http://gaijinmama.wordpress.com/2006/10/12/impetigo/ Living and writing in rural Japan Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:03:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU http://gaijinmama.wordpress.com/2006/10/12/impetigo/#comment-294 jean Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:19:42 +0000 http://gaijinmama.wordpress.com/2006/10/12/impetigo/#comment-294 I hear you on the caterpillar thing as well! One hundred and twenty-five million people all telling me that kemushi are horrific things if they touch you, but no, I knew better than them, right? A similar thing happened to an Australian friend here when she let a mukuge crawl over her bare foot - how bad can it really be?? - she thought. Well I guess the answer was REALLY BAD!! She won't be doing that again... Hmm, perhaps I should hack down that lacquer tree we have, yet another thing that my MIL says will cause untold suffering to us and which I have trouble taking seriously... I hear you on the caterpillar thing as well! One hundred and twenty-five million people all telling me that kemushi are horrific things if they touch you, but no, I knew better than them, right? A similar thing happened to an Australian friend here when she let a mukuge crawl over her bare foot - how bad can it really be?? - she thought. Well I guess the answer was REALLY BAD!! She won’t be doing that again… Hmm, perhaps I should hack down that lacquer tree we have, yet another thing that my MIL says will cause untold suffering to us and which I have trouble taking seriously…

]]> http://gaijinmama.wordpress.com/2006/10/12/impetigo/#comment-293 Gaijin Mama Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:43:34 +0000 http://gaijinmama.wordpress.com/2006/10/12/impetigo/#comment-293 You're right, Jean, it's tobi-hi. I think a doctor here translated it as impetigo for me. A couple of weeks ago, we dealt with the dreaded kemushi, another thing I'd never encountered before coming to Japan. I used to pooh pooh the Japanese fear of caterpillars, but not anymore... You’re right, Jean, it’s tobi-hi. I think a doctor here translated it as impetigo for me. A couple of weeks ago, we dealt with the dreaded kemushi, another thing I’d never encountered before coming to Japan. I used to pooh pooh the Japanese fear of caterpillars, but not anymore…

]]> http://gaijinmama.wordpress.com/2006/10/12/impetigo/#comment-292 Lori Fri, 13 Oct 2006 00:40:10 +0000 http://gaijinmama.wordpress.com/2006/10/12/impetigo/#comment-292 If it helps, I had it twice in the States as a kid...it just happens sometimes (but it is miserable - get well soon!!). If it helps, I had it twice in the States as a kid…it just happens sometimes (but it is miserable - get well soon!!).

]]> http://gaijinmama.wordpress.com/2006/10/12/impetigo/#comment-291 Anonymous Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:09:05 +0000 http://gaijinmama.wordpress.com/2006/10/12/impetigo/#comment-291 Wow, this impetigo sounds nasty - hope the cream helps so that you all can start to feel better soon. Wow, this impetigo sounds nasty - hope the cream helps so that you all can start to feel better soon.

]]> http://gaijinmama.wordpress.com/2006/10/12/impetigo/#comment-290 jean Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:30:44 +0000 http://gaijinmama.wordpress.com/2006/10/12/impetigo/#comment-290 My son had tobi-hi years ago. I translated it at first as impetigo but then, checking it out on the intenet, later thought they were different and that tobi-hi is something that just doesn't exist in North America. Anyway, it sounds like your son has tobi-hi, whatever that is in English! In my son's case, he caught it just before we went home to Canada one summer. No, no, no oral antibiotics for my son, I said, making a big stink at the doctor's (and actually going back into the office to hand him back the prescription he had given us!). Just the cream will be fine. Well the cream was useless; by the time we got off the plane in Canada his face was basically covered in open sores. I had visions of him being the 21st century 'Typhoid Mary;' 'Impetigo Taro' if you will. So off we went lickety split to a clinic in Calgary, heads bowed low and hands tightly clutching a prescription for antibiotics as we left. And so it finally cleared up, but now before I caught it as well. But that's another story... My son had tobi-hi years ago. I translated it at first as impetigo but then, checking it out on the intenet, later thought they were different and that tobi-hi is something that just doesn’t exist in North America. Anyway, it sounds like your son has tobi-hi, whatever that is in English! In my son’s case, he caught it just before we went home to Canada one summer. No, no, no oral antibiotics for my son, I said, making a big stink at the doctor’s (and actually going back into the office to hand him back the prescription he had given us!). Just the cream will be fine. Well the cream was useless; by the time we got off the plane in Canada his face was basically covered in open sores. I had visions of him being the 21st century ‘Typhoid Mary;’ ‘Impetigo Taro’ if you will. So off we went lickety split to a clinic in Calgary, heads bowed low and hands tightly clutching a prescription for antibiotics as we left. And so it finally cleared up, but now before I caught it as well. But that’s another story…

]]> http://gaijinmama.wordpress.com/2006/10/12/impetigo/#comment-289 illahee Thu, 12 Oct 2006 04:55:20 +0000 http://gaijinmama.wordpress.com/2006/10/12/impetigo/#comment-289 oh no! sounds awful. i hope it heals up quickly! oh no! sounds awful. i hope it heals up quickly!

]]>