Is my toe infected?
i scraped my big toe on some carpet and it kinda tore a lil of the skin off. then a couple days following i scraped it in the same spot on the sharp end of the kitchen cabnent. it's really red and sorta puffy. it have some yellow stuff in it but i've been putting pills on it and the yellow has gone away. what should i do? does it sound infected?
Answers:
get a hot needle and pop it! get rid of any puss and it should draw from better.
No, infection is greenish/grayish. Red and puffy just ability it's inflamed, which is a pretty natural thing after you aggravate an injury by scraping it again.
If the "yellowish" stuff be really watery, that's a naturally antibacterial secretion by your body meant to prevent infection. Keep it verbs and you'll be fine.
It probably be, but isn't anymore if there is no more "stuff" in it. The "stuff was probably puss. I've gotten an infection on my thumb twice by the pin and didn't put anything on it, but rather I popped it. I don't advise doing that or anything, but it worked for me.
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