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Orazzal · Mar 19, 2013, 02:20 PM

About a month ago I went to Haiti to volunteer to work in the outlying parts to help rebuild the country. While there I had 3 mosquitoes bites and now my legs are swollen and I have sores about the size of my hands and dollar bills all over my legs. They are hot red and have a milky whitish green overlay and keep leaking a greenish yellow liquid. I have tried peroxide and nothing it now hurts when I want and parts of my leg are getting nubmish. Please help.

Wondergirl · Mar 19, 2013, 02:27 PM

It sounds like it could be cellulitis. Whether it is or not, you definitely need to let a doctor see this and treat it. I had cellulitis ten years ago and was in the hospital for IVs and antibiotics for two weeks -- in other words, your infection sounds serious. Get going and get it taken care of!

Orazzal · Mar 19, 2013, 02:30 PM

Thank you, the reason I haven't gone was money but ill go asap. Once again thank you.

joypulv · Mar 19, 2013, 02:55 PM

I had cellulitis over one entire leg too!
It is either staph or strep, and gets into a hole in your skin, even if something like a bug bite isn't iteself poisonous. And yes, it spreads like fire, and I ended up in the ER too. Oral antibiotics didn't work.

Wondergirl · Mar 19, 2013, 03:20 PM

I had a small cut on my left knee. Within a week or so, I ended up with sores up and down my leg, and my foot swelled to twice its size. After the two weeks of IV/antibiotic treatment, the infection centered in my left shin as an abscess, which had to be removed surgically. And I agree with Joy that oral antibiotics aren't strong enough to lick this.

joypulv · Mar 19, 2013, 03:30 PM

And my leg hasn't been the same these 3 years... it's bigger than the other one, and it hurts all around the knee where the infection started, and on down to my ankle and foot, which don't 'work' right. I went back to my regular doctor 6 months after the hospital and all he said was 'You'd be dead of sepsis if there were still infection.' So I chalk it up to the kind of inflammation that is common to arthritis and other conditions that happen after an infection has invaded the body. I found many other people online with this.