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What Causes Difficulty Talking And Swallowing After Treatment Of Thumb Infection?

went to hospital with a thumb infection on saturday. lanced it and removed infection. sunday went to er again having trouble moving mouth, talking, and swallowing. also trouble using legs and headache. done mri and cat scan. couldn t find anything so sent him home. could it be tetanus?
posted on Fri, 14 Nov 2014
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Hi,

Welcome to HCM

Thumb infection, post drainage followed by difficulties in throat, speech, pain in limbs, where mri with ct scan were normal, suggests some drug reaction to your medications.

Kindly evaluate.

All the best.

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What Causes Difficulty Talking And Swallowing After Treatment Of Thumb Infection?

Hi, Welcome to HCM Thumb infection, post drainage followed by difficulties in throat, speech, pain in limbs, where mri with ct scan were normal, suggests some drug reaction to your medications. Kindly evaluate. All the best.