nah... sounds like you have low grade infection due to your op. could anti-bis are not kicking in. Avoid eating meat. I would inform physician immediately if not sooner and get it diagnosed. You want to avoid septicemia etc.. could lead to pleurisy. 98.6 is only an average of course. But if you are feeling any sort of fever, I would show appropriate concern. BTW fevers do not always have to have hight temp. For most of my life I got cold fevers. Low temperatures and surging fever with extreme weakness and malaise. It was always lung related.
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In the first 24 hours after an operation, 27% to 58% of patients may develop fever. Most of these cases, which are likely due to atelectasis, are of little concern unless associated with systemic signs, such as rigors, altered mentation, or hypotension. Pneumonia may occur several days post-surgery and is an important diagnosis to consider if systemic signs are present; it is also important to
question the presence of a ventilator-associated pneumonia after prolonged intubation.
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The patient has an increased risk of developing
cystitis the longer a urethral catheter is in place.
The catheter should be removed as soon as the
patient is able to mobilize, or use a urinal.
Wound
It is important not to miss something nefarious, like a necrotizing fasciitis or an intestinal leak, especially post-surgery. A cellulitis may be present
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Infection by onset time:
Day One—Local causes
• Atelectasis
• Wound cellulitis
• Urinary tract infection
• Indwelling catheter infection
• Transfusion reaction
• Drug fever
• Thrombophlebitis
• Surgical complications
Day Two—Respiratory/Catheter causes
• Pneumonia
• Urinary tract infection
• Wound cellulitis
• Necrotizing fasciitis or clostridial myositis
Day Three—Systemic causes
• Thrombophlebitis
• Deep vein thrombosis
Wound infection
• Cholecystitis
• Pancreatitis
• Systemic bacteremia/fungemia/viremia
Day Seven and on—Surgical complications, undiagnosed disease
• Leaking anastomosis
• Infected prosthetic material
• Deep wound infection
• Abscess
• Deep vein thrombosis or thrombophlebitis
• Clostridium difficile diarrhea
• Collagen/Vascular disease
• Occult bacteremia
• Neoplasm
Any bone cutting is always very susceptible to infect. I always insisted to drs. that I get anti-bis when I cut to the bone with an axe. Without fail within 3 days I would get a fever and sure enough it was an infection. One time I had to point out the bone cut to dr. on the x-ray. It was a sigmoidal dark gash on the shin bone. She was confused because it was not directly below the cut. Axe wounds always travel sideways under the muscle and nick the bone about an inch away or less from the flesh cut. Infection thru clothes still happens when the bone is cut. Only cut twice to the bone and did not infect. One was a knee op, and took routine anti-bis for two weeks after. Another was knife wound in the arm.
Cut 4 times to bone with axe in explo and always infected after. Sap adheres to ax and breed bugs. Too sticky to wipe clean when penetrating clothes.
A round of cloxicillin should clear up such incipient infection if started early.
BTW animal bite thru clothes rarely infect. Cloth wipes teeth completely clean 98% of the time.
Good news is a routine of cloxycillin should clear it up. If it necrotizing fasciitis, then it has been good to know you.
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The symptoms of flesh-eating disease include a high fever, and a red, severely painful swelling that feels hot and spreads rapidly. The skin may become purplish and then die. There may be extensive tissue destruction. Sometimes the swelling starts at the site of a minor injury, such as a small cut or bruise, but in other cases there is no obvious source of infection.
The infection begins locally, at a site of trauma, which may be severe (such as the result of surgery), minor, or even non-apparent. The affected skin is classically, at first, very painful without any grossly visible change. With progression of the disease, tissues becomes swollen, often within hours. Diarrhea and vomiting are common symptoms as well. Inflammation doesn't show signs right away if the bacteria is deep within the tissue. If it isn't deep, signs of inflammation such as redness, swollen and hot skin show very quickly. Skin color may progress to violet and blisters may form, with subsequent necrosis (death) of subcutaneous tissues. Patients with necrotizing fasciitis typically have a fever and appear very ill. More severe cases progress within hours, and the death rate is high, about 30%. Even with medical assistance the antibiotics take a while to react to the bacteria making the infection even more serious.[1]
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