Vibrio

[YellowMouth7]

Just read a report on the net of two young boys getting infected with Vibrio las weekend in LA. Just want to make sure that you all have Bleach on ya boat to kill this stuff if you ever have any open wounds on the water....no matter how small.

TB

[BIG RED 1983]

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[YellowMouth7]

I have always had a bleach/water mixture in a spray bottle....burns like you know what but its better then being dead :-)

TB

[swamp snorkler]

Commercail Fishermen carry the green alcohol

[Top Dawg]

I had it once. Promise y'all don want it. Hurts like hell and gets bad fast. If I woulda waited any longer to go to the doctor I woulda either had to be hospitalized or dead.

[Hydro]

Originally Posted by YellowMouth7

Just read a report on the net of two young boys getting infected with Vibrio las weekend in LA. Just want to make sure that you all have Bleach on ya boat to kill this stuff if you ever have any open wounds on the water....no matter how small.

TB

Any ideas where they got into it ???

Hydro

[YellowMouth7]

I think off shore of GI bot there have been cases all up and down the gulf coasT in th past

[Top Dawg]

When I had it I got it from a crab from hackberry.

[Feesherman]

Originally Posted by Top Dawg

I had it once. Promise y'all don want it. Hurts like hell and gets bad fast. If I woulda waited any longer to go to the doctor I woulda either had to be hospitalized or dead.

You was infected but I don't think it was vibrio. That's the flesh eating crap.

[Top Dawg]

Well that's what the doctor said it was...

[deek248]

Vibro is what killed Ralph Begnaud

http://louisianasportsman.com/storie...arsh-death.htm

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[drjay]

If you get an infection from a wound in salt water on the gulf coast, assume Vibrio. Don't assume the doctor treating you is assuming Vibrio. Ask him if the antibiotic he prescribes you is effective against it b/c lots of them are not.

[eman]

A lot of doctors have never seen vibrio and don't think of it as a first diagnosis.

[drjay]

Originally Posted by eman

A lot of doctors have never seen vibrio and don't think of it as a first diagnosis.

True.

[bayoublack]

My mom died last june of an unknown bateria infection. Doctors were waiting on the blood cultures to come back when she passed. She and my dad were at our camp in gibson and had gone fishing 5 or 6 days before she died and as always she caught 90% of the fish. They were fishing in the canal right by bayou black marina. Well she had several cuts on her hands and that is possible how she got infected. She was feeling like she had a bad flu and when she decided to go to the doctor her body was shuting down. Long story short if you think you may have it go to the doctor as soon as possible.