Does anyone know anything about MRSA infections? My dad was just diagnosed and I can't be with him right now so I'm a bit nervous. How serious is this? I read an article that said it kills more people a year than AIDS every year since 2005. Is it still this fatal or is there a cure? Anyone know? I tried searching for awhile but I couldn't find enough to reassure me.
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morow it depends on a lot of factors. The age of the pt, the strain of infection, the type of infection (is it local to the skin or is it sistemic through the whole body) the general level of health of the pt
The reason it kills so many is because it effects the elderly and the imunocompromised so often.
As for a cure there are some heavy duty antibotic which have been shown to still work but hospitals dont like to use them incase MRSA becomes resistant to those as well
The reason it kills so many is because it effects the elderly and the imunocompromised so often.
As for a cure there are some heavy duty antibotic which have been shown to still work but hospitals dont like to use them incase MRSA becomes resistant to those as well
I have never heard of this? what is it exactly?
The wiki is your friend
tl;dr
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is a bacterium. They're resistant to a wide spectrum of antibiotics, so are difficult to treat. This is bad, because S. aureus can be a flesh-eating strain, necrotizing tissue and causing all sorts of horrid stuff. Without antibiotics, doctors are stuck with amputating and removing tissue.
Buy him vancomycin immediately!
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections continue to cause serious nosocomial infections in many hospitals. Measures used to control the spread of these infections include ongoing laboratory-based surveillance, placing colonized and infected patients in isolation, use of barrier precautions and handwashing and hand antisepsis. Culturing hospitalized patients at high risk of acquiring MRSA can facilitate detection and isolation of colonized patients. Eradicating MRSA nasal colonization among affected patients and healthcare personnel has also been as a control measure, with variable success. Eradicating MRSA nasal carriage from epidemiologically-implicated healthcare workers has been used on a number of occasions to control outbreaks. Attempts to eradicate MRSA colonization among affected patients has proven difficult. Of more than 40 different decolonization regimens that have been tested during the last 60 years, topical intranasal application of mupirocin ointment has proven to be the most effective. However, intranasal application of mupirocin has limited effectiveness in eradicating colonization in patients who carry the organism at multiple body sites. Furthermore, because decolonization of patients has virtually always been used in combination with other control measures, its efficacy has been difficult to determine. Because MRSA is transmitted primarily on the hands of healthcare workers, greater emphasis should be given to improving hand hygiene practices among health personnel. For patients infected with MRSA, vancomycin remains a drug of choice.
Oh no.....sorry Mrow, hope your Dad gets better.
I have heard of this. It was actually going around in Canada a couple yrs ago. I remember seeing it on the news.
That's something we can buy? Anyway, I'm nowhere near him unfortunately. The doctors will know this and use it then I hope?
call the doctor and remind him of this drug and tell him that he does research on it.
Um, I'm not sure how to call the doctor. He's in an ER. I could call my mom though and have her pass it along. She's there with him. I will be, too, but not until Friday night. And hopefully this will all be better by then.
why not call as soon as you can, immediately. What bad will that do?