I have a degree in Biomedical Engineering and Psychology from Northwestern University. I finished medical school and completed my M.D. at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. I am currently in my residency for surgery- hopefully to be specializing in neurosurgery.
I want to answer questions on medical type questions. I'm a big fan of Dr. Drew Pinsky on Love Line and would like to help younger people from the mistakes I see a lot of young people do when they come into my ER.
Gender: Male
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Occupation: Physician- Surgeon
Age: 29
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I just had surgery and one of my cuts isn't fully closed on the outside. the inside is, of course. I have a green pus/gunk on the incission. It's near my bellybotton because i had liproscopic (sp) surgery. anyways, when i put an obsorbant on it, (fyi, toliet paper, cottonball, stuff like that) it obsorbs green stuff. i'm not sure if my other 2 incission are infected, and connot use them to detirmine if my one is, because they still have the tape my doc put on them on them. yes, she just taped me up, my mom assumes she just sewed the inner part. Do you think it's infected? (link)
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If your incision is open- red and draining a green pus- it means that your have an incisional infection- depending on how much is coming out- the incision may have to be opened a little bit and drained, and you may need to be placed on an antibiotic. If it is just a little bit, then they may just put in a small stitch and give you an antibiotic to take. You should make an appointment with the surgeon as soon as you can and tell them that your incision is draining green- and they'll get you in right away.
Sorry for the wound infection.
AK
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thank you, i did go to my doctor, and it was infected, but she said i cought it early, before it was, like, overly infected? idk, anyways, she drained it and gave me antibiotics. so, thankyou.
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