My daughter came home from high school & said a friend in school has an active case of MRSA. Should I worry?

Answer 1

Explain the importance of hand washing, the use of hand sanitizers, and not sharing personal items. I've explained to my kids that they shouldn't share anything in the locker such as deodorants, cosmetics, or anything else. Look for any open oozing boils, or pimples. If you don't see anything, then I'm sure your daughter is fine. Notify the school in case they don't know.

Answer 2

My sons school sent a MRSA fact sheet home and
MRSA is spread by touching the infected skin or wound of anyone who has MRSA
Sharing objects such as towels or athletic equipment with someone who has MRSA.
MRSA bacteria are found mainly on the skin, in the nose, in wounds, or in blood and urine. They can also be found in other body sites. It is most likely to cause infection when a person has a break in the skin or other openings where bacteria can get inside the body. Common skin conditions caused by MRSA include infected cuts, boils, infected hair follicles, fluid filled blisters,&skin sores that look like insect bites. Make sure she washes her hands a lot ot use hand sanitizer. If you go to the website of your local health dept. you can find infoon preventing the spread of mrsa in the home and in the community. I would also go to the Centes for Disease Control and Prevention website.

Answer 3

MRSA can kill you. This is a bacteria with some amazingly resistant sub-strains, some of which are quite horrific in nature. Worrying will not solve the problem. Education and preventative measures are what's required.

Symptoms of MRSA will vary. This is dependant upon which area of the body is affected with the mrsa or staph infection.

The most common symptom of MRSA presents as a skin infection. Very often this appears as an abscess or perhaps a boil. Many look like a spider bite. If MRSA has infected a surgical or accidental wound, the symptom of the surrounding area would be painful and red in colour with swelling and pus.

Urinary tract infections and bacteraemia (blood poisoning) can also be caused by MRSA infection. One of the worst infections is when staph bacteria enter the lungs and cause pneumonia. The symptom of this infection are normally a high fever and difficulty in breathing.

Staph infection can in certain cases, result what people call a "flesh eating bug" type of bacterium being developed. These bacterium are called "necrotizing fasciitis" but are very rare. "Flesh eating bacterium" however, is not correct. The bacterium do not actually consume the tissue. They actually cause the destruction of skin and muscle by releasing toxins (virulence factors).

These include streptococcal pyogenic exotoxins and other virulence factors. S. pyogenes produces an exotoxin known as a superantigen. This toxin is capable of activating T-cells non-specifically. This causes the overproduction of cytokines that over-stimulate macrophages. The macrophages cause the actual tissue damage by releasing oxygen free radicals.

Staphylococcus aureus has been rapidly spreading world-wide and certain strains have become drug resistant to many antibiotics. This seems on course to become an even greater problem in the future. Some researchers and reporters have suggested an enormous growth in the next few years, as medications become more difficult to find.

MRSA symptoms can vary and are usually spread by contact with contaminated items or people. Dependant upon the strain, some are fully treatable while others may cause concern to life. Hospitals, Gymnasiums, Care Homes, Nursing Homes, in fact, anywhere where contact may be shared with other people or items, are the most likely places to contract a staph infection

MRSA and its resistance to over used antibiotics, makes it a serious and sometimes very difficult to treat problem, especially in people who have a weakened immune system.

MRSA is now resistant to these antibiotics;
Vancomycin
Methicillin
Amoxicillin
Penicillin
Oxacillin

This is dependent upon strain but Staph aureus is very adaptive to forming new resistance to any antibiotic.

Many people are reporting that sulfameth/trimethoprim 800/160 is being prescribed by many Doctors to treat the symptoms of MRSA. Unfortunately, this drug has many bad side effects. It can cause fatigue, withdrawal, loss of appetite, soreness in joints, headaches and stomach sickness.

As with all drugs, the side-effects can actually cause more problems and contribute to the resistance level of the bacteria, where the treatment is discontinued because of disabilitating side effects.

The New Silver Solution has no toxicity and no known side effects. It is also a fact that no bacterium has ever been recorded in having or developing a resistance to a metallic mineral element.

http://www.mrsamedical.com/

Answer 4

Encourage her not to share gym clothes with anyone and to bring dirty gym clothes home; there have been MANY MANY cases of MRSA spreading because of kids playing sports who share gym clothes with open sores and cause bacteria to spread, etc.

And also, encourage her to wash her hands/use hand sanitizer as often as possible (like the above said).

Answer 5

YES!!!
Make sure that she wash her hands often in school and wash when she comes home from school.

The school should sent out letters to parents to confirm the MRSA cases.

Answer 6

Yes. You should ring the high school and ask what the heck is going on. You dont want or need that in your life.

Answer 7

Encourage her to consistently wash her hands...have her carry and use hand sanitizer as well.