>On Wed, Apr 15, 1998 at 10:42:16AM -0400, Dan Volker wrote: >> I must have missed how this started----How can anybody break a bone >> kayaking? > >Sea kayaking? Probably by getting hammered into a reef or something >that doesn't move. ;-)... So far I been staying away from western medicine most of my life, using stuff like tea tree oil, golden seal, ginger and such for injuries... This last winter I got a staph infection while in the phillipines...WHAT A TRIP...It festered quite bad, tea tree and golden seal together did nothing [20 years it worked evert time..] this time it only got worst...My friend from canada who came to join up with me had brought such antibiotics, I took 5 days worth before he left for Indonesia while I went to Vietnam...After 5 days, the first wound got better and healed up, 3 DAYS LATER, a secong one came, THE INFECTION WAS STILL THERE. Tried again with my stuff, no way it just got worst, went and got vietnamese antibiotics, did nothing, a third wound came up and my leg started swelling up...Back to the clininc for better antibiotics...these worked, and after 1 more week it was getting lots better...Having taken Canadian made antibiotics at first, it made the vietnamese useless at first.... When My friend returned to meet me, The wounds looked under control, but to make sure, I took another 15 days of the canadian stuff to be on the safe side... So that made for 6 weeks trying to battle this horrible infection...which I got from a small coral scratch... After this last winter, I am adding Staph antibiotics in my kit in case of oral scratch, I never want to go through that stuff again.... be carefull out there... Yours naturally sylvio lamarche Wycliffe organic gardens & Exotic locales all over the globe *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Apr 15 1998 - 19:45:56 PDT
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