Are Staph Infections Contagious?

My son had a bad staph infection in his knee when he was little . . . none of us ever got it. The way I understood it at the time is that staph is everywhere; it's just that sometimes a person's immune system can't fight it off, or it gets in a sore (my son had open sores on his knees from gluten intolerance) and takes hold.

I would call my doctor just to be on the safe side.

Staph is not something to mess with . . . but I would be cautiously optimistic.

Staph is all over. Not to scare you further, but it is. Many many many people carry it on their skin. The way you become infected is the staph bacteria entering an open place on the skin. So if you get cut or scraped, you can get a staph infection at the wound site. THEN it can spread through your bloodstream.

Unless your daughter has some sort of cut/scrape/scratch or wound, then I would not assume that her fever has ANYTHING AT ALL to do with a staph infection on your friend's daughter.
http://kidshealth.org/teen/infections/bacterial_viral/sta...

if it was a true Staph infection, yes they are contagious. In the prime of a fever.

Direct contact is needed usually, unless your baby has any immune deficiency.

Yes and no. You can certainly transfer staph if you come in contact with it, but almost everyone is colonized with it anyways and it only rarely causes problems (e.g. when it gets into an open wound). You actually probably carry it yourself...
That said if you have an infection with a resistant or particularly virulent strain you do want to take precautions against spreading it... hand washing or using an alcohol based sanitizer usually do the job just fine.
Good luck

Very.

Sorry--that's probably not easing your mind.
I would think your daughter would have had to have contact with it though....not sure.
Good luck!

Staph infections are not contagious ur child is I ably fighting a virous

Yes, they are very contagious.

Staph is present on skin. Almost everyone's skin if I'm not mistaken. It only gets you sick if it enters your body through an open wound.

I have had 2 and 4 doctors claim it is not contagious. This seems illogical to me but no one has caught it.