Hooked 18: Injecting injuries and infections

Hooked episode 18 is all about injecting injuries and infections, it has to be said before you listen to this show that Allison and I are unusual people who find weeping wounds really fascinating.We cover most of the major injecting health issues.

The most important thing for people to remember if that if you have an injecting injury or you think you may have an infection then you need to get it checked out by a medical professional. If it looks wrong, and it feels wrong, then the chances are there is something wrong.

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The most important thing to remember is that if something doesn't look right, or doesn't feel right you should get it checked out by a medial professional.

This was becoming a huge set of show notes, so I decided that for most of the health concerns mentioned in the show we'd put up the wikipedia pages for them:

Endocarditis, necrotizing fasciitis, DVT, cellulitis, abscess, septacemia, tetanus, phlebitis, venous ulcers, and last but not least priapism.

There is also Avril Taylors report on the behaviours of injecting drug users in Scotland.

Wikipedia page on Maggot Therapy