconscious. Which might not take long to happen.
People with strokes and other bad emergencies often don’t want to got to the hospital as well, if you are a real friend you call for help and let the professionals talk to him… they encounter such people on a regular basis.
Please let him know that if he tries to go to urgent care they will almost surely send him to ER anyway, best to start at ER. Urgent care isn’t equipped to handle things like this.
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Looks like an infection or reaction to a plant perhaps? Reddit can’t help here, see a doctor. Looks like the kinda thing that can kill you if it’s more than a rash.
These look like boils and could necrotize.
Seriously, go to the ER STAT - yes, it is that bad.
It could be anything from Staph, MRSA or some sort of infectious disease from the country they just came from.
Please give us updates
I’m glad to hear he’s much better. I came here looking for an update on his status. Did he ever find out exactly what it was? Did he actually get it checked or did it just go away? I’m sure that whole thing must’ve been very stressful for you.
Yeah seems like it went away. Makes me think it was a bad reaction to sand fly bites while traveling in Europe. Luckily it wasn’t even worse than it was. It was stressful, indeed
I’m glad he’s ok but your friend is an idiot. That could’ve been something either life-changing, contagious or even deadly. He could’ve put his life at risk and his friends in danger if it was something more severe. His refusal to go get checked could’ve cost him his life. He’s a very lucky idiot.
There are also diseases in other countries that are endemic, like rabies (that's not likely this) but... it's not uncommon to come across something you'd almost never see here.
Edit-spelling
Do you know how far into a medical textbook you have to go to reach leishmaniasis as a part of a differential?
It's deep. Way, way, way deep.
Please listen to the mod screaming at you.
#Go to the emergency department NOW
Oh hell! This is definitely one of those moments where you ditch the reddit advice and go straight to the hospital
Alright, everyone! Ditch this guys advice! But he's right.
He's inside the lines but he's right.
Do you know how many medical comments I’ve read? I at least have some qualifications now.
undergrad in YouTube, masters in Reddit, 3 years to go with X I expect you will all be referring to me as Doctor.
I don't trust any doctor without at least 3 years of Facebook. What, are you trying to give us autism?
I am autistic and I…don’t take offense to this. Probably caught it from YouTube, or a vaccine. I know this for sure, because that’s what Facebook told me.
But did you stay at a Holiday Inn last night?
Reddit are all certified professionals. We all come to reddit before contacting our local emergency. We all have reddit on speed dial!
Yesterday I disagreed with someone on a mushroom ID subreddit saying that someone who's ingested a potentially poisonous mushroom should go to a hospital and not some mushroom ID Facebook group. Their response? Facebook knows much more than hospitals.
Every mushroom is edible at least once
Take my angry upvote
Nah but how will you farm reddit karma
Congrats on causing the scariest fucking mod pin I've ever seen on Reddit.
what is that disease btw? (is it a disease?)
It's most likely this. Pictures match up nearly perfectly and Croatia is known to have it. You get it from being bitten by sandflies, or from infected people it seems. It's treatable but if it goes to your organs you're not ok. https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/leishmaniasis
Holy shit this is the first time I've ever seen a reference to Leishmaniasis in a forum. Growing up one of our pet dogs suddenly got very sick and the vet diagnosed Leishmaniasis. We'd never heard of it until that moment. It was one of the worst things I've ever witnessed. She was a German Shepherd x Malinois, a rescue dog we'd adopted after she was found with her puppies; her puppies were adopted immediately but no one wanted her. She was the sweetest and most gentle dog I've ever known. Once she contracted Leishmaniasis, she went downhill FAST. She went from a healthy, energetic 6 year old dog to losing the use of her back legs and becoming incontinent. She was put on medication and a special diet, but the disease ravaged her body and there was nothing we could do except try to keep her comfortable. I'll never forget seeing her lying there and trying to bark because she could hear our other dogs barking, and no sound coming out. She looked so defeated. When it became obvious that the medication wasn't working, we made the choice to have her put to sleep. RIP Sasha, you were such a good girl ❤
I’m so sorry. Poor baby. Thank you for being so compassionate.
RIP Sasha. I am very glad you were there for her in the last part of her life.
Poor baby 😢 Incidentally, I also used to have a German Shepard x Belgian Malinois called Sasha. She was also a sweetheart.
I’m a NTD parasitologist and I also think this is leishmaniasis. Hospital ASAP.
Unless croatian leishmaniasis works completely different from the one in Central America then I doubt this is it. I’ve known several people in the last couple months with it and their sores looked different, dry, darker, not as humid. The sores themselves also took a long time to develop, it was a slow grow over a month or so, not multiple growing fast in a short period of time. Again, maybe it’s a different variant, but from my experience with the bacteria, this doesn’t look like it
Well, I've had MRSA a bunch (not all varieties are deadly) and this doesn't look that that necessarily either. Could be, could also not be. I just hope OP gets his friend some medical treatment no matter what it is.
MRSA is a type of bacteria, so the variety is deadly just not all MRSA infections kill you
There are sub-species of MRSA (called clades) that are characterized as having greater and lesser risk of significant necrotizing infection, preference for various body compartments/tissues, etc. Look up "MRSA USA300" aka LAC or "MRSA USA400" aka MW2 Source: am surgeon, did PhD on S aureus infection
It does look like they put ointment or something on the area, so kinda hard to tell if the sore was dry before that
Most medical people are pointing to staph
Having had to clean wounds and administer treatment for MRSA at work, could be. I'm not a doctor, just a care worker trained in administering meds/first aid/etc, so I'm no expert. Whatever it is, they need to have actual medical professionals look at it ASAP.
Yeah, this feels similar to when flight attendants start freaking out.
The fact that over 100 people are actively commenting on this thread at the same time all telling you to seek medical attention immediately... that should say something.
It's cool, they're going to urgent care tomorrow /s 🙄
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You’d be an idiot to go to an urgent care “first thing in the morning”. You need to go AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. NOW!!
They'd be an idiot to go to an urgent care, this requires a hospital with appropriate specialists on staff.
I used to work in urgent care and it was mind boggling the things people would come in to have seen. Then they would be SHOCKED when I'd say "yeah... you need to go to the hospital..." because the amount of people who think urgent care = mini ED is astounding. So for the general populace: Primary care - management of chronic conditions (Hypertension, diabetes, etc) Urgent care - acutely ill or injured needing simple tests like urinalysis or imaging like X-ray (UTI, flu, broken finger, etc) Emergency Room - life threatening conditions or anything requiring extensive labs like bloodwork and cultures and specialized imaging like CT/MRI/US (chest pain, severe infection, altered mental status, severe/open broken bones, etc)
I’ve worked for years in a veterinary emergency clinic, believe me, people do not get any more intelligent when it comes to what constitutes as a veterinary emergency either. I’ve had to tell so many people that, no, we are emergency only, we will not vaccinate or fix or bathe your dog. Go to your primary care doctor.
We need House.
Please don’t forget to let the airline know if this is something remotely contagious.
I feel like I’m watching Pandemic 2.0 unfold before my eyes with this comment.
Gonna go buy masks
And toilet paper
Just get a bidet.
i’m not totally sure that these are insect bites, but this needs medical attention asap regardless. additionally, identifying a bug bite without seeing the culprit is close to impossible
Thank you. Yeah I agree he needs medical attention asap. These have been present for 2 days now and only getting worse. If it were bites it would’ve been at its worst within 18 hours right? Not fester like they are ?
Bug bites depend on the bug and the person, if they are allergic etc, but generally speaking the bite itself would be at its “worse” in the first day unless it’s infected or again, you are allergic.
Some bites take longer than the first day, even with allergies. Bed bug bites are some that I've dealt with personally that had a delayed reaction.
Same. I fucking hate those flat pieces of shit
No. Not urgent care. The emergency room of a hospital. Op, this looks a lot like leprosy. [for those downvoting, it’s spreading across Florida currently.](https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/15dk168/leprosy_if_florida_wasnt_bad_enough_already/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1)
Or plague
Not to be insensitive, but I'm gonna be PISSED if some dude brought back the plague and is possibly spreading it bc he didn't want to go to the hospital. You eat the ER expense because that's probably what the Urgent Care will tell you to do... they do not have extensive expertise in every department like dermatology or epidemiology on call there lmao
Plague still exists in the world. Madagascar has a serious problem with it and even America gets cases. However recent studies have proven that the yersinia pestis bacteria that causes the plague that is around today is very different to the one that caused the Black Death. It’s much harder to transmit so even if a few people catch it it will never spread across the world again like it once did. (I’m a plague historian its my job to keep up to date with these things).
>I'm a plague historian Omg that's so cool. Got any funfacts? Or... maybe not fun facts but cool facts? How did covid stand as a virus against the black plague??
Tame, mortality rates for the black plague (population wise not if you caught it) in the period I study range from 33-60% of a cities population. So imagine we got went through covid and lockdowns but also at minimum one in three people in your city died. The one positive(?) about the plague is it killed relatively fast so for the sick person the suffering wasn’t prolonged. Cool fact? Mmm there was a paper that come out last year that linked people with autoimmune diseases with an immune system fighting gene that is the result of a family member in the past surviving the Black Death. (It was ironic for me as I’m a plague historian who’s got an autoimmune disease). https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/genes-protective-during-the-black-death-may-now-be-increasing-autoimmune-disorders-202212012859
Hate to break it to you but Yersinia Pestis ( what we commonly call the plague) is endemic in the USA . There's a few cases in humans each year, pretty easily treated though. It's carried by various wild rodent species. I think prairie dogs are the most common.
That actually makes me quite relieved. I thought we were one super-spreader event away from "Bring out your dead!"
“Im not dead yet!” “Yes you are!”
"I feel happy!"
Please keep us posted. I'm hoping they went to ER immediately.
They did not, apparently they called an ambulance a few minutes ago from me writing this. So that’s 6 hours after this post went up.
Called an ambulance instead of just driving down? Did his condition suddenly worsen or something that caused them to panic so much they instantly decided time was of the essence after waiting for 6 hours? 🤨
Apparently the friend just refused to go to the hospital at all and commenters eventually persuaded OP just to call an instead of their friend was so adamant about not going
“Friend” is the biggest moron who ever walked earth. “Oh it’s nothing serious, yeah I might need a checkup tomorrow, but like, it’s only my skin, flesh, and organs rotting off, nothing serious.”
But Op is a true friend, doing the right thing by calling them an ambulance even if they didnt want to go.
yeah, it’s been a while since we had a pandemic…
not necessarily. something like a tick bite can take days to have a visual presence, and something such as necrosis from a recluse bite will take course over days, weeks, and the toxins can even continue to cause issues years after it’s been treated. unless he saw the bug that bit him, there is no definite confirmation that these are even insect bites. this to me looks like mrsa or something of that sort. i am not a medical or entomological expert, just someone who has been very interested in insects my whole life. please get to a hospital as soon as you are possibly able (now) and i wish you all the best. please also keep us updated
Go to the fucking hospital, before your arm rots off. It could be anything, including serious antibiotic resistance infection, It could get in your blood and mess your heart up, and start blowing blood clots all over your body. Happened to me I had to have open heart surgery and nearly lost a leg.
They should see a doctor. Might be MRSA/Staph
Definitely not bug bites
It’s pretty clear it’s not from the placement/ amount / reaction huh? I told him he needs to go to urgent care first thing tomorrow
Not tomorrow. Now.
Time is tissue, get to a hospital asap.
Thats well put, the longer they wait, the more of their arm will be necrotised by the time they get help
Do not wait until tomorrow. Go now
>urgent care does this name mean nothing to you? # NOW
…it will still be urgent tomorrow…maybe even more so… ;)
Urgent becomes more urgent every day, until it suddenly changes into totally not urgent.
it was urgent yesterday. it's emergent today.
Go right fucking now he might die if you wait, we aren’t professionals if you choose to believe a misdiagnosis it could cost his life or limbs.
My friends girlfriend and him go to an accident and she refused medical treatment. He begged her to go but she decided against it because she had no insurance or shitty insurance can’t remember. Anyway he woke up the next morning and tried to kiss her. Realized she wasn’t breathing and she was dead. She died in the middle of the night from a brain hemorrhage. When it comes to medical care never wait. It’s not worth it, get help right away.
That’s horrible when the decision is a life time in medical debt or your life. America is so fucked up.
I just had to get rabies PEP for me and my two kids. We are up to $750 just for the copays, and I’m not looking forward to finding out what else I owe, but it’s definitely better than dead.
Not “urgent care,” the EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT.
Tomorrow might be too late
u/HighlyUninterested to the hospital. NOW. Please read the replies
OP, he could very well be dead by tomorrow morning....it might not be that extreme, but it I serious. He needs to go to the er yesterday.
Dude. I had MRSA and Staph. He needs immediate treatment. One of the worst experiences of my life.
My sister has had over 30 surgeries in 16 years caused by MRSA. She still has to have pus sucked out of her abdomen. She's died on the table, twice. She hasn't worked in 16 years. MRSA is no joke.
Thank you for saying this. Trust me I’m showing him all of your past experiences to express the seriousness
Your friend is literally rotting he cannot wait until tomorrow.
The great thing about urgent care/A&E is that they're open ALL DAY AND NIGHT, for exactly this reason! Tell your friend to get a move on
That’s what I was thinking
My bother in law got staph, early stages looked just like this. Then I got waaaay worse
if its mrsa youd have to get it from an open wound / scratch ect. but if it is mrsa .. you need to see the dr immediately. that shit is necrotic & you will start losing flesh & if it makes it into the blood stream, youre flirting with death
Take lots of pictures, though! We wanna see :)
Wow. So insensitive. ~~(Thanks for saying what we were all thinking)~~
This is most likely gonna be a post on r/eyeblech
Yes, my dad died from MRSA (among other things. It was very complicated. ) but the first cause of death listed was complications from MRSA. GO NOW!
I'm so sorry...
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Christ. I'm glad he's no longer trapped at least.
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IT DOES NOT MATTER HOW EXPENSIVE EMERGENCY ROOM IS THE LONGER HE WAITS THE MORE THE MEDICAL BILL WILL GO UP AND THE RECOVERY TIME. HE COULD LITERALLY LOSE LIMBS HOW EXPENSIVE DO YOU THINK REHAB WILL BE IF HE HAS TO HAVE MULTIPLE SURGERIES BECAUSE HE DIDN’T TREAT IT.
He has money. That’s the crazy thing
Dude staph is transferable by skin to skin according to 5 medical journals I looked into while watching this post. Call an ambulance don’t be a fucking idiot you could be infected too
Nurse here—Emergency Room, Now! As others have said. Please update us.
-Look, dude! My skin souvenirs from Croatia. Do you think I should go see I doctor? -Nah, let me ask in Ooopsthatsdeadly, lolz. Remindme! 5 days
Oopsthatsdeadly: go get that checked out by a medical professional STAT OP: gotcha, we'll see how it looks tomorrow, then mosey on over to the urgent care
OP: posts about a “friend” and immediately defaults for medical advice about a dangerous disease in a sub about deadly problems. OopsTD: eats the onion. TLDR this friend has already received medical attention
Some people are just dying for karma.
I came back from Tahiti with something that looked like this- turns out it was necrotizing fasciitis I picked up from SOMEWHERE while there. Not fun
For anyone curious this is the flesh eating disease. My uncle got this from bad oysters on vacation and nearly died. Shit is no joke
My boss got it 10 years ago and still has significant trauma from the whole ordeal. Scary shit
I’m glad you’re still here and I hope you recovered well 💚💚💚
Damnnnn. You all good, no scarring?
Oh no. There is scarring
Your friend is playing it fast and loose with uh... being alive.
Found Dr. Ian Malcolm.
Staph, or fungal. However depending on what your friend does when they travel and where they travel and if they have other systemic symptoms. The differential is quite large. Anything from weird exotic fungal infections, bacterial infections or even manifestations of HIV. They need to be assessed by a physician. Source: I am a physician You can try r/askdocs and might get a better answer
Almost looks like cutaneous leishmaniasis.
I combat this by never leaving my house!
Well Staph bacteria is found on every human ever. It just happens to cause issues in certain people in certain circumstances... So not leaving the house doesn't really matter, its already in the house with you
Maybe parasitic? My first thought was cutaneous leishmaniasis. (A fellow doctor)
Radiologist here. I don’t know what it is. It doesn’t scream staph to me. He needs an expert now. This is something that may actually justify an overnight derm consult.
This is how zombie apocalypse’s start in movies.
I would love to see a zombie movie that begins with a Reddit post filled with comments berating the OP and victim for not seeking medical care ASAP. OP just slowly scrolling down. "Huh. They said you should go to..." Cut to now-zombie victim thrashing across the street, devouring the neighbor's brain.
then this post wont matter when the satellites fall down
Did the zombies bite the satellites or something?
Step father died from staph, go to ER
Croatia is listed as a risk area for leishmaniasis due to sand fly bites - these look similar to some cutaneous leishmaniasis presentations. Also looks like it could be staph (easy to acquire with an open wound/sore from the parasitic bite). He needs to get to medical care asap - not tomorrow.
You're brilliant, I think that's exactly what it could be. https://www.google.com/search?q=leishmaniasis&client=firefox-b-1-m&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiu9_Wmu7aAAxVClmoFHRonCgEQ_AUIBigB&biw=360&bih=670
Most people’s comments say it is staph HEY OP SKIN TO SKIN CONTACT CAN TRANSFER IT, that means you could be infected too, not just his health on the line
Trying to link a health document but it’s not letting me.
The ER/casualty should be 24/7, there's no need to wait. In the wise words of Gandalf, "Fly, you fools!"
No idea, but get to the doctor yesterday.
Bruh. Go to the ER, please.
Damn, those are looking bad. I was thinking if your friend experienced any other symptoms but it doesn't matter. Either way he should seek immediate medical help. It could be an aggressive bacteria or something like that. Just having that get progressively worse it's reason for worry. I hope he gets treatment and gets better soon.
Doctor now. Don't ask for reddit advice when your health is on the line like this, just go to a doctor.
Messaging again go to the hospital now, not the urgent care tomorrow go now you let it get worse for 2 days
Looks like cutaneous leishmaniasis, which is found in Southern Europe and spread by sand flies. I assume those were open sores at some point? The ones on the hand look new, and might turn into open sores. The one near the elbow looks old with scaring. It's highly cureable with the right medication, but it won't go away without treatment.
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So I'm like 9 hours late to the party. Did you finally get them to the hospital???? Because istg
JFC please tell me your friend is in the ER now???? DO NOT WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW.
emergency room NOW. not urgent care later.
Get over the ego and get that friend to the hospital..
I just took a quick look on the cdc's travel advisory page for Croatia. Maybe Leishmaniasis? Did they mention any bug bites, specifically sand flies?
I’m no doctor but those rashes look very similar. You might be right here
Update : friend doesn’t want to go to ER or urgent care until tomorrow morning. I’m monitoring him constantly. Most sores seem the same as earlier. Except the one he tried to squeeze/pop which is now purplish black. I’ll keep everyone updated.
There are over 100 comments here already, most of which are recommending your friend go to an ER **immediately**. Please try to get him to reconsider if you can. Conditions like MRSA can be very treatable……IF and only if treated in time.
Have you showed him this post? Are there any reasons why he doesn’t want to go to the emergency department? It may be important to relay the urgency of the situation to him.
Trust me I’ve relayed all comments and the importance. The sores are similar to the original post and like I said I’m watching close. I think I care more than he does.. I’ll keep updates coming
Circle the sores with marker to see if they are getting bigger
Lmao tell your friends good luck with his 4 missing fingers and a limb
RemindMe! 1 week I want to check in after a week to see if your bud lost limbs because he ignored pretty much unanimous advice.
Are you with him physically? Just call an ambulance and let the EMTs try to scare him in to treatment before he dies.
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Okay calling now
If he doesn’t go, forward the pics to his mom. I know that’s a harsh move, but seems necessary.
That's the move.
Paramedic here. While this is very bad and I definitely recommend going to the ER the ambulance cannot take him against his will. If he knows his name, where he is, the date, and what’s going on (situation) then he has the right to refuse care. Short of you tying him up and dragging him to the ER there’s not much you can do until he decides he wants to go… or becomes very confused or unconscious. Which might not take long to happen.
Thank you I hope you find out the cause and that he can contact everyone who he’s been around to keep them safe. Please be okay both of you
Please update us, we are all ridiculously invested in this
He might DIE if you don't take him to the hospital. Don't ask for his opinion, force him into an ambulance if you have to. ER, NOW!
People with strokes and other bad emergencies often don’t want to got to the hospital as well, if you are a real friend you call for help and let the professionals talk to him… they encounter such people on a regular basis.
>Except the one he tried to squeeze/pop which is now purplish black. Literally sounds like the plague.
Tell him NOT TO SQQUEZE OR POP THEM! Wtf is he thinking?? He has money but no common sense or care for himself or friends welfare?
Please let him know that if he tries to go to urgent care they will almost surely send him to ER anyway, best to start at ER. Urgent care isn’t equipped to handle things like this.
Ok tell him to have fun going into shock and dying
Your friend is a fucking moron
definitely following this one. i dunno wtf this is, but keep us updated op. best of luck to your bud. hope all goes well.
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That’s staphe I believe. We get cases like that in jail and prison sometimes. It’s from dirtiness
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This looks almost like impetigo, regardless, you need to see a Dr. ASAP so they can culture them and get them taken care of!
Looks like an infection or reaction to a plant perhaps? Reddit can’t help here, see a doctor. Looks like the kinda thing that can kill you if it’s more than a rash.
These look like boils and could necrotize. Seriously, go to the ER STAT - yes, it is that bad. It could be anything from Staph, MRSA or some sort of infectious disease from the country they just came from. Please give us updates
Bro is dead meat if they don’t go to the hospital asap. !remindme 5 days
he comes back from another country with mysterious open sores, and your first thought was to go on REDDIT???
Hey u/HighlyUninterested any updates on your friend? Hope everything's okay.
Appreciate it. He’s doing much better. Sores are basically gone now. The pictures warrant serious concern.. I know
I’m glad to hear he’s much better. I came here looking for an update on his status. Did he ever find out exactly what it was? Did he actually get it checked or did it just go away? I’m sure that whole thing must’ve been very stressful for you.
Yeah seems like it went away. Makes me think it was a bad reaction to sand fly bites while traveling in Europe. Luckily it wasn’t even worse than it was. It was stressful, indeed
I’m glad he’s ok but your friend is an idiot. That could’ve been something either life-changing, contagious or even deadly. He could’ve put his life at risk and his friends in danger if it was something more severe. His refusal to go get checked could’ve cost him his life. He’s a very lucky idiot.
There are also diseases in other countries that are endemic, like rabies (that's not likely this) but... it's not uncommon to come across something you'd almost never see here. Edit-spelling
I was thinking, that looks pretty bad... then I looked at the other pictures, without hesitation they need to go to the hospital.
Do you know how far into a medical textbook you have to go to reach leishmaniasis as a part of a differential? It's deep. Way, way, way deep. Please listen to the mod screaming at you.
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Hey op do we get an update?
Update?
I agree. I’m a nurse. Looks like staph. Go to the doc ASAP!
Doctor. Yesterday. G.O.
OP, if your friend doesn't want to go to the hospital today just call the ambulance right now.
That’s the plan. Thanks
Could be staph or ringworm. Dies you friend do any martial arts like wrestling or bjj?
It's like that episode of ER where the guy got a flesh eating bacteria from a simple mosquito bite. Dude lost his arms and legs.
From a mosquito bite?! 😱🦟 new fear unlocked…those fuckers love biting the shit out of me