Good article at MRSA beyond the halls of the hospital. As he mentions, most do start there, but MRSA finds it’s way into other parts of society, like the tanning bed mentioned here I had a client who was treating a family who had the MRSA infection from one member being in the hospital, and the office was going crazy trying to stop the infection as it was moving from one family member to another, so here it may have been the family may have needed to step up some hygiene and perhaps washing hands more often could help.
After each visit by a member of that family, the staff would go on a cleaning rampage, and rightly so, to clean and disinfect anywhere the patients had been and surfaces touched. The family had been educated many times on what to do to stop the spread, but for a series of months, they just kept passing it from one member to another, adults and children. The practice was looking for some way to report the incident since efforts to cure and prevent the spread were seeming to be useless.
In posting on the blog I ran across this inexpensive device that is a USB microscope. Something like this could be helpful as well when 
needing a closer look and at less than $300.00 it could fit in anywhere when needing a closer look and has a stand whereby contact is not necessary for inspection of an area. BD
My 25-year-old patient tried to ignore his swollen right knee. But the redness and throbbing pain from a skin infection kept getting worse. After two days of gutting it out, the strapping construction worker showed up in my office with a large abscess on his right leg and a new one starting on his left foot. An infection was spreading through the surrounding skin, and I had to drain the wounds surgically. A sample I sent to the lab showed the infection was caused by bacteria that are resistant to some of the most commonly used antibiotics.
About 85% of MRSA infections can be traced back to a hospital stay and two-thirds occur after a patient has arrived back home. But 15% of the infections can't be linked to a hospitalization. That was the case for my construction worker.
MRSA spreads easily in close quarters like classrooms, locker rooms and lunch rooms. I've seen several cases from tanning beds. Athletes should shower right after practice. The same goes for anyone using shared equipment at the gym.
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An MRSA infection never really goes away once you get it. Not all the bacteria dies and hides in your body to resurface at another time, this time most likely to the antibiotic you thought got rid of it last time. Prevention is key to never get this that first time. It's up to each one of us as individuals to protect ourselves and our children. www.mrsahelp.com has a video and other stuff to educate and help us stay MRSA free. It helped me and my family.
ReplyDeleteYou are right on the money there, we have to be informed and aware patients as MRSA is a battle that nobody wants and the strains out there today are deadly.
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