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Originally Posted by nostatic
I'm a fan of leeches
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Me too, though not so much now with the wound vacs. Used to be you could get the arterial stuff back together, but you would get venous congestion, your stuff would turn purple and die. Stick leeches on the end and not only do you get the blood out, you get a groovy anti-coagulant. Maggots, while creepy, are nice because they only eat the dead stuff.
I would tend to do what the pediatrician quoted above said, treat if temp gets too hot. Gotta stay on top of it, little kids can get way hot and dehydrated fast. Plenty of fluids when they are running a fever, obviously, cause they lose water faster. You can alternate tylenol and ibuprofen, which allows you to treat more aggressively if needed.