Illness, Injury and Medical Advice from the Internet

Sorry for overselling it!

Glad it’s working out okay as well.

I suspect that will not have fully healed by 11 days and a public pool wouldn't be my number one place for a scabby wound.

Is he being offered a Plastics review? When I was on my Plastics rotation it was the hospital policy that all paeds burns were followed up in their clinic - your hospital's policy may be different obviously but worth checking.

It will depend on your risk aversion/level of pragmatism as to whether you want to rearrange the swim course. They may not even allow children with healing wounds?

You can get waterproof dressings and a non-adherent intermediate layer which will stop the scab sticking. Check waterproofness daily and reapply if necessary.

Realistically the answer you'll get over the internet will likely be more cautious or less definitive than one in a F2F clinic, as being unable to assess the patient and healing trajectory is a severely limiting factor (as with all questions in the thread).

Thanks. All very helpful.

He hasn't been offered a plastics review. What does that mean? He is back in for review on Monday so will ask about it then.

Plastic surgery. To see about the healing and scar.

Sorry, it's easy to forget how confusing things can be when you're not immersed in the system.

Plastics surgery is (in simple terms) reconstructive surgery, including grafting for burns. Obviously this isn't severe enough for that, but it often falls under their. Hospital policy varies site by site depending on availability of services but worth asking if he would meet criteria for review there.

Not to be confused with cosmetic surgery (often called plastic surgery by the public) which is performed by plastic surgeons, but only forms part of the specialty.

Currently in a long and tedious recovery process from wrist tendonitis, caused by MTB. Does anyone who's suffered it before have any recommendations for keeping it at bay when I start riding outside again (hopefully in a couple of weeks time).

Any experience with umbilical hernias? Am currently sitting in urgent care after being told by 111 to come in.

Neck problems can be associated with hearing problems in three different ways:

There can be a vascular problem that results from a narrowing of the vertebral arteries carrying blood up into the head. If this blood flow is compromised, sudden hearing loss may result.
There can be neural cervical spine problems, which relate to irritation of the sympathetic nervous system that also has an effect on the inner workings of the ears.
A combination of both arterial and neural can be the problem causing hearing loss symptoms.

Many studies have shown that these vascular and neural problems that lead to sudden hearing loss could all be the results of misalignment in the vertebrae of the cervical spine.

and: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25823136/

"Results: After the treatment, pure-tone audiometry score and NPQ score in treatment group improved to (40.23± 8.14) dB and (12.70±8.29) scores respectively, which were obviously better than that of control group's (37.70±10.61) dB and (21.24±11.13) scores (P<0.05).

Conclusion: Compared with routine method for cervicogenic sudden hearing loss, additional chiropractic can improve hearing and relieve neck pain effectively."

Anyone heard (haha) of hearing loss as a result of a crash or neck "tweakage" (deffo a medical term)

Post-traumatic conductive hearing loss (CHL) may be due to ossicular chain disruption. Should hearing loss occur after a trauma, symptom chronology must be assessed and audiometric information obtained. In the first few days following injury, hearing may be difficult to evaluate, especially in the event of hemotympanum, which may lead to a transient CHL. Nevertheless, temporal bone trauma is frequently associated with brain and cervical spine injuries [1] that sometimes require surgical management. Six months after a temporal bone trauma, persistent CHL occurs in 50 % of patients [2].
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4877355/

There can be damage either to the ear itself or to the central auditory pathways that process the information conveyed by the ears. People who sustain head injury are susceptible to hearing loss or tinnitus, either temporary or permanent. Contact sports like football (U.S. NFL), hockey and cricket have a notable incidence of head injuries (concussions). In one survey of retired NFL players, all of whom reported one or more concussions during their playing careers, 25% had hearing loss and 50% had tinnitus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensorineural_hearing_loss#Head_trauma

I’m in Thailand, on a short holiday.

Two days ago I had a green chicken curry that turned out to be somewhat pokier than I had thought whilst eating it.

On the way to the clinic my vision fully whited out before vomiting over the side of the moped-cab. Anyone know the mechanism that caused the blindness? Quite a surprise.

(Ended up with an antibiotic drip in the clinic and tablets to take in the morning).

Possibly this? In which case I was very close to falling out of the moped-taxi

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Fuuuuuck, dude. Hope you're doing ok now?

Been in bed for two days, but it’s a nice enough bed. View is also nice. I feel less awful today, so have high hopes for tomorrow.

Heal up!

Thanks!

Went for a couple of fairly easy runs over the weekend, some of which 3-4km was along a coastal path but nothing wild and then in the day playing on the beach. I woke up with a pain in my right toe on Monday morning. I went to the gym and did an upper body workout and 30mins z2 ride. Tuesday morning toe was super painful, spoke with phone gp and they said it could be gout or a ligament damage. prescribed Naproxen. Tuesday night woke a couple of times due to the pain. Wednesday went to doctor. Said she thought it might be a fracture but could also be gout. Went for xray and blood tests. Pain has been less bad last 2 days but still very sore. xray confirmed no fracture and blood work came back normal. So could I have ligament damage that would only impact the right big toe? Cant really bend it and it is swollen. thoughts on a postcard plz...

What’s your diet like? Could easily be gout.

My younger brother has gout, I don’t think I do, we do have a significantly different diet.

My dad spent three months working in Singapore, eating out every night. He came home with gout.

I had something similar in Helsinki years ago, in the taxi on my way to a meeting. I had to excuse myself when we arrived at the client’s office, and made full use of the reception toilet. Within an hour I was well enough to do my presentation then hot footed it to the airport to get the hell out of Dodge and return to the comfort of my own home. It was only at the gate did I discover that our team admin had cancelled my flight because she’d heard I was ill.

Sub-optimal!

As above blood work came back normal, no gout.

I was worried it could be an issue with my kidney not processing uric acid bc my diet is definitely not that which gout is associated (no alcohol, mostly veg, very active etc)

If loins has gout, clean living is dead.

Interestingly, one food which will give you gout - if you consume enough - is lentils.

Has anyone had a Perianal abscess? How long did it take for you to able sit on a saddle again? Been off bikes for 3 weeks now. Didn’t think it would affect me as much mentally as it’s doing.