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Suggest Remedy For Sterile Infection In Knee
My gma is in the Hospital at this time and the nurse told me that she may have a sterile infection in her knee. What is this and how hard is this to treat? A little background-she has sever Rhuematiod Arthritis. Had surgery friday to clean out knee and started on two IV antibiotics.
Wed, 18 Mar 2015
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sterile infection is not a infection as there is no organism involved in comlaint so basically it is a inflammation and not a infection or it could be a infection where organism is killed because of your current antibiotic . SO you dont need to worry as it will be cure with your present treatment but it is a post surgery inflammation so will take time of about 2 week .complete recovery will be take months. meanwhile you should monitor for appearance of any new symptom like fever or increase in pain as it will suggest new infection .
hope you are satisfied with my answer . feel free to communicate if any query .
regards,
Dr.Manish Purohit
Infectious disease specialist
sterile infection is not a infection as there is no organism involved in comlaint so basically it is a inflammation and not a infection or it could be a infection where organism is killed because of your current antibiotic . SO you dont need to worry as it will be cure with your present treatment but it is a post surgery inflammation so will take time of about 2 week .complete recovery will be take months. meanwhile you should monitor for appearance of any new symptom like fever or increase in pain as it will suggest new infection .
hope you are satisfied with my answer . feel free to communicate if any query .
regards,
Dr.Manish Purohit
Infectious disease specialist
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