confessions

i’m fried. fevers, can’t get out of bed… in one day! i got some antibiotics so hopefully ill be ok

when i go to the doctor i always say “Hey are you gonna look under the microscope to see what i actually have?”

i mean ffs we HAVE ADVANCED TOOLS.

they’re sending it to the lab… i hope i don’t have MRSA or something horrible but they always say “We don’t look under microscopes.”

i have a microscope i think tomorrow ill look on my own

as a biomedical scientist i should tell you that doctors don't really care about clinical exams BUT, once they do blood tests you don't need to look under the microscope so you can have results.

basically,
High neutrophil count? bacteria
High lymphocyte count? virus
High eosinophil count? parasite
And this is automated, not visually performed.

But there are some variations, like with dengue virus.

and ofc some liver, protein-c, glucose and sedimentation tests are always useful. I don't think you're gonna see anything relevant under the microscope without the right dyes, which ones do you have?

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I've got frequent recurring infections from staphylococcus aureus, even though i never cared about them being meticilin susceptible or not (mrsa or mssa) but for someone to die the infection needs to become systemic, which isn't this simple. Most of mine are skin ones.

to identify mrsa you'll need to swab nose, and plate it on 5% blood agar, check if it grows.

then do another one with the antibiotics on the center and see if it's suceptible. salted mannitol is also used, since mrsa turns it to yellow.

when colonies grow you can swab them on a slide and color with gram-color to actually check for bacteria.

It's not really simple and fast as a blood test!

i’m a novice i don’t have any idea lol! thanks for the details. the night i got sick i waa watching a show where a guy died from MRSA