my husband has come out of hospital four weeks ago had little toe of has been told he has mrsaat home now?

Question

as i have young grandchrildren to make the house clean for them i wash the toilet with dettol and work surface down and the floor can i do anythink esle to be safe

Answer 1

What to do at home

Being discharged home from hospital or care home is an important step on the road to recovery.

You and your family may be worried about being at home in view of the strict measures that may have been practised while you were in hospital. These measures were aimed at controlling and reducing the spread of all germs, not just MRSA, to other vulnerable patients who are at risk because of their illness or surgery.

At home these risks are reduced but it is important that you continue to follow good personal hygiene rules (whether you have MRSA or not!):

Wash and dry your hands:

after going to the toilet and blowing your nose
before and after dealing with a wound
before and after assisting with personal care for any other member of your family
after you do household tasks such as cleaning
before eating or drinking.
If unfortunately, you have to be re-admitted to hospital or another place of care - please tell your nurse if you were MRSA positive when you were last an inpatient.

Answer 2

Don't forget things like doorhandles and lightswitches and the phone - basically surfaces that will be touched as that is how many diseases are transmitted - by contact with contaminated surfaces.

However, it's the sort of thing that you should only do in instances of serious infectious disease like MRSA, it's not really suitable for every day otherwise as people need to be exposed to germs to be able to build an immune response against them.

Answer 3

Wash your hands, his hands and the little ones' hands at every opportunity. Don't let them kiss grandad (most of us carry MRSA but are not ill with it). You're doing a grand job - you just need to keep up the good work.

Answer 4

Hopefully your husband had appropriate VANCOMYCIN drug therapy and should now be free of MRSA.
Rather than worry yourself senseless, you should ensure that he visits your local medical centre for swabs to be taken, so that an MRSA 'screen' can be re-done. This may then put your minds at rest....But ordinary levels of social hygiene should be adequate.

Answer 5

don't wash any of the child's clothes in same cycle try to keep his separate bed clothes too its just an extra precaution but it might help

Answer 6

These things come in 3's so dont think there is much hope for him.

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