Oh my, WeeTree, that looks...well, you know exactly how it looks.
Your poor legs.
Have you tried black walnut tea baths? I've heard it can help immensely with bad exzema flareups.
We are gradually getting a better and better grasp of medical items to stock, including treatments for tetanus and infections. This week I was able to help one of my kids heal from pinkeye, bronchitis and an ear infection by using a combination of spray colloidal silver, grapeseed extract nasal spray, B vitamins and an otoscope which allowed me to check her ears.
I was so happy to be able to help her get well without needing antibiotics because it means that if we had a situation where we couldn't get to the doctor we would at least have the start of some helpful solutions.
If this was eczema there are several solutions, this is more like a poison ivy reaction with the blisters popping up and breaking and where the fluid leaks starts the cycle all over again, add the swelling to 3 times the normal size and it really turned into a battle of getting the swelling down. The cold water worked to get the heat out of the legs and the epsom salt to draw out the poison (still do not understand how a mosquito bite reacted like poison).
Learning the herbals to use is a must in my opinion.
The herbs/weeds are a gift from our Creator and we need to know they need to be used (he created them for us)!
I heard there is a new mosquito over in our area now (upper Midwest US) that is causing some bizarre secondary infection with it's bites. There are warnings going up to parents telling us to watch for fever, lethargy and extreme swelling from mosquito bites. I haven't looked into it at all, but I wonder if you managed to get zapped with one of those guys and it interacted particularly badly with some compromised part of your immune system.
Whatever the case...ouch!
I'm thrilled as I'm beginning to learn the names and uses of the various weeds I've been pulling out of the yard for years. Some of them are actually very useful - like that stinging nettle I may have finally succeeded in eradicating after years of not realizing it was something special. Oh well.
What do you have for tetanus infections? And that is awesome you were able to heal your child on your own. Where did you get the colloidal silver spray?
I should specify that I now have a protocol and supplies for preventing tetanus rather than treating an actual infection.
For prevention, I have saltwater spray, raw honey and chaparral leaf powder. With a deep puncture, tetanus spores have more of a chance to reach the blood stream if the wound doesn't bleed freely to wash out the spores. The idea is to cause the wound to bleed (make an incision if necessary), then wash thoroughly with saltwater, pack with the chaparral leaf powder to kill any spores that might have remained, spread raw honey over the top and bandage. As the wound heals and forces the chaparral out, rinse with saltwater and repeat.
I'm not sure what to use for an actual infection yet. I want to research that since I know Ben's grandpa got tetanus back in the 60s and his doctor gave him some injection that made him really sick for a few days but cured the tetanus. It wasn't a vaccine - the doctor said it was an antibiotic, though I don't know what that would've been.
My mom had the colloidal silver spray that she brought over. It's Blue Ridge Colloidal Silver Spray, 25 ppm. She got it from the Amazon listing I just linked to on the advice of the herbalist who's given advice to my family for a number of years.
I was so happy that all the secondary infections were able to be fought without going for antibiotics...the more we can save those for something really big, the better!