I got a small skin boil many months ago. I was given an antibiotic that caused a fever of 101 and I was unable to finish the medication. It seemed as if the staph infection went away but it came back. I took another antibiotic, and took baths in epsolm salt, and it went away. Then another boil came up again. It's always on the inner upper thigh and it's so sore. Is there any permanent relief from this?
2007-12-23 17:05:15 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Skin Conditions
MRSA is staph, it is an antibiotic resistant form of stapholococcus aureus.
To be rid of it usually requires intravenous antibiotic therapy with Vancomycin. Talk to your doctor, the boil should be cultured to identify the staph organism that is causing the repeated outbreak, it may just be a different form of staph and sensitive to some other antibiotic, but it has to be cultured and identified.
2007-12-23 17:14:11 · answer #1 · answered by essentiallysolo 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
here's what i learned - when you get an infection and start taking antibiotics you are supposed to complete them. let's say you have 5 pills to take. sometimes people take only a few and they start to feel better. well what is happening is that there are bacteria in the body and when you get a lot of them it causes a reaction. the antibiotic usually kicks in after a few days (ie you feel better). even though you feel better, the meds haven't killed all of the bacteria - only some of it. so when you quit in the middle, more of them grow back and they become resistant to antibiotics. sounds like you need more potent meds.
2007-12-24 01:11:09 · answer #2 · answered by orange_blue_star 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋