In a message dated 10/15/2002 9:50:32 AM Central Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:


> The CS worked wonderfully at healing the
> outer skin of her foot.  In fact, it healed it very quickly, in days
> instead of weeks as is expected for this type of staph infection.  BUT
> there must have been some underlying infection and that was untouched, or
> so it seemed because it grew totally out of control within 2 or 3 days to
> the point of a nasty, pus-filled abcess.   But the outer part of her foot
> looked fine and was almost totally healed.
> 

I've read that CS will heal the outer layers VERY quickly sealing the inner 
tissue from the effects from the CS thus causing a 'pocket' much like a 
"hollow socket" when getting a tooth extracted.
We have to consider the infection inside as well.
That's a touchy situation. While not many of us have our pets on CS to any 
large degree.
One might have to use Antibiotics to rid the body of the inner infection. 
Then follow up with "Probiotics" to restore the immune system.
I'm not a vet or doctor. Merely trying to read and put all things in 
reasonable order..............??????
Thom