Surprising but True! A Small Wound Can Result In Severe Bone Infection.

1. Dr. Manish Maheshwari is an Orthopaedist and Sports Medicine Surgeon in Indore and has an experience of more than 13 years in these fields. Dr. Manish Maheshwari practices at Global SNG Hospital in South Tukoganj, Indore. He completed graduation & post Graduation from Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College & Maharaja Yashwant Rao Hospital, Indore in 2005. He worked in major hospitals of Mumbai like Lilavati Hospital & Kokilaben Hospitals. ADDRESS: 16/1, South Tukoganj, Global SNG Hospital, Indore PHONE: 9826252228 EMAIL:MMANISH15@GMAIL.COM Dhirubhai Ambani

2. Surprising but True! A Small Wound Can Result In Severe Bone Infection A very common question raised on wounds, is "Can a small wound cause severe infection"? The answer is" YES", Even a very small wound can cause serious infection. Conditions like Osteomyelitis are rare but very serious condition. It's a bacterial infection of bone, where bacteria can enter the body through very small wound lesion connects external environment with internal body. This infection can reach to bone by traveling through a blood stream or spreading through nearby tissues. Once infection enters, the bone, tissue experiences inflammation. Infection can directly affect the bone itself if injury can directly expose the bone. After a bone gets infected, the germs or we can say the bacteria that infect bone tissue multiply or replicate very fastly. Staphylococcus bacteria usually cause osteomyelitis condition; sometimes fungi and other germs cause bone infection. Open upper extremity fractures or injuries with severe soft tissue damage usually have the highest risk of developing osteomyelitis. Acute infection usually develops over a period of 7-9 days; the symptoms of bone infection caused by a wound or other injury are very common, such as high grade fever for long duration, irritability, fatigue or weakness of body or nausea/ vomiting. Bone infection can also be identified by bone pain caused at region of infection; swelling around tissues, also open wound will have pus formation; these are some basic signs to identify bone infection. These are some basic symptoms that lead to bone infection.

3. Among children and teens, the long bones of arms and legs are most frequently affected, in adults, usually upper extremities and vertebrae of spine and hips; however, in extremity usually there is skin wound, trauma and surgeries which results in bone infection. Surgeries, especially orthopaedic surgeries, are at high risk for developing osteomyelitis. Other risk factors that may increase person's susceptibility to get osteomyelitis include if person having very long term chronic skin infection condition or inadequate controlled diabetes, diabetic condition also lead osteomyelitis as in diabetes you started getting debris and wounds, also it takes a long time to get healed if you have diabetic condition another condition which is risky to get osteomyelitis is if person having poor blood circulation or medically called arteriosclerosis condition, here patient have problem with blood circulation may cause thrombus at particular region. So these are some risk conditions prone to getting osteomyelitis condition. Bone infection needs time to get completely healed; the course may last up to 12 weeks. With the help of antibiotics. If the infection starts getting treated quickly after 3-5 days, the chances of healing is 99%. Bone infection is mainly of two types; they are haematogenous osteomyelitis and contagious focus osteomyelitis. These are two major bone infections; both types can progress to chronic bone infection characterized by large areas of bone death. Diagnosing osteomyelitis condition doctor will ask you to perform X-Ray, MRI, CT-Scan or bone Scan to detect site of infection and Biopsy to detect osteomyelitis and know appropriate line of treatment.

4. Treatment of osteomyelitis is medications; antibiotics are injected via veins for up to 6 weeks. getting known severity of condition surgery is also recommended by doctor for better Osteomyelitis surgery may involve one procedures. Following are some procedures opening and draining of infected area, removal of diseased bone or tissue, restoring blood flow back and then removing foreign object- these are procedures surgery is opt. After result. or more some for basic which

5. If any of the procedure is delayed or amputation suggested by avoid spreading of infection to whole body. Conditions like osteomyelitis serious medical timely; once ignored it can cause serious complications like damage or death of bone necrosis of particular site, etc. If you are having any problem related to infection, take treatment otherwise it can cause you disable and dependent. For more information regarding your condition treatment required. failed of doctors then limb is to need attention secondary tissue, on time, and

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