Thought i'd post about an odd sitution

[JamieB]

Just thought i'd ask if anyone here has any ideas. Not a big deal if nobody responds.

A couple weeks ago, my Dad's leg became red, hot to the touch and super painful. He lives an hour away (by himself) so when he told me about it on the phone I sent him to the ER right away, thinking a blood clot. Turned out it was some sort of infection but the doctors had no idea from what. It cleared up in about a week with some strong antibiotics.

Fast forward to the other day and my sister goes to visit my Dad. She spends on night there and the next day her leg has the exact same red and painful spot in the exact same place. Literally exactly the same.

What could this be. The spot was on the inside of their lower leg, right above the ankle. It took up about half of the lower leg, so from above the ankle to halway to the knee.

Also, my sister thinks it could have something to do with their immune systems. She is pregnant and he is an 70yo diabetic.

I'm scared to take my kids there and we love it there.

Also, he has two dogs but has had them for years now. He is not a very clean person anymore( hard for me to say that) and he gardens a lot.

Any ideas?

I'm gonna bring the dogs to the vet to be checked and have some people in to clea his place up but am still worried.

[pianojazzgirl]

Spider bite?

[balancedmama]

I thought spider bite too.

[CarrieMF]

I agree on some sort of a bite. 3-4 years ago I got bit on the leg by a sandfly. The area became quite raised & I had an oval 3-3.5" long & 2-3" wide that was red & HOT. Since then I react to mosquito bites in a very similar way & have to try very hard to not scratch them or they go like that too. The areas stay red & hot for a couple of days. then they turn more of a brownish colour, almost bruised. The swelling takes a few days to go down. Once it starts to go down & the colour fade if it gets bumped or scratched again it comes back.

[staceychev]

Yep. Sounds like a spider bite or another sort of bite.