From what I've read and heard there is no cure for MSRA. How do you know if !
Question: It's time to make a distinction between MRSA and MRSA infections. MRSA is the bacteria and shouldn't be confused with the infection. The presence of the bacteria doesn't always indicate or result in infection.
Many MRSA infections can most certainly be cured. If the bacteria has colonized, you'll have it for life but it won't harm you. However, you can transmit to others if they make direct contact with the source of the infection or with body fluids that carry the bacteria.
How do you know you have MRSA? You may very well have it on your skin or in your nose right now. You'd never know. You'd have to be cultured to know for sure.
How do you know you have an MRSA infection? That depends on the site of the infection. It can be skin, respiratory tract, nasal, in the urine, in the GI tract, in the blood, the eye or eyes and on and on and the symptoms will vary according to the site.
Answers: It's time to make a distinction between MRSA and MRSA infections. MRSA is the bacteria and shouldn't be confused with the infection. The presence of the bacteria doesn't always indicate or result in infection.
Many MRSA infections can most certainly be cured. If the bacteria has colonized, you'll have it for life but it won't harm you. However, you can transmit to others if they make direct contact with the source of the infection or with body fluids that carry the bacteria.
How do you know you have MRSA? You may very well have it on your skin or in your nose right now. You'd never know. You'd have to be cultured to know for sure.
How do you know you have an MRSA infection? That depends on the site of the infection. It can be skin, respiratory tract, nasal, in the urine, in the GI tract, in the blood, the eye or eyes and on and on and the symptoms will vary according to the site.
MSRA can be cured. MSRA is a antibiotic resistant bacterial infection. It resists many antibiotics, but other, stronger antibiotics may work.
My nephew had one 2 weeks ago. He ended up in the hospital for 5 days. He is totally fine now.
Only a doctor can tell you if you have a MSRA.
MRSA is a staph infection and there is no cure. If you have a wound that will not heal and is infected I would have it checked out it may be nothing but I'd rather be safe than sorry.
I don't think that even the strong newer antibiotic completely eliminate MRSA. They knock it down enough for your own immune system to finish it off. You have to have a lab test to determine if it's MRSA.
Staph infections, including MRSA, generally start as small red bumps that resemble pimples, boils or spider bites. These can quickly turn into deep, painful abscesses that require surgical draining. Sometimes the bacteria remain confined to the skin. But they can also burrow deep into the body, causing potentially life-threatening infections in bones, joints, surgical wounds, the bloodstream, heart valves and lungs.
Both hospital and community associated strains of MRSA still respond to certain medications. In hospitals and care facilities, doctors generally rely on the antibiotic vancomycin to treat resistant germs. CA-MRSA may be treated with vancomycin or other antibiotics that have proved effective against particular strains. Although vancomycin saves lives, it may grow resistant as well; some hospitals are already seeing outbreaks of vancomycin-resistant MRSA. To help reduce that threat, doctors may drain an abscess caused by MRSA rather than treat the infection with drugs.
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lab testing is the only way to know if it's really MRSA vancomycin is the treatment of choice and how it was contracted will affect the treatment and /or cure.
i currently have mrsa and they have to take a culture from the spot which you think is mrsa and they send it in to a lab you will know in about 2 days or so.