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My father seems to have developed a septic condition.
He is being taken to the ER right now because of the swelling in his
hand.
The docs do not know what it is or why but had last told him that if
it doesn't not respond to the new antibiotics by Fri they want him in
hosp on intervenous.
If anyone has insight to what is happening and ideas as to what can
be done to rouse his immune system please ... I will appreciate your
thoughts.

I can't believe that this is occurring over the holiday as everyone
will not be online or have time to answer this posting.
I am leaving for the Er shortly but will be checking my e-mail.

I only found out about his right hand this past thurs (18.)
(he casually mentioned it while we were having lunch & I copied a few
notes in the restaurant).
I have helped my father w/acutes in the past with good results but
for serious problems he goes to MDs.

A couple of yrs ago I did a check to see if there were any drug
interactions w/the 8 pharm drugs he was taking everyday because he
was having angina.
I found 7 poor reactions and his main doc changed the lipitor to a
diff staten and the angina went away.
7 Interactions are found for Drug Reax./ 3 drug-drug interactions
invoved in the meds below:

These are the medicines daily:
cumadin 2.5 mg blood thinner
avapro 75. mg heart med
digoxin .25 mg "
toprol 25. mg "
zetia 10. mg "
lipitor 40. mg cholesterol
proscar 5. mg prostate med
hytrin 2. mg "

These are the vitamins daily:
Q 10 enzyme
glucosamine
beta carotine
vitamin C
saw pometto
cod liver oil
.
Because of the hand swelling, inflammation and pain he is taking 2
antibiotics in addition to the daily med regimen above. (the side
effect of the above and interactions is 10 pgs so I didn't include
them but it is startling.)

Here is the info I gathered pertaining to his current condition..

3 wks ago while visiting a woman he loves who is undergoing with
chemo,
he used his r palm on a contraption to cut veggies, repeatedly
pounding down w/his palm.
After pounding his palm was painful enough that he went to the er
(He was in Florida at the time.)
His palm was tender but it went away.

2 weeks later (last week) he was staying alone in a cabin in upstate
NY.
It was very cold and he collected and carried a lot of heavy fire
wood. (My father is extremely fit at 84 yrs old.)

3 or 4 days after carrying the wood his r hand hurt so much as to
wake him up around 2 am.

His hand was so swollen, red (he thought the red had a purple tinge)
and inflamed and the pain so strong that he went to the the er again.
The docs didn't know why he was having this painful acute reaction.
The pain shoots up the inside of the arm into the bicep.
The pain is concentrated in the R palm, close to the thumb (the area
that had been abused/traumatized when he was chopping veggies 2 weeks
before.)

I advised that he drink a hot "tea" of kali p, nat-p and nat m
tissue salts and make them into a paste to apply topically.
He said the salts had an overall calming effect on his hand.

The next day he bought ruta 30C and apis 30C and I recommended ruta
because nbws the mechanical injury.

One dose ruta did not effect him (I asked him to judge by the pain,
color, swelling, tenderness and stiffness to judge any change.

Because of the urgency of this situation, Fri eve I recommended that
he take the apis 30C and that night his hand swelled up again,
preventing sleep. (I felt that I didn't have time to wait and I
couldn't find any poor reactions between ruta and apis.)

As far as the nbws and inciting cause that set off the original
swelling after carrying the wood, I wonder if he might have gotten a
spider bite.

Otherwise maybe he picked up a bacteria or virus at the hosp he went
to after the pounding injury.

I don't want to throw any more rems at him at this point & must leave
to meet him at the hosp asap.
(Was thinking of lach.)

Any ideas?
Thank you,
Lynn

Extremities; swelling; hands; right: (15) am-c, ars, arum-d, aur, bamb-a, DIG, hep, lyc, nat-m, phos, pter-a, sil, spig, teg-a, viol-o,

But if septic state I would also consider Pyrogen (if there is a septic fever) and gunpowder. Also look at Vip.

Rochelle

Registered Homeopath
EFT(Advanced) Practitioner
www.southporthomeopathy.co.uk

snip......................
What is the mental/emotional state with regard to the woman and her situation?
contusion (Arnica?)
cold-exertion< (Arnica?)
What kind of pain?
Extremities; PAIN; HANDS; Right (UPPER LIMBS; RIGHT)(s, 21, 0) (21) : aegle-f., ant-t., aq-mar., arum-d., asc-t., bros-g., canth., dios., fago., fic-mac., goss., hydrog., merc-i-f., mit., phos., pip-m., rat., sal-ac., term-c., thea., vanil.
(Note phos)
Extremities; PAIN; HANDS; Extending to; arm : ars., canth., hep., lach., lat-m., lil-t., nat-s.
(Note: nat-s)
(Note: two nat's and two phos)
Is there a reason you didn't continue with this?
(Do spiders hibernate in cold weather?)
Two thoughts:

1.Onset: emotional/mental-situation with woman and kali-p, nat-p and nat-m had a calming effect.

2. Arnica is said to help pain, contusions, swelling and sepsis.

Thanks Leilanae,

As soon as his hand became an acute crisis I stopped giving him any
salts or rems as I wanted to see what was going on as clearly as poss
(remember that my father is taking 7 meds, vits, antibiotics and the
night before this crisis he also took a sleeping pill.)

These are the rems that stand out:

staph
bry
lach, vipera or elaps
apis
ars

Extremities; DISCOLORATION; redness; upper limbs; hands; right (1)
staph
bry:
He has responded to bry beautifully in the past when using it for
resp acutes & with it's mechanical proponent, bry might be used now
as a comp rem or for the acute.
Extremity Pain; GENERAL; upper limbs; upper arms; right; rising;
amel. (3) bry
Extremities; DISCOLORATION; redness; upper limbs; hands (78) bry
rest
My father is dark (Italian), firm-fibered (strong, athletic still)
lean w/a propensity toward being irritable (& indignant)

animal:
apis and lach have redness and purple hand discoloration
When I gave his apis last fri he did have an increase in pale urine
so I believe it was working on some level and maybe I should not have
stopped giving it.)

lach has purpura, which is what the skin on his right hand is
beginning to look like

nux/ars
Considering the amount of meds he has taken in his life (he has been
taking hytrin for 50 yrs), including yearly flue shots and sometimes
pneumonia vaccinations, all the vaccinations, he drinks 2 cups of
coffee in the am and 2 glasses of red wine in the pm I can see ars
(and nux vomica) , maybe for a comp rem.

I would rather not use sulph or phos as he has an eighty yr history
of suppression, both emotional and physical and I would like to stir
this up as little as poss.

I think Leilanae's idea about the emotions might be key as the
extreme sadness and frustration would have had a profoundly draining
effect on him.

Leilanae wrote:
"Two thoughts:
1.Onset: emotional/mental-situation with woman and kali-p, nat-p and
nat-m had a calming effect.
2. Arnica is said to help pain, contusions, swelling and sepsis.
wrote:
her
upstate
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again.
reaction.
(21) :
dios.,
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weeks
ruta
pain,
that
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went
leave
and

You're welcome.

I was wondering about this and if the Cumadin was involved with the
bruising/redness.

With recent financial losses and a "woman-love" doing chemo, well, it
can't be easy
for him right now.

Leilanae