Super Staph Bug

[cbryan70]

I just find this crazy with this bug. I was around it for about a year with my grandma in the hospital with open wounds. We were all suppose to wear all the gear when going in to see her but obviously that got old. The hospital really didnt even make a big deal about it. We were handling her while she had open wounds...and no one got infected. How is it spread i think its airborn but that just wouldnt make sense to me?

[TX.X-30 fan]

Originally Posted by X2momma

How scary that must have been for you and your wife. So happy to hear that your son is doing well now. Hope he has a very speedy recovery with no complications.

Did you let the preschool know about the infection? Preschools are full of so many germs. Hopefully the school will take precautions and clean like crazy. When a child has an infection like this is the school required to let the state, cdc or parents of kids at the school know?

Funny thing is this could probably be cultured out of your nose, mine and most likely everyone else. Young, old and people with depressed immune systems are more susceptible to thees infections. Staph in everywhere, and these resistant ones were (as bigmac says) caused by indiscriminate over prescription of antibiotics.

Not to question your good intentions, but what exactly could
the "state" do for any of us in a situation like this? I think the CDC already knows whats up, and yes the school should notify the parents.


I find it amusing when Americans look to some govt. agency to insure their health and well being, just seems to me we should look out for ourselves. Looks like with the attitudes of some in the US we are headed for the same disasters with health care so many in Europe and Canada have suffered through for so many years?

On the part about the pre-schools being full of germs, yes they are. This is not all bad, when they are exposed to germs their immune systems developed resistance. At some point we all had to develop these resistances to common bugs. This problem that is getting so much nightly news play time now did not just happen last week when news was slow and Brian Williams decided to do a story on it. Nurses and doctors have been seeing this fo some time now.

In the end the private sector, not the government will find solutions!!

[TMCNo1]

We hope your child continues to do well, keep us informed!

[H20skeefreek]

Yes, keep us informed, your family is in my prayers.

It is really a shame though that the doctor put your family on antibiotics as a preventative, that's not really how they work, and how this MRSA has developed. Very irresponsible on the doc's part. MRSA killed my grandfather in 1999, and my wife got it at the time, it's a nasty, nasty bug, but it's one that was created by the overuse of antibiotics. It's amazing how many times I've been prescribed antibiotics for viral infections like the flu and common cold. They can't even help them. I just don't take them anymore, and neither will my daughter. We'll take them when it can actually help. The pharmaceutical industry has gotten rich enough off of anti-biotic happy doctors destroying the immune systems of Americans.

[Roonie's]

Holy smokes glad he is doing ok. Someone that young with it can be very worrisome. The key is you caught it fast. Our prayers are with your family!

[bigmac]

Originally Posted by H20skeefreek

The pharmaceutical industry has gotten rich enough off of destroying the immune systems of Americans.

Whoa. Indicting the drug mfgrs for MRSA is a conspiracy leap that's not necessarily justified. The concept of prescribing antibiotics indiscriminately falls on the doctors. The pharmaceutical industry has never recommended that antibiotics be prescribed for viral infections, for example. Prescribing indications from the drug companies for antibiotics have always been appropriate and reasonable, even based on what we know now. Exceeding those prescribing recommendations was in large part doctors reacting to the discomfort of their patients who come in with a bad cold (for example) and want to get better. The patients tend to feel cheated if they're feeling miserable, see their doctor, and are sent home from the office with only the intructions to "just take two aspirins and call me in the morning". By god, they want some antibiotics to cure that cold! Unfortunately, doctors tended to succumb to those erroneous expectations and did prescribe those antibiotics in too many instances, even though they knew better. The rationalization by those MD's was that they might be preventing secondary infections...eg a pneumonia or bronchitis that might set in in a patient with a viral upper respiratory infection. Studies have shown that that type of secondary infection is an uncommon enough experience that a prophylactic antibiotic course is unwarranted.

[ShamrockIV]

I am glad he is doing well!!!! We have had some case here in TN and my wife has been really worried!!! We have 4 daughters; 2 in 2nd grade, 1 in K, and 1 in daycare so i guess she has reason to worry!! hope urs gets well soon!!!!!!!!!!

[X2M]

Originally Posted by TX.X-30 fan

Funny thing is this could probably be cultured out of your nose, mine and most likely everyone else. Young, old and people with depressed immune systems are more susceptible to thees infections. Staph in everywhere, and these resistant ones were (as bigmac says) caused by indiscriminate over prescription of antibiotics.

Not to question your good intentions, but what exactly could
the "state" do for any of us in a situation like this? I think the CDC already knows whats up, and yes the school should notify the parents.


I find it amusing when Americans look to some govt. agency to insure their health and well being, just seems to me we should look out for ourselves. Looks like with the attitudes of some in the US we are headed for the same disasters with health care so many in Europe and Canada have suffered through for so many years?

On the part about the pre-schools being full of germs, yes they are. This is not all bad, when they are exposed to germs their immune systems developed resistance. At some point we all had to develop these resistances to common bugs. This problem that is getting so much nightly news play time now did not just happen last week when news was slow and Brian Williams decided to do a story on it. Nurses and doctors have been seeing this fo some time now.

In the end the private sector, not the government will find solutions!!

My questions came from a personal experience that my family had at a pre-school. When kids get certain bugs the pre-schools are required by law to let the state/cdc know and take precautions to keep the rest of their population healthy. This not something new. Nor is it an "american looking to a government agency to insure their health".

[alletric]

Give you an update. He slept through the night and is up and doing well. A little slow to sit down but in good spirits. We go back today and have it repacked at 2:30. That should be fun. The antibiotic is a topical that is suppossed to be swabed in the nose on us. On him it is the same thing plus an oral antibiotic. I think they wanted us to do this in case it was something other than MSRA that the sntibiotics would work on. They won't know for sure until the lab work comes back. Is it still a good idea for us to do the swab? Someone with a Dr's degree only on this one. The Holiday Inn doesn't count. Thank you for all the kind words and thoughts. It means a lot.

[kjohnson]

My mother died from MRSA a little over a year ago. It is no joke and is in most hospitals, nursing homes etc. My mother caught it in a nursing home and it got into her blood and she died within 4 days. Still working on a lawsuit against the nursing home.