Would you get a tetanus shot?

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Hi.

I wanted to give some follow-up here on the infected cat scratches because

-- even though it isn't exactly Lyme -- the info relates to topics

repeatedly discussed here.

People have mentioned cellulitis related to Lyme.....the cat scratch

infection which started just below my knee spread out in a wide circle and

then one 2 " band down the front of the leg to my foot. Cellulitis!

Saw a good nurse practitioner in an office where they do treat chronic Lyme.

I refused the tetanus shot. Because of amoxicillin allergy, a former LLMD

told me I ought not take cephalosporin (sp?). That turned out to be the

treatment of choice for the cat scratch wounds. We ended up going with

doxy. At home I realized I only was ordered 100 mg 2x a day, which is half

of what I was taking for Lyme. My LLMD very strongly told me one day that

doxy dosing is dependent on weight. And I am quite weighty in my body!

I've always taken 200 mg 2x a day. And I have an old Doryx bottle to prove

it. I paged the doctor from the new office. He did lots of online looking

and didn't see anything about give more than 200 mg daily of it, even for

Lyme. He appeared thorough in his search.

Has anyone else taken larger doses of doxy per doctor's orders?

Good news is that the infection seemed more clear in some ways this morning.

Hadn't noticed anything better after the 200 mg dose last night.

Later last night I used hot wet compresses and it didn't help much to open

the closed wounds. Ample, flowing application of H2O2 softened the tissue

and got the openings to appear again.

I then placed one of the Takara's detox foot pads on each wound at bedtime.

This morning the actual wound seemed more active, open and oozy. More

inflamed. However, a bit of the other areas were normal skin color and no

longer hot. Now nothing but a one inch circle around the wounds is red or

hot. There was a bunch of black yucky stuff on the inside of the Takara

pad, in the exact spot that covered the wound, in the exact size of the

opening.

I think using those herbal pads was the best thing. Clearly that's what

helped. Because I only took my second abx dose within the last hour.

Does anyone have any suggestions for somethng similar I could easily

purchase without going to a big city? I'd like to keep using the pads, both

day and night for a few days, but I only have two left. They were purchased

by mail order from a company across the country.

Maybe there are herbs like this I could get somewhere. Any suggestions

would be appreciated.

I used a bentonite/kaolin facial masque on the wounds a couple of times, but

I'm not sure I noticed any difference.

Thanks.

Deanna