how do you get a brain abscess? i tried looking it up but all i got was this: Direct extension may occur through necrotic areas of osteomyelitis in the posterior wall of the frontal sinus. This direct route of intracranial extension is more commonly associated with chronic otitic infection than with sinusitis. Contiguous spread could extend to various sites in the central nervous system, causing cavernous sinus thrombosis; retrograde meningitis; and epidural, subdural, and brain abscess. has anyone here ever had one?
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Brain abscess
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It sounds very nasty. Do you have one?
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no, i guess i'm just curious about "very nasty" things.
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what i really meant to ask was can you get one from sharing needles?
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Only if you were injecting your brain, I'd have thought. But it's a good way to get AIDS, and a lot of other blood-borne diseases.
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well if you had aids why wouldn't you get a huge buildup of puss and bacteria eating away your brain after sharing a dirty needle?
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That's a stretch. Aids results from a virus. Although your immune system would be weakened, I wouldn't count on acquiring a brain abscess.
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so the chances of getting an abscess in your brain due to bacteria in your blood would be low?
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Lol. Who knows? I think the chances of getting a brain abscess are very low, period. People with AIDS have a viral infection in their blood. That doesn't imply that they have a bacterial infection as well.
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but people with aids would be more likely to get a bacterial infection, wouldn't they?
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Sure, but my point is that the link is very tenuous, I would guess that brain abscesses would more commonly result from untreated infections on your face, head, ears, sinus, etc. What makes you so interested?
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After looking more closely at your initial post, it seems like these abscesses are most commonly associated with chronic, untreated ear infections (otitic infections).