Melissa Gilbert, 59, spent the night in the ER, cellulitis diagnosis

Melissa Gilbert of Little House On the Prairie spent the night in the emergency room in New York on Thursday night, she revealed.

The 59-year-old actress posed on Instagram for a photo of her hand with an IV in it while wearing a hospital gown in her bed.

Melissa shared that she was diagnosed with an abscess and cellulitis after being swollen from a nasty insect bite, not from a bee or wasp, but from some “flying insect.”

At the time, actor Timothy Busfield’s wife said she had a “Public Service Announcement” for her Instagram followers about how bug bites should be taken seriously.

“Well, that was a fun night in the ER (she said with dripping sarcasm),” the actress began.

“Two days ago a flying insect (not a bee or wasp) but my arm,” she continued. “Last night my arm was incredibly swollen, red and hot. I called my dr @skincarelab he suggested we take it to the ER. I wanted to wait but @timbusfield said “Absolutely not. Let’s go!”‘

Melissa then shared, “After much testing, I was diagnosed with an abscess and cellulite.”

An abscess is a painful collection of pus, usually caused by a bacterial infection. Abscesses can develop anywhere in the body. This article focuses on 2 types of abscesses: skin abscesses – those that develop under the skin. internal abscesses – those that develop in the body, in an organ or in the spaces between organs, according to health service.

Cellulitis is a common, potentially serious bacterial skin infection, according to the Mayo clinic.

The affected skin is swollen and inflamed and is usually painful and warm to the touch. Cellulite usually affects the lower legs, but can appear on the face, arms, and other areas.

She then explained that she was given an IV with clindamycin, benadryl and paracetamol.

Clindamycin in an antibiotic. Benadryl is an antihistamine. It can treat pain and itching caused by insect bites, minor cuts, burns, poison ivy, poison ivy, and poison ivy when applied topically. And acetaminophen is a pain reliever that treats minor aches and pains and reduces fever.

“It immediately started to get better. Still kept me up all night. Starting antibiotics, benedryl and ibuprofen orally today,” the star noted.

‘The lesson-take bug bites seriously! If it swells up a lot (my whole upper arm was swollen!), don’t wait to get treated and think “it’s just a little bite. How bad can it get?” go to your doctor or emergency room or the ER. I mean it!’

She then said, “In the days of #lauraingallswilder, this would have meant death or amputation. Treatment is available. So now I’m going to take my meds and rest like the good bunny that I am. Stupid bug bite.

Gilbert gave a “special shoutout to the @bonsecours hospital in Port Jervis, NY.”

‘Go back to bed now. #bugbite #infectedbugbite #celulitis #celulitisfrombugbite #ouch #ER #emergencyroom #onlyme #itsnotevensummeryet #wtf #somethingbitme #runforrestrun #lovemyhubby @officialmodernprairie.

In 2022, Gilbert revealed that she has ‘quit’ wrestling to maintain her youth.

She used to fall back on measures such as plastic surgery, botox and fillers.

But as she approached middle age, she realized, “I look like a carrot top and I’m not happy,” so she eased into aging gracefully, she shared. People.

Melissa, whose adoptive parents were both actors, entered showbiz when she was just a little girl and got her big break when she was nine.

From then on, she started starring in the TV show Little House On The Prairie which ran for a long time from 1974 to 1982.

After the show ended during her teenage years, she continued to act, but never landed a project that hit the same level as Little House On The Prairie.

She reflected, “I grew up in an industry that values ​​the outside much more than the inside, and I was caught in the wheel of trying to stay young.”

Cosmetic procedures followed, as did fillers and Botox, until she finally reevaluated her conditions in the mid-2010s.

Melissa married her third husband, thirty-something actor Timothy Busfield, in 2013 and moved with him to the small Michigan town of Howell.

Two years after the wedding, she had her breast implants removed and in 2016, she took the extra step to renounce Botox.

“I finally woke up and said, ‘What am I doing? I look like a carrot top and I’m not happy,'” she recently told People about her midlife change.

“My mindset was, ‘You have to stay thin. You have to be seen in the right places, wear the right shoes and drive the right car,'” she explained. “That was so impressed on me by all the outside forces. But it was never right.’

She enjoyed a “newfound love of the outdoors” and “cut off all my hair and stopped Botox and all that stuff.”

Before her breast implants were removed in 2015, Melissa wrote candidly blog post lifting the curtain on her reasons for doing so.

She spent her early life sporting “perfect A-cups” as a “proud, card-carrying member of the Itty Bitty T**** committee” with “no desire to have a Jessica Rabbitesque figure.”

However, there was external pressure, including during the final seasons of Little House On The Prairie where she claimed, “I had to wear a padded bra.”

After welcoming and nursing her first son Dakota in 1989, her first husband Bo Brinkman reportedly described her breasts as “marbled socks with buttons at the top,” she wrote in the blog post.

Though the marriage ended, her insecurities stayed with her, and after years of wearing padded bras all the time, she finally opted for surgery.

Her perspective evolved as time went on and she was advised to have the implants replaced “every 10-15 years.”

She realized, “I may have to get new implants at 80!” and finally decided to have them removed altogether.