reef cut - OUCH !!!

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WINDY MILLER
WINDY MILLER
WA
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18 Apr 2006 2:59pm
a got a little nick on my ankle from the reef a couple of days ago - today it has swollen up so much i can't wear shoes and the pain is pissing me off....

is there any thing else more effective than bettadine?????
leper111
leper111
WA
108 posts
WA, 108 posts
18 Apr 2006 4:20pm
yes: anti biotics.

dude, if its that swallen from a a small cut I would see a doc. Sounds like a pretty narly infection...
Pugwash
Pugwash
WA
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WA, 7733 posts
18 Apr 2006 4:41pm
Amputation
Kremlin
Kremlin
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418 posts
18 Apr 2006 5:19pm
Comrade Vindy Millar,

You need metho, vinegar, scrub brush & vodka

Scrub with nail brush or toothbrush... This is very sore but very important.
You must do this till the bleeding starts
Now pour metho and then vinegar onto wound (this is same as aqua ear)
Metho dry wound, vinegar kill reef bacteria

Leave wound for airing... no pick of skin or scab and NO scratching of him

Pain all gone tomorrow, skin heal well. maybe little scar for reminding of you

Now drink vodka and if you use your toothbrush for scrubbing throw him in bin. If you use friends toothbrush, just put back in bathroom

Kremlin
hobie14t
hobie14t
QLD
259 posts
QLD, 259 posts
18 Apr 2006 9:14pm
The mechanism of a coral injury involves the depositing of living organisms into the wound caused by the contact with the rigid limestone structure.

That biological material complicates and prolongs the injury

It may be accompanied by swollen lymph glands. Get immediate professional treatment.
Yousurf
Yousurf
WA
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WA, 165 posts
18 Apr 2006 7:34pm
You'll get reef rash bro. Heavy scap brah, scar for life for sure. Just grin and bare it howly.
rustle
rustle
QLD
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QLD, 279 posts
18 Apr 2006 10:51pm
Yes Kremlin
Have done this with brush before.
Just remembering to keep Vodka bottle out of falling distance for when shock hits and you fall over in cold sweat.
It works but you must be committed.
WINDY MILLER
WINDY MILLER
WA
3183 posts
WA, 3183 posts
18 Apr 2006 9:17pm
5hrs after the first post..

the pain got so bad ... cold sweats, shivering, high temperature and i couldn't walk, really did feel like someone sticking a knife in and twisting!!!!! or 10 minutes of Rove McAnus.

anyhow the strongest anti biotics money could buy and some pain killers, and i'm back on 2 legs...just

(now just the thought of Kremlin's method, makes me want to cry hard) but i'll remember it just in case!!!!!

anyone else reading this, don't do what i did and let the little bastards fester, clean it out a.s.a.p.
Kremlin
Kremlin
418 posts
418 posts
19 Apr 2006 8:06am
Comrade Vindy

You must be using of this scrubbing method
Pollops from reef stay in after reef cut, antibiotics combat infection, scrubbing remove pollops

I not say antibiotics is bad, you sound like you have big fever = big infection, so antibiotics must be used... I just not use antibiotics with vodka yes ?

Next time you must be scrubbing BEFORE cut feels like it starting to burn and pulsate. Then wash with metho & vinegar (or use aquaear, same same)
Old toothbrush is very good for this yes, old toothbrush has soft brisstles if you no like rough bite of scrub brush yes.
Me like hard scrub brush very much, but I am from Mother Russia

Kremlin
WINDY MILLER
WINDY MILLER
WA
3183 posts
WA, 3183 posts
19 Apr 2006 6:44pm
thankyou kremlin

from now on i am going to pack a "kremlin kit" into my first aid kit in the car..

i don't want to go thru this again
Windsurfer
Windsurfer
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202 posts
19 Apr 2006 7:00pm
As I was packing up I kept looking back at the beach to see how you were going. Just as I was getting in my car I saw you eat sh1t in the shorey right on that rock you pointed out to me earlier on. Ouch!
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