question about MRSA in the blood?

Question

I just found out i have MRSA, i thought it was a spider bite until it got as big as a golf ball then i went into the ER and they lanced it and did a wound culture and found out it was MRSA, not even a day an a half later it spread after they had lanced it, now i havent had blood work done yet, but if it is found in the blood does that post an even greater risk of it not being cured?

Answer 1

MRSA stands for methicillin resistant Staphlococcus aureus. Methicillin is a type of antibotic. Here's what happens - your doctor took a wound culture - sent the culture to the lab, and the lab incubated the culture - then the culture grew out the bacteria Staph aureus. Then the lab tests the Staph against antibiotics that are commonly used to kill the bacteria. The term MRSA really just means that the Staph aureus bacteria is resistant to penicillin type antibiotics, which used to be able to treat Staph infections.

MRSA infections used to only occur in patients who had been hospitalized for a long time. Now, due to overuse of antibiotics, MRSA is becoming more common in the community.

Many people get infections with MRSA now - those particularly at risk are those who have been hospitalized recently, been in jail, live in a nursing home, etc.

Frequently, the superficial infection with MRSA will appear like a boil (like yours did). They do not neccessarily spread to the bloodstream

If the MRSA spreads to your blood stream, it can make you very sick. Contrary to what is said above, I would not consider it to be a fatal infection in most normal, relatively healthy people (in the U.S.A.). It is still treatable with antibiotics. It may make it more difficult to rid yourself of the bacteria, but it isn't impossible.

The important thing is that you take good care of yourself, tightly control your blood sugars if you are a diabetic, and see your doctor for treatment and follow-up. Good luck.

Answer 2

My daughter was diagnosed with MRSA last year. She had to have a wound lanced as well. They gave her some cream to put on her wound and some real strong medication.
Now, what I was told at the time was the following: MRSA has become very common. My best friend got treated for it too back in Nov. The only thing about it is that once it is treated, it's fine, it will remain dormant. But if you get a major infection somewhere, you need to get treated immediately to see if it has surfaced again because the MRSA can arise if not treated in time.
The ER doc, and her pediatrician both told me all of this. So, I am telling you what the docs told me.

Answer 3

I find it hard to believe that you are still having a problem and are on the computer (unless it's in the hospital room with you). MRSA is an extremely serious problem (and can eat a hole through your skin) and would take top priority if the physicians suspected that you had it - i.e. blood work is a STAT procedure in this case; and you would be isolated becaue it's extremely contagious. Now you could just have a staph infection and that's the reason they're not rushing the procedure - if this is the case, then you can be cured ... antibiotics would include penicillin/methicillin. If you have MRSA indeed (still hard to believe), then the best bet at survival would be if the physician's administer Vancomysin as a last resort...death from MRSA usually occurs within 3 days to 1 week if left untreated.

Answer 4

If you had MRSA in your blood you would be pretty sick. You would be spiking high fevers.
What a lot of people are unaware of, is that a lot of us carry MRSA in our bodies, in our nasal passages. This does not normally cause infections, you just harbor the organism there. But if you are immunosupressed or if you have a cut/break in your skin, pick your nose and then mess with the open area, your transmit the infection there and then viola, you develop a boil or furuncle- which with MRSA is usually big and full of pus. Sometimes just draining the wound properly takes care of things. Doing a blood culture would be a good idea, but they should also swab your nose to see if you are a nasal carrier which is why the infection keeps cropping up.

Answer 5

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus mrsa is considered to be fatal infection. But I know a person who has miraculously come out of theproblem after having been confirned of MRSA infection. Pl contact the karnataka state PharmacyCouncil on 080-23404000 Bangalore and ask for the tel no of Mr K N Shanbough. Speak to him. maybe he would guide you better

Answer 6

yes it does it is resistant to very powerful antibiotics such as methicillin hence the name methicilin resistant staph aureus mrsa. when it reaches the circulatory system it spread everywhere quickly due to the nature of the circulatory system which pumps blood everywhere. contact ur doc or lab for the test