Son Diagnosed with MRSA Yesturday. Do You Have Akid with Mrsa?

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Please let me know if you have any questions.

MRSA is very serious stuff..usually they treat with antibotics of some sort...my mother just got out of Hershey from an operation and went to HealthSouth for rehab...she got MRSA in her wounds...they put her in isolation and made you wear gowns and gloves to visit....and not to touch her or anything in her room with out gloves on.

MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus which just means it a strain of Staph infection that is resistant to many of the most common antibiotics. MRSA infections used to be limited to hospital settings, but are increasing common in the community (ie, not hospitals) and are most often from an unknown origin. I would send you to the CDC's site for community aquired MRSA: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/ar_mrsa_ca_public.html

You have my deepest empathies! I can understand and relate to your anxiety.
My son got diagnosed w/ MRSA just before he turned 1 (turned out just to be a Staph infection & not MRSA, but terrifying, none the less!). PLUS, it's in his DIAPER AREA of all places, so a little too close for either of our comfort, I'm sure! Nobody wants staph that close to their junk! lol

We use Manuka Honey on it when he gets one now & have had AMAZING luck w/ it! Extremely effective & no chance of a resistance forming, really. It's a special medicinal honey from New Zealand that you have to get from a health food store. It is expensive for a honey, but you don't need much at all & like I said, it's very effective. Just apply it w/ a qtip a few times a day & cover it w/a bandaid.

If you live anywhere near Easton/Bethlehem, Essense of Health on 25th Street carries it regularly.

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Good luck!

Hello,
Thankfully, my children have never had MRSA, but I did. When my son was only 6 weeks old, I was hospitalized with it. Please do not let the infection get out of control. Be sure it is healing and not spreading every day. Follow your doctor's instructions carefully and be sure to keep his wound covered so not to spread it. My understanding is that MRSA can live in body cavities (kinda gross, nasal and anal) at any given time in ANY healthy individual. When it becomes scary is when it enters the bloodstream, through any type of opening in the skin. I wish you the best of luck and complete healing for your son!

My son was diagnosed with MRSA about a year and a half ago and we had no idea where he got it. The doctor did tell us that about 90% of the population are carries of it (carried in the nostriles of the nose), but never develope any signs from it. Needless to say my other son then came down with it and then I myself ended up with MRSA. My one son even had to have surgery to remove the MRSA from his body. Anyways, I made sure to bath the children seperatly and clean the tub with Chlorox bleach spray after and before anyone used it. I also washed our clothes seperately in the hottest water possible with Chlorox 2. After several months and many doses of antibiotics and washing our bodies with a special wash we have managed to rid our household of this horrible infection. I still do the above things (I do wash our clothes together again) to prevent it from coming back. We have now all been MRSA free for about a year. Good Luck! I know this can be very frightning (the internet is filled with horror stories) and a lot of extra work, but just know that it is possible to get rid of it.

Make sure that you speak with the doctor about having the whole family tested and/or treated for MRSA. I have had 2 nephews and a niece hospitalized for MRSA within the last month. Our entire family has to be treated for MRSA. An earlier poster was right, MRSA lives in your nose. The test for it is simple, a swab inside the nose. Unless it is treated at the source, it will keep coming back.
HTH
B.

Staffolocaucus bacteria have been around for a long time. Bacteria also live on the skin and all around us, it's just that sometimes they get tough (and we get weak, i.e. the wound) and they infect us. I wouldn't go on a mental witch hunt trying to figure out where it came from. Do watch the size of the wound -- circle it with a sharpie so you know for sure how big the red area is. Then watch to see if it's going down or increasing. If it is doing ANYTHING other than getting smaller, after a couple of days, CALL THE DOCTOR to see if your son needs a stronger medication. There are tons of antibiotics in the arsenal, and they will use progressively tougher stuff if it doesn't clear up. Your PCP should be made aware of what is going on, and be sure your doctor knows what was prescribed at the ER. Since it's a staff infection, I would think the doc's will want to monitor this closely.

(for ex.: I had a staff infection in my epesiotomy (can't spell it, sorry) after child #2. The doctor put me on some heavy duty antibiotics and had me come into the office every 2-3 days until he was 100% sure it was clearing up and healing. My now adult daughter just had knee surgery, and one of her stitch lines got infected, and they had her come into the office IMMEDIATELY, prescribed antibiotics on a Friday, and saw her again on Monday. No one cultured it for MRSA, but they did act upon it immediately. (of course, surgical wounds are deeper than scraped knees, so there's an unhealed path to the inner sanctums of the body, but even so, you need to be proactive and be sure your doctor is doing the same.)

The other thing you can do is buy Betadine. It is brown, like iodine, but doesn't sting. When you change his bandage, use a cotton swap and coat the cut and the surrounding area with it -- it is what they use to clean the body prior to surgery. And, since it is MRSA, which is a nasty little bugger, I would use a cotton swap for the infected area, and a separate, clean one, to coat the surrounding skin. And Wash your hands before and after you play with his wound.

Wash your hands thoroughly, rubbing them well under the water. The rubbing and the water flow will really help to get germs off if you scrub up, whether you use an antibacterial soap. Everyone in the family should be making a point to wash their hands before the eat, and stuff like that. Washing your hands is the #1 method to prevent infections from spreading.

Most importantly, don't panic. Be pro-active, pay attention, and call your doctor, because your doctor's office sees this a whole lot more often than you think. And someone should make a point to stay on top of this along with you -- I would not rely on the ER to be my family physician.

The bottom line is that 80% of the people in the world have MRSA living on the exterior of their own bodies. It just happens that this time, it got inside because of the wound. Be watchful and dilligent, and the antibiotic should do the trick. If the infection spreads, be quick to call the doctor. Most MRSA infections are handled fairly quickly by antibiotics -- the problem is that we hear about the traumatic ones.

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My mom had MRSA this spring. she had to have surgery because it settled in her breat bone. keep taking the antibiotics and wash your hands! try not to touch the wound too much and if you do wash your hands. We were told its basically airborne but that she needed to keep her wound covered and the kids had to be careful around it. don't mean to scare you but my mom was pretty sick! Also oprah did a show on it you may find something on her website. Hope things work out.

ok first please don't go around thinking he MUST have gotten it from a 'public' place - that's the beginning of a public health and public relations nightmare. you can get it anywhere in the community.

mrsa is rampant these days, and who knows where his strain came from. could be you, your family members, your pets, ANYONE.

that it was identified, and is being treated is the important thing. and now that he is a carrier, you will have to be diligent about his activity and injury.

My experience with MRSA comes from being an RN. MRSA (methyl-resistant staph aureus) is a strain of staph that is resistant to many antibiotics. However, that doesn't mean it is not treatable. Different antibiotics need to be tried and it often takes longer for the infection to heal. MRSA is transmitted through contact. So, you want to limit the contact with the infected area. When you do touch it be sure to wash you hands thoroughly (15 seconds!) with soap and water. Make sure your son doesn't touch the area either. I would cover the area with gauze, large bandaid, etc. to limit the contact of the infection with other people as well as with objects (the infection can live on surfaces). Wash clothes, towels, linens, etc. in hot water. Because MRSA is spread easily through contact, many schools will not allow students with active infections to participate in sports, etc. to limit the transmission. However, with proper precautions you can prevent the transmission to anyone else. Make sure your son takes the antibiotics exactly as perscribed and take the FULL course of antibiotics- don't stop even if the infection seems better. With proper treatment and precautions your son will be fine and everyone else should be able to stay healthy. Good luck!