Do you think it would be possible to cure an infected person?
Hey guys, so I've recently thought about this.
What if you were actually able to stop an infection if you were to act fast and had the proper medical supplies?
Now, I did not study medicine, but here's what I understand:
1. After someone was bitten by an infected zombie, the zombie sinks their teeth in a victim's skin, causing a wound and bacteria from their mouth and saliva to get into the wound.
2. Infection is never instant in a real-life situation. If you have, say, experience in medicine, have the proper medical supplies and perhaps even a doctor near you, a real-life infection could be cured almost instantly.
Now, if you were infected and had so much experience and expertise in medicine, and acted fast, do you think you'd be able to cure your infection?
As soon as you get bitten and kill the zombie, you clean your wound with a medicinal towel, then pour a lot of peroxide on the wound, clean it again and swallow some anti-bacterial pills (I'm not sure those exist) and do whatever you can with the medicine you have to get cured.
So, what do you think? Vote in the poll and then post your opinion.
What if you were actually able to stop an infection if you were to act fast and had the proper medical supplies?
Now, I did not study medicine, but here's what I understand:
1. After someone was bitten by an infected zombie, the zombie sinks their teeth in a victim's skin, causing a wound and bacteria from their mouth and saliva to get into the wound.
2. Infection is never instant in a real-life situation. If you have, say, experience in medicine, have the proper medical supplies and perhaps even a doctor near you, a real-life infection could be cured almost instantly.
Now, if you were infected and had so much experience and expertise in medicine, and acted fast, do you think you'd be able to cure your infection?
As soon as you get bitten and kill the zombie, you clean your wound with a medicinal towel, then pour a lot of peroxide on the wound, clean it again and swallow some anti-bacterial pills (I'm not sure those exist) and do whatever you can with the medicine you have to get cured.
So, what do you think? Vote in the poll and then post your opinion.
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Exactly, once you die whether bitten or not you turn into a zombie. TWD has so far not revealed how it started so for all we know the "virus" is airborne.
its the walking dead rules
But I think the only way to stop this infection is by amputating the limb(s) that were bitten, and very quickly at that. Once the virus takes over, and you die and come back as a zombie, there can be no cure because you're already dead.
It would be nice to think that, and it actually makes sense I guess. I'm not a medical person, so all I know of this is what I've read in the comics. There, the only cure was a quick amputation. If it were possible to save someone from a bite EP3 would have been actually bearable
It's not about medical supplies, but if you can cut of the bitten part fast enough. If I'm not completly wrong, there was such a thing in the comics. It might have been Dale, but I'm not 100% sure about it.
Also:
MAJOR SPOILER
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED
The infected bacteria can be neutralized and killed with certain meds (such as peroxide, I have had a huge wound on my leg which could have been infected but I treated it asap with a bottle of peroxide and medicinal cloth.
So dying causes you to rise from the dead as a zombie.
And bites cause blood infections and kill you unless you can stop the infection from spreading. But no one really has antibiotics in the apocalypse, so that's why you might as well cut off the limb.
The only thing I've ever seen stop a bite from turning the victim is a speedy amputation.
I think all that is a good idea but will not make any difference. At best, maybe, and I mean maybe, the infection rate will be slowed down a small amount. The best medicine in what Morgan said "don't you get bit!".
If there's, say, a small or medium amount of bacteria on the wound, if you used peroxide on it, all of it, or most of it would be eliminated and the rest that is inside your organism would be fought off by your organism's self-defense against viruses and bacteria. It really depends on how much is in your system.
Our bodies survive because they are capable of defending themselves from viruses and bacteria. Zombie bacteria is no different, it just has much, much bigger consequences.
if i bite you hard you will need antibiotics, let alone if i had been dead for a few weeks and i bite you
Disclaimer: Most of my medical knowledge in this matter comes from disaster B-movies.
The interesting question here is - if you controlled the situation entirely, cleaned a zombie's mouth, disinfected the wound and cleaned everything perfectly, would the bite still kill you? Dale has avoided turning because of an amputation, so it's not a supernatural event. You have to die by physical means, it's not simply triggered by the bite. My theory is yes, a perfectly controlled disinfected bite would not turn someone. But until Kirkman gives an example of a shiny toothed zombie who bites someone in a newly refurbished hospital, we won't know.
A zombie with dentures?
Once you're bitten it's game over. Unless you have the luck of being bitten on place that can be amputated.
i think that whole CDC part was so silly it should have been a dream, the idea that hundreds of science geeks would want to leave a secure bunker to be with their family and die is just stupid, it was just the TV way of saying "no cure, the end"
I think the answer would depend on what's more convenient to the plot.
Wooden Toothed Zombie Washington?
I'm pretty sure Kirkman never wants to explain the phenomena. It goes against his world to give it hard rules.
And a high five. We can't forget the importance of regular high fives. I saw it on Scrubs so it has to be medically relevant.
or the eye
or the temple
or the forehead