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.
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
It's a certain type of Strep bacteria. It's like a very severe Staph infection that's sort of like flesh eating bacteria and is extremely resistant to antiobiotics including penicillin. That's about all I know. I found most of the little I know on WebMD.
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.
Yeah, his is the flesh eating type. They scooped out what they could from the tissue in his arm. He had surgery on it today. But they're not sure what else is left or how far it's spread.
That's something we can buy? Anyway, I'm nowhere near him unfortunately. The doctors will know this and use it then I hope?
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.
Thanks shorty. I hope so, too. I think it was caught pretty early (I hope). It started as a brown recluse bite (which is poisonous) which then also got infected.
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.
Although, I was told today they're bringing in someone from the CDC tomorrow to look at him. That didn't sound good to me.
