Okay, I apparently have a staph infection...Is it supposed to be this horrible?!


Question: I heard it gives pimple-type things, I didn't get anything. My doc told me I had it.
My throat hurts, my stomach hurts, my body overall is weak and such, it stops a lil after I take the medicene (I just did.) and my nose is filled.
And my ear hurts horribly.....like something is going on my eardrum and playing it like a drum :O. Plus I hear a bum-bum-bum-bum-bum for like, the last 12 hrs.
I dunno if this means anything, (I heard somewhere something can get in thru open wounds.) but I have a few cuts in my mouth from my braces rubbing against it so much, they don't hurt.
I also had surgery about 2 months back, oral removing 2 teeth. And I had strep 2 weeks ago.
If it helps, I am 13


Answers: I heard it gives pimple-type things, I didn't get anything. My doc told me I had it.
My throat hurts, my stomach hurts, my body overall is weak and such, it stops a lil after I take the medicene (I just did.) and my nose is filled.
And my ear hurts horribly.....like something is going on my eardrum and playing it like a drum :O. Plus I hear a bum-bum-bum-bum-bum for like, the last 12 hrs.
I dunno if this means anything, (I heard somewhere something can get in thru open wounds.) but I have a few cuts in my mouth from my braces rubbing against it so much, they don't hurt.
I also had surgery about 2 months back, oral removing 2 teeth. And I had strep 2 weeks ago.
If it helps, I am 13

Hi,
I am a doctor..
Well, stap causes different types of infection
Theres are also diferent typesof staph..
Stpah aureus,staph epidermidis...
Then again MRSA, is a Methicillin Resisstant Staph Aureus..
That mean it is reistant to normal antibiotcs but may respond to an antibiotic like vancomycin..

What we need to know that staph can cause different types of infection..
It an be things like pimples, boils..
or it can be a sore throat...ir can cause ear infection..
it can cause even pneumonia..
so what this means is that staph causes different infection, depending on the site it infects in the body...

You may have got a sore throat which caused by staph..
Did your doctor get a swab from your throat and get it confirmed?
with a sore throat, you may get ear ache as well because from the throat, the infection can spread to the middle ear..

So, now are you getting antibiotics?if so, sontinue them.do not miss them..take them on time...take some paracetamol(acetaminophen) so that the pain may decrease a bit..
You should get better with time..
but if you dont get better within 2.3 days..goto the doctor gain..
you may have to change the antibiotic..

Meanwhile, do the followinf things and you may feel much better..

Use salt water to gargle your throat.do it 3 times per day.
When you goto sleep do it as the last thing so that you wont wash you mouth after the salt water gargle.

Do some steam inahaltion.do it about 3 times per day.it would help.
Take some hot water into a bowl.then cover you head with a towel and inhale the steam.

Hope you get well soon..
If you have more queries, write to me...

hmmm...well the only staph infection i know about is mrsa

did your doctor say anything other than telling you you had one? if not that is a pretty sad doctor, because some staph infections can be deadly

also, more than likely the bum-bum sound is your heartbeat





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