Re: above post not new info...

... I just found it while researching something else. Have you all heard about the student in Georgia that has lost a leg, her fingers and part of her abdomen due to a a flesh-eating bacteria infection? Aeromonas hydrophila, to be exact. Common in fresh water, standing water, brackish ponds etc. She had gashed her leg...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/11/flesh-eating-bacteria-aimee-copeland...


Of course I wondered what would have been the outcome had the wound been immediately bathed in iodine. Dr David Derry seems to think that this would have been an effective mode of treatment:

http://thyroid.about.com/library/derry/bl2a.htm


"Some of our recent serious skin diseases such a "flesh-eating disease" should respond quickly to topical Iodine treatment"

So, I did a search. There is a TON of info out there on the use of Iodine in bacterial infections in fish and other sea creatures such as turtles. These papers describe painting the lesions with iodine. There is info on treating eggs that come into fisheries with Iodine and iodine is effective against this particular bacteria. There is precious little info on topical application in humans that present with this infection. One that I recall stated that the patient's(a victim of a TIGER bite, eeek!) wound was treated with povidone iodine and then closed and then the bacteria multiplied in the closed wound.
I wonder if the same thing happened to this poor girl? The Huff-post article linked above states that:

"Though the doctors cleaned and closed the wound, it became infected, the Associated Press reported, most likely from bacteria at the zip line site."

I think they closed the wound too early. And that they should have used iodine. Just a guess on my part. That poor girl might have been immuno-compromised or something.

I'll tell you what though, I NEVER get infections. Maybe because I'm saturated.

Take iodine with you on all of your adventures, people. I have an essendulum that I used to wear, filled with iodine. It was a sort of talisman for me during my earlier days of iodin-ing. I think I'll break it out again...