Questions about cellulitis

I'm sorry about your predicament. From what you say, obviously youre a person who needs to be extra cautious. NO ONE wants cellulitis and for good reason. With precautions you greatly lessen your chances of getting the dreaded cellulitis, and it isn't necessarily so that we will get it when we have a cut, bite etc, but wisdom tells us we must be careful. Of course prevention is always going to be better than cure, but we need to live as well. We're not going to stop every scratch scrape and nick. Aside from the regular precautions like moisturizing area,  keeping hydrated etc, I carry an antibiotic cream at all times, and I can't tell you how many times its saved my butt.  Hopefully with your situation you can find one that you can tolerate. I would definitely talk to your doctor if I were you and get something so that you can have more peace of mind. 

As for it starting elsewhere, I'm not sure about that. Perhaps someone will chime in on that. I would think it's probably more likely to occur at the injury site, but I wouldn't rule out that it depends on where your LE is more troublesome. 

First there was BC then there was LE. Yeah your right. It can be worse than cancer.

Glad to help!  The thing is mostly our course of action will be dependent on what is relative to us like any additional health issues and so you have to find what works for you and that's why it's so important to see your doctor. I'm pretty sure with cellulitis it finds a way in through the skin. As for me, I had it once a few years prior to BC in the shin. I had no scratch, bite or other little injury. I was puzzled until the my GP told me it can come through the slightest microscopic skin crack, even that which we can't see. In my case I may have had some fluid retention which caused the skin to be tighter than normal. That's what I put it down to. It certainly makes sense. I was within an hour or so of being hospitalized. Thankfully I dodged that bullet. If you have any type of swelling it's all the more reason to keep the area well moisturized as a preventative.

I'm not sure what C Diff is, but it doesn't sound nice. I really hope you can get this sorted. I don't think you would get celulitis from Hubby but if it's a bug which generally needs antibiotics then obviously prevention is a very wise course for you. When I was doing Chemo, I would not go near anyone and I made sure my Hubby was vigilant too. I still managed to get ill being neutropenic on the 1st round spending over a week in the dreaded hospital, but thats a bit different. My doctor said it can come from within you and quite often they can't find how you got a bug. 

All the best.

Thanks for the breakdown. Gosh what a predicament and a dangerous condition! No wonder you are so concerned and scared. I always say though, scary or not, it is what it is and facts are facts. It's always better face what the reality of it is than go into denial or something. Allergies are definitely not fun either. 

The bleach treatment takes me back to how you treat the spores of norovirus which are extremely contagious and even when someone vomits they can go airborne right across a large room. I caught it from an old peoples home earlier on this year. I'd NEVER want a repeat of that. Ughhh. So much for the so-called 72hr quarantine. There really is some nasty bugs around. I don't know about others but I definitely find since chemo, I catch things easier.