I got bit by something and my knee really hurts now. It seems like the bite generates heat, too; what to do?

Answer:
I will answer as a nurse who has worked at an emergent care clinic.
Depending on how long you have had the bite, how large it is, and what you got bit by, I would reccommend you go to an emergent care clinic or your family physician's office.
If you just got the bite, it looks small, like a typical bug bite (pencil eraser size, mostly red) put hydrocortizone ointment on it and try your best not to scratch it.
If you have had the bite a couple days, it seems to be getting bigger, it looks like a large pimple it could be an MRSA infection that will need to be treated right away. These often resemble large bug bites and are VERY serious if left untreated (the infection can get into the blood and cause you to become septic, or it can devistate a nearby joint or bone). Please do not "pop" the bite if it has a white head, this will only spread the infection to other parts of your skin and your loved ones.

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The bite is infected. See a doctor as it might be a bad spider bite. These can be serious. A bite should go away in 1 day, if you've had it longer ~ see a doctor ASAP

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Go to the Doctor, it maybe infected.

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I would watch the bite mark. was it a spider or do u know? If it starts to form a pimple then u see it gettin dark its a brown recluse and those kill tissue u will need to go to a Dr and get it cleaned out and put on antibiotics. I have seen people get fingers amputated cause of them. good Luck

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I had something like that. I thought I had a spider bite, it looked kind of like a mosquito bite. But over the course of a day it got more swollen, red and hard. It started to hurt, and the pain got much worse. It was also hot to the touch. Eventually I got a fever. Thats when I called my Dr. He told me to come in right away. I thought it was just an infected spider bite. All of those symptoms are signs of infection.But as another answer said, it was MRSA. Its a Staph infection that causes an abcess. I had to have it cut open and drained and get a shot of antibiotics. It was really bad, and it may not have been so bad if I had gone to the doctor a day earlier.You should go to the Dr.

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