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Article below Taken from the Med book, Fact is An Abscess can occur for various reasons. Most of time the abscess is do to being unsanitary or bad injecting techniques or using the same injection sight to often. And sometimes yes it is do to dirty AAS injects that are not prepared properly in unsanitary condtitions. IMO I would always keep a broad spectrum antibiotic on hand for theese reasons.
An infection turning into celluitus will most likely put you in the hospital needing surgery to drain it and even worse Necrotizing fasciitis. I've seen the Necrotizing fasciitis first hand happen to a guy,it ate half of his muscle and skin off of his damn legg with a scar that looks like a bad burn victim. This type of inffection spreads faster than any other and were talking hours not days.
Necrotizing fasciitis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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peace.
An infection turning into celluitus will most likely put you in the hospital needing surgery to drain it and even worse Necrotizing fasciitis. I've seen the Necrotizing fasciitis first hand happen to a guy,it ate half of his muscle and skin off of his damn legg with a scar that looks like a bad burn victim. This type of inffection spreads faster than any other and were talking hours not days.
Necrotizing fasciitis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Abscess
Definition
An abscess is an enclosed collection of liquefied tissue, known as pus, somewhere in the body. It is the result of the body's defensive reaction to foreign material.
Description
There are two types of abscesses, septic and sterile. Most abscesses are septic, which means that they are the result of an infection. Septic abscesses can occur anywhere in the body. Only a germ and the body's immune response are required. In response to the invading germ, white blood cells gather at the infected site and begin producing chemicals called enzymes that attack the germ by digesting it. These enzymes act like acid, killing the germs and breaking them down into small pieces that can be picked up by the circulation and eliminated from the body. Unfortunately, these chemicals also digest body tissues. In most cases, the germ produces similar chemicals. The result is a thick, yellow liquid—pus—containing digested germs, digested tissue, white blood cells, and enzymes.
An abscess is the last stage of a tissue infection that begins with a process called inflammation. Initially, as the invading germ activates the body's immune system, several events occur:
Blood flow to the area increases.
The temperature of the area increases due to the increased blood supply.
The area swells due to the accumulation of water, blood, and other liquids.
It turns red.
It hurts, because of the irritation from the swelling and the chemical activity.
These four signs—heat, swelling, redness, and pain—characterize inflammation.
As the process progresses, the tissue begins to turn to liquid, and an abscess forms. It is the nature of an abscess to spread as the chemical digestion liquefies more and more tissue. Furthermore, the spreading follows the path of least resistance—the tissues most easily digested. A good example is an abscess just beneath the skin. It most easily continues along beneath the skin rather than working its way through the skin where it could drain its toxic contents. The contents of the abscess also leak into the general circulation and produce symptoms just like any other infection. These include chills, fever, aching, and general discomfort.
Sterile abscesses are sometimes a milder form of the same process caused not by germs but by nonliving irritants such as drugs. A sterile abscess may cause only a painful lump deep in the buttock where a shot was given.
If an injected drug like penicillin is not absorbed, it stays where it was injected and may cause enough irritation to generate a sterile abscess—sterile because there is no infection involved. Sterile abscesses are quite likely to turn into hard, solid lumps as they scar, rather than remaining pockets of pus.
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