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Hellfiregurl

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Okay, I know this sounds nuts, but my friend is a heroin shooter, and she used a bad piece of cotton, and some threads got into the syringe and she used it anyways. Well, not surpriseingly, she is very sick now,her whole bady aches and she had been throwing up for the past two days. She really doesn't want to go to hospital, though everyone tells her to. So if anyone has ever heard of this before, Id appreciate any help I can get. Thanx
AIM Hellfiregurl
 
'bad piece of cotton' meaning?
New cotton that happened to get stuck on the syringe and shot into her vein? Or bad, as in old and previously used, and happened to get stuck on the syringe and shot into her vein?
Either way, if the cotton got into her vein, she almost definately has cotton fever. But, in the second incidence, whatever was festering in the cotton beforehand would have been shot as well.
Was the syringe new? And how sanitary are her usual shooting practices?
She really shouldn't go any longer (2 days?) without seeing a doctor. I'm pretty sure cotton fever is easily treatable. And she will eventually have to see someone.
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Cotton fever is a possibility….. If she is running a fever she needs to get checked out. This condition is not very common however, and there are a lot of other things that could be causing the symptoms you describe.
"Cotton Fever" is a fever that is sometimes experienced by intravenous drug users. Questions about this condition were posted recently on the Internet. The fever is believed to be associated with an organism called enterobacter agglomerans that colonize cotton and cotton plants. Cotton is used by many heroin users to filter the drug as it is drawn into the syringe from the "cooker." According to a report in the Journal of Emergency Medicine, "Trivial illness accounts for 16% to 26% of such fevers." However, serious illness such as pneumonia must be considered in fevered addicts (D.W. Harrison and R.M. Walls, "`Cotton Fever': a benign febrile syndrome in intravenous drug abusers," Journal of Emergency Medicine, March-April 1990, pp. 135-139; R. Ferguson, C. Feeney, and V.A. Chirurgi, "Enterobacter agglomerans -- associated with cotton fever," Archives of Internal Medicine, October 25, 1993, pp. 2381-2382).
 
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