How do I know if my sting ray wound is infected?

Question:

About a week ago I was stung by a sting ray on the bottom of my foot. after a few days i was feeling better and began to walk on it like normal. It stayed a little bruised and still a little swollen. Now, the bruise is completely gone, but for the past day and a half it has become more swollen and it itches like crazy. I don't think there is a barb stuck in there, when it happened a doctor checked it out and said it was fine. Is it doing this because it is healing or is it infected? my foot feels like a baloon (it doesn't look that way though)

Answers:
Go see a doctor! ASAP

be pro-active and cut your foot off now before the gangrene spreads. that's my advice.

If it oozing a green liquid.. if this happens pls see a doctor

See a doctor, but the peg leg idea sounds much more interesting.

Oozing out green puss... peg legs... I have a parrot for sale. Free shipping..itching, is often a feeling of healing. If you have ever had surgery, you would know the scar itches like mad! Maybe that is all it is. I'd go back in for a checkup.

First, see a doctor. Immediately. Second, you did not get a STING ray wound -or you would already be dead. You would do best to properly identify the kind of wound you did get, so you can be treated correctly. Good luck.

I'm going through the same thing. About a week ago I was stung by a stingray on the bottom of my foot. Now there is a purple area the size of a dime and it itches like crazy...

Ugh, I'm guessing I need to see a doctor? Is it infected? Antibiotics?

How do I know if my sting ray wound is infected?

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