➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[ShrekDawg]

I think that c diff is contagious, but an infection in the bloodstream isn't. Pneumonia is but my pneumonia should be pretty much gone by now after the high dose of antibiotics that they were giving me.

I even got the pneumonia shot, but I still got it somehow. They are thinking that I got the bloodstream infection and when I was puking I aspirated some of the puke into my lungs and that's what caused my pneumonia.

I don't understand anything about the human body because the bacteria that I have lives in everybody's body in your mouth but if it gets in your bloodstream then you get sepsis.

Oh wow that sounds absolutely terrifying and scary and horrible!!!

 

[FortCluck]

Oh wow that sounds absolutely terrifying and scary and horrible!!!

The human body is so weird. We have bacteria that lives in our body that can kill us at any second, but none of us ever think about it until it gets in your bloodstream

 

[ShrekDawg]

The human body is so weird. We have bacteria that lives in our body that can kill us at any second, but none of us ever think about it until it gets in your bloodstream

now you’re scaring me

 

[FortCluck]

Streptococcus viridans

That's the bacteria that I have in my bloodstream

 

[ShrekDawg]

Streptococcus viridans

That's the bacteria that I have in my bloodstream

Scary stuff! Is that different from staph? Staph and mersa are super scary too

 

[FortCluck]

Scary stuff! Is that different from staph? Staph and mersa are super scary too

Staph is just an infection that's not blood infection.

Staph and MRSA can be taken care of pretty easily

 

[FortCluck]

Basically what I have means my whole body is one infection because the bacteria is in the blood stream. So it can travel to anywhere in my body and attach itself.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Staph is just an infection that's not blood infection.

Staph and MRSA can be taken care of pretty easily

Yeah but they can be pretty bad in some cases. Usually not of course but sometimes

 

[ShrekDawg]

Basically what I have means my whole body is one infection because the bacteria is in the blood stream. So it can travel to anywhere in my body and attach itself.

Yeah I think I’ve heard of it before. It’s bad and I hope you’ll be okay

 

[FortCluck]

Yeah but they can be pretty bad in some cases. Usually not of course but sometimes

Yes staph is more your skin or nose. MRSA is almost like the same thing but it's just harder to treat. It doesn't go into your bloodstream, but it can destroy your skin and stuff.