Salmonella
Jan 7th, 2007 by Brian A. Thomas
I forgot to update on what they decided Ari had, salmonella, and the fact that he came home Tuesday. The salmonella probably came from the Iguana, even though we never handle him like we should, we handle his water dish, which is probably contaminated and the cross contamination happened from there. Everyone is much better now, though Ari really didn’t care for his experience at all. They had a real hard time putting the IV in and stuck him 4 or 5 times for the first one, then 4 or so times when they had to redo it. They were about to put a third one in (his veins would blow, so they would have to redo it), had cleaned him up and was just about to stick him when a nurse ran in and said the doctor called to say forget the IV. At that point the IV wasn’t to rehydrate him so much as to get some antibiotics into him as one of his blood samples showed bacteria in it. They decided later that the bacteria was a cross contamination from his skin and wasn’t in the blood (none of the other blood samples before or since that sample had bacteria, plus the type of bacteria made them decide it was just normal skin bacteria).
