HAVE YOU GUYS HEARD OF MRSA. IT IS A VERY BAD STAFF INFECTION. METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS. IT IS A DEAL AND IT IS KILLING PEOPLE. IT STARTS OUT LIKE A BOIL OR EVEN A PIMPLE. THEN GETS VERY LARGE VERY FAST. IT GETS IN YOUR BLOOD STREAM. MY FATHER IS IN THE HOSPITAL AND HAVING SURGERY IN THE MORNING FOR IT. AS A NURSE I HAVE SEEN ABOUT 10 PATIENTS THIS MONTH ALONE WITH IT. IF YOU THINK YOU MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING THAT SOUNDS LIKE THIS GO TO THE DOCTOR ASAP.
2006-06-30 17:33:43 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
I think the whole world has heard of this bug quite a few years ago...you just show how much of a liar you are by stating that. Are you looking for sympathy or attention? There's a term for that used by many psychiatrists, y'know...tut, tut, tut.
As for being a nurse, you're the most childish, irresponsible, uneducated and spiteful nurse I have ever met and I've worked with many in my time.
An minor example of your behaviour: http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AiAINXdUIyEDbMCJvCfcunUgBgx.?qid=20060627002724AA3Yu20
2006-07-01 06:47:54 · answer #1 · answered by googlywotsit 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a specific strain of the "Staphylococcus aureus" bacterium that has developed antibiotic resistance to all penicillins, including methicillin and other narrow-spectrum β-lactamase-resistant penicillin antibiotics.[1] MRSA was first discovered in the UK in 1961 and is now widespread, particularly in the hospital setting where it is commonly termed a superbug.
Historically, staph infections begin only after the individual has suffered a skin break or open wound. Recently, due to institutional overuse of antibiotics, strains of "staphylococcus aureus" have developed drug resistance. If an individual has a weak immune response to the bacteria, a MRSA infection can result even with no apparent open wound. The symptoms can range from skin boils to necrotizing fasciitis, popularly known as flesh-eating disease.
2006-07-01 14:05:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whoa there if you are a nurse, which I highly doubt, you are giving medical advise falsely without a license. That is grounds for loss of license!
MRSA is not going to present as a boil or pimple. It is going to be introduced via an open wound.
It has been around for many years. The first documented case was the tampax scare of so many years ago. When people quit using/buying tampax, because someone died from an infection from one.........
Staph lives everywhere, and is all over your body. The overuse of antibiotics for so many years caused a strain of staph that is resistant to the most often used antibiotics. Methacillian Resistant Staph Aureis is this bug. Now the use of some high powered antibiotics are needed to irradicate it from a person who has it.
In order for this strain of staph to get in your body you must have an opening to a blood stream. The first case with the tampax the lady in Texas was a nurse who had it on her hand after contacting it from a person in the hospital. She put the bug into the place it so likes to grow.....a dark, moist place and there was a flow of blood. So it got in her blood stream.
2006-07-01 08:39:05 · answer #3 · answered by Need an answer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
See this recent thread, and you don't sound like any RN I've ever met. MRSA is common and has been around for ages. If you were a nurse you would have studied it in nursing school and this would not be such a great discovery to you that would require the use of all caps.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Akop2uvbV0FzL2vLKajmy9fsy6IX?qid=20060627184606AAMWFW2
2006-07-01 00:43:44 · answer #4 · answered by GVD 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure if it was the same thing but my sister in law got put in the hospital over a staff infection that put her in toxic shock. Doctor said if she would have waited even 24 hours more she could have died from it. Very serious stuff!
2006-07-01 00:39:57 · answer #5 · answered by mikey 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you sure you are a RN? Just about every pt. we deal with has MRSA. IT starts as an infection... it can appear as a pimple or boil... or come up in your urine or sputum.... I will agree it is very bad. Your dad needs some vanc.
2006-07-05 20:27:49 · answer #6 · answered by emmadropit 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I've not only heard about MRSA but I've worked with patients that have in a wound, blood, and even sputum. It's important to protect yourself by gloving and masking, and washing your hands.
2006-07-01 00:37:28 · answer #7 · answered by crystalanne 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a "Nosocomial" infection (hospital induced).It is reported that many hospitals harbor this resistant infection.
Those who have this infection are those who recently visited hospital for some other reason.
Nosocomial infections and "iatrogenic diseases (treatment induced ailments )are not diagnosed by doctors.
2006-07-01 08:37:22 · answer #8 · answered by J.SWAMY I ఇ జ స్వామి 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't think you need to worry about that. patients who are diagnosed with it are isolated and health care providers take extra precautions when dealing with them. sounds deadly, well it is but doesn't mean there's no cure for it. (there is -- it's vancomycin IV)
i've dealt with MRSA patients already -- i don't look sick, do i? and i get annual blood tests to see if everything is "ok"
2006-07-01 16:00:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had a huge boil come up recently..but it was weird as..like there was a hole in it...it left a nasty *** scar. Was about the size of a quarter.
Luckily it wasn't that.
2006-07-01 00:37:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋