Feb
MRSA is serious. Its due to our over use of antibiotics and people not finishing antibiotics. That enables pathogens to become resistant to certain antibiotics. Evceryone wants a script, but not everyone needs them. Over use of antibiotics is rearing its head. Plus people stop taking antibiotics when they feel better. That means the antibiotic killed weaker pathogens but was stopped before the stronger ones where killed. That leads to new strains and drug resistant strains.
MRSA has been rampant in healthcare settings for some time now. Suddenly the news media got a hold of it and now its big news. Its always been there. Now you know about it. Same threat, you just didn't know about it a year ago.
In the hospital I work at, every other room has pts with MRSA. This is nothing new. Everyone has staph on their skin. Its when it gains a portal of entry (cuts, pimples on athletes butts etc) that it becomes a problem.
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Yes sometimes it's treatable sometimes it's not. Most likely they can treat it if it hasn't manifested too much.
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MRSA stands for Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, and is a bacterial infection resistant to antibiotic methicillin.
MRSA usually infects hospital patients who are elderly or very ill. You may be at more risk if you have had frequent, long-term, or intensive use of antibiotics. Intravenous drug users and persons with long-term illnesses or who are immuno-suppressed are also at increased risk.MRSA rarely infects healthy people.
MRSA is resistant to many antibiotics and can be difficult to treat there are a few antibiotics that can cure MRSA infections.
There are two types of MRSA. Hospital-acquired MRSA (HA-MRSA) and Community acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA).
I wouldn't be to worried about MRSA unless you have come in contract with a person who has it, and your immune system sucks. I am a paramedic and have been exposed to it many times, and I am fine.
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one thing you have got to do is keep yourself clean. when you have an open cut or wound, keep it clean.
i work at the hospital. our hospital is a "hotbed" for mrsa outbreak since the hurricane ivan three years ago.
most people i see that are infected are people that are not washing themselves a lot….
nursing home patients are often prone to mrsa outbreaks…
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Everything Cathryn said is right.
But really, most of the infection is within the hospitals, not so much out in the public.
I actually just got over a mrsa infection. I am immunosuppressed after a stem cell transplant and allergic to several antibiotics. Mine was hospital aquired. About 80% of all in patients are infected, and the majority were infected in the hospital/doc's office
But for most strains there are things that can treat them. I was treated with just a normal broad spectrum antibiotic.
What sucks is that it can take a while for the cultures to show it is mrsa, and then they have to do the sensitivity testing to see which antibiotics it is best treat with.
Best defense really is just wash your hands constantly. Keep some of that anti-germ gel(like Purel Hand Sanitizer or GermX) and use it every time you turn around.