For some reason, I keep getting some nasty leg blisters. What is the best treatment for them?
By Sandy Gerber
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Do you have trouble with edema? Have you went to a doctor? My sister has lots of trouble with edema in her legs, and several years ago she had leg ulcers, that she was positive weren't because they didn't look like what a lady she knew had diagnosed as leg ulcers. My sister was also too stubborn to go to a doctor because she had to find somebody to take her or else ride her electric scooter, four blocks. Anyway they kept getting worse, and oozing, finally she ended up in one hospital near her home town for a few days and they couldn't get them under control, so they made arrangements for an ambulance to take her to a hospital in the largest city in our state, and she was there for a month.
The ulcers were so infected a person could smell it way down the hall from her room. There was awhile the doctors thought she would lose at least one leg, and maybe both. The infection was finally brought under control, and there was awhile that she was on some kind of pill that was $1,000 a month. Every now and then she will get the start of an ulcer and she gets it tended to right away. After she went home from the hospital she had to have a nurse come to her home and do skin abrasion like they do on burn victims. She said that was so painful she cried when it was being done.
Try using some petroleum jelly and wrap them. My Dad has a very small one that is being treated by his Hospice nurse. She used the petroleum strips and wrapped it in gauze. I've found the petroleum jelly works really well for lots of stuff and is very cheap!
I also had leg blisters. They were diagnosed as Cellulitis. They were infected, sore, horrible looking. I was sent to the Wound Clinic where the Dr. had the nurse wrap my leg with a salve on the bandage. I went home and started drinking more Aloe Juice which I'd been drinking. I was drinking 16 oz a night.
A week later, I went back to the Dr. who was amazed, said he could not believe my leg "healed" in a week as his patients come for a year.
You need to see a doctor to find out what they are. When I was in school, someone who sat at the same desk as me in one of my classes had impetago. I fought that infection over and over again the entire school year.
This sounds like something a doctor should deal with. Why are you getting blisters on your legs?
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