2007-10-16 11:41:37 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
It'd be pretty damn hard. Staph aureus doesn't live in the stomach - the acids and whatnot are very good at killing it. (As an aside, there IS a form of staph food poisoning caused by staph aureus but what happens in this condition is that the staph lives in the food and produces toxins - one then eats the food and the staph dies in the stomach and the toxins survive to cause all sorts of havoc in the intestines. Generally causes a short term vomiting/diarrhea picture.)
That being said, most people become colonized (meaning the bacteria is living on your skin) by staph aureus by simple contact. Most folks who are colonized by staph aureus don't know about it and don't find out about it until/unless an infection develops.
You or I might be colonized with staph aureus now and not know about it. I don't worry about it, however, and suggest you do the same.
2007-10-17 18:10:03 · answer #1 · answered by Doxycycline 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Staphylococcus Aureus typically lives within the nose but, during surgery staph is typically what infects their surgical site. In vomit? I would have to say chances are no.
2007-10-16 12:04:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yup; staf is highly contagous.
2007-10-16 11:49:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure, and EW.
2007-10-16 11:48:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋