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Hi All,
I have a very interesting update from that emergency case with the man with the infection, the boils and possible I thought parasitic invasion.He had also been treated with UV rays for a so called eczema which caused his skin to tan,to peel and be very dry. If you remember I gave him one dose of Carc 200. At the time he saw me he was extremely agitated. He phoned the following day to say he was much calmer. I gave him the remedy on the Saturday.

Now because I was going abroad 2 weeks ago I phoned to see what was going on as I hadn't heard from him or his devoted wife. She apologised and told me he had been released from hospital today. This was about a fortnight later. She told me that on the Sunday night he took really ill with a fever that made him delirious. He had a pain as if a heart attack although she now thinks it was panic. He was taken to hospital by ambulance. It was, she said, as if the infection had got accelerated. This infection did have the blisters/boils coming up and popping in a day. She says that there is a clear liquid that comes from them. After they have popped they leave a mark. She says she knows when an infection is due because there is a sour smell coming through the pores of his skin. (Calc?)While in hospital he had lots of different antibiotics (they probably didn't have a clue what to do!!) and now he has been given a short course of steroids. In her opinion the Rx caused the whole thing to blow at once rather than it being the usual drawn out affair.

I think they intend to come and see me next week when I return home if he is up to ias he is booked in. I suggested in the meantime to get him some acidophilus to take to lessen the damage done by the antibiotics.

The other thing I gathered was that the blister/boils do come up everytime he has an infection not just that first time after the wound from a cut off wart got infected which is what I thought. I hope when he comes to get a proper timeline out of him. His wife also thinks that the damage done by the UV sunbed treatment to his skin (Sol?) is something separate and not connected with these infections and fevers that he gets.

I also repeated that I think he should be seen by the School of Tropical Medicine in case this is a parasitic infection that keeps emerging. I think the last "do" was in April but I need to find out if there is a periodocity to it.

Any comments, suggestions of what to find out when he comes are as usually gratefully received.

Regards
Rochelle

www.rochellemarsden.co.uk

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Dear Rochelle, you are going to need lots of details of the fever and how he
reacts to them (anxiously it would seem).

Is this the Bermuda case? Lots of anxiety during the fever, delusion he was
about to die, septic wounds, small wounds ulcerate and spread etc - I was
thinking Petroleum before (still do to a certain extent).

Eruptions with fevers - there are so many. Is it a Camph type fever, or Rhus
tox or a septic, bacterial fever or relapsing - Baptisia stills sounds like
a good idea. If you think he might be Calc underneath what about Belladonna.
Robinia is sour with lots of skin sx and fevers.

It doesn't sound parasitic to me more like a lingering septic state which
has possibly woken up a latent measles, scarlet fever type eruption,
possibly even shingles - Camph, Morbillinum, Ran-b.

The accompanying anxiety and delirium has to be taken into account -
anthracinum, china - check out the heart sx as they might be for real and
not just panic. Take a very detailed medical history (suppressed eruptions)
and the original warts that he had biopsies done - I still think this is
strange to have biopsies done on warts, perhaps they were something else.

As I remember it there was a lot of control issues in this case - Dulc -
there are just too many rx.

I would also check out his medications and the side effect if any. I note
from the previous posts that he was on Aspirin - he might be allergic to it.
In fact Salicylic acid is definitely worth looking at, now i come to think
about it!

Control, heart, fear and anxiety, possible septic state, warts? and pustules
seem to contain the case.

Look forward to the fuller case if you have the time.

best, Joy

www.homeopathicmateriamedica.com
on 9/3/03 4:04 PM, rochelle@ntlworld.com at rochelle@ntlworld.com wrote:

Hi All,
I have a very interesting update from that emergency case with the man with
the infection, the boils and possible I thought parasitic invasion.He had
also been treated with UV rays for a so called eczema which caused his skin
to tan,to peel and be very dry. If you remember I gave him one dose of
Carc 200. At the time he saw me he was extremely agitated. He phoned the
following day to say he was much calmer. I gave him the remedy on the
Saturday.

Now because I was going abroad 2 weeks ago I phoned to see what was going on
as I hadn't heard from him or his devoted wife. She apologised and told me
he had been released from hospital today. This was about a fortnight later.
She told me that on the Sunday night he took really ill with a fever that
made him delirious. He had a pain as if a heart attack although she now
thinks it was panic. He was taken to hospital by ambulance. It was, she
said, as if the infection had got accelerated. This infection did have the
blisters/boils coming up and popping in a day. She says that there is a
clear liquid that comes from them. After they have popped they leave a mark.
She says she knows when an infection is due because there is a sour smell
coming through the pores of his skin. (Calc?)While in hospital he had lots
of different antibiotics (they probably didn't have a clue what to do!!) and
now he has been given a short course of steroids. In her opinion the Rx
caused the whole thing to blow at once rather than it being the usual drawn
out affair.

I think they intend to come and see me next week when I return home if he is
up to ias he is booked in. I suggested in the meantime to get him some
acidophilus to take to lessen the damage done by the antibiotics.

The other thing I gathered was that the blister/boils do come up everytime
he has an infection not just that first time after the wound from a cut off
wart got infected which is what I thought. I hope when he comes to get a
proper timeline out of him. His wife also thinks that the damage done by the
UV sunbed treatment to his skin (Sol?) is something separate and not
connected with these infections and fevers that he gets.

I also repeated that I think he should be seen by the School of Tropical
Medicine in case this is a parasitic infection that keeps emerging. I think
the last "do" was in April but I need to find out if there is a periodocity
to it.

Any comments, suggestions of what to find out when he comes are as usually
gratefully received.

Regards
Rochelle

www.rochellemarsden.co.uk
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Gosh Joy there is so much in your post to think about so thanks for that!! Yes it is the Bermuda case as you call it. The thing is that he gets these episodes regularly unless , as his wife thinks, the Carc has blown the lot up and hopefully away!!

I think I posted nearly a full case when I first wrote about it. If not I can post the whole record of the consultation as I have a CD with me with the case on it. However I won't be able to treat a delirious fever with boils that pop if they are not there when he comes to see me. The heart symptoms could be for real as he has had an angioplast in the past 18 months since the infection started. I presume that they will have checked up on that while he was in hospital. I do know that if you have had an angioplast you have to take aspirin to keep the blood from clotting. I think he also may have been on Fucidin as well but I will have to check my notes for that.

One of the things I do intend to do is to put him on Crateagus herbal tincture as it cleans up the arteries and can reverse high cholesterol. Dr R reckons that 6 drops tds is enough to do this in 6 months.

Regards,
Rochelle
www.rochellemarsden.co.uk

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Maybe not, but these sx are very much part of the case and details have to
be got, in fact they will probably lead to the rx. Also check for other drug
allergies as the 'shot' he had in bermuda might have been detrimental in
keeping the infection in.

I would also be curious about the fact that the wound didn't heal - the
swimming incident (salt water?) might be a red herring. and of course his
extreme anxious state appears to be out of proportion to the condition - did
this anxiety about his health lead him to have the biopsies done and the
choice to have the skin tx or was it heavily suggested by his GP or ?

best, Joy

www.homeopathicmateriamedica.com

from Rochelle,
edit... However I won't be able to treat a delirious fever with boils that
pop if they are not there when he comes to see me. edit...

Regards,
Rochelle
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Good thinking Joy. Also why did he have this UV sunbed treatment for his eczema - when did this start etc etc . There is so much more to learn about this case.
I think he was a normal , very hard working business man until all this happened. I need to find out if he has always been so anxious about his health. Maybe this is a case where I do need to have his wife in as well! Huis wife did say that he was so much better now - much better than when I saw him. Maybe the run up to another bout of this infection leads to the anxiety. Come to think of it there was an agitation with the anxiety which now makes me think of Hyos. in the extreme state. maybe also that dose of Carc. changed things so I may be able to recognise a remedy when I see him.
Regards
Rochelle
extreme anxious state appears to be out of proportion to the condition - did
this anxiety about his health lead him to have the biopsies done and the
choice to have the skin tx or was it heavily suggested by his GP or ?
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