Staph Infection! Help!!?!
Question: Okay, so my mom wanted me to ask a question on here.
Where do staph infections come from?
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How do they happen, like what are things that cause them? Thanks!!
Answers: Okay, so my mom wanted me to ask a question on here.
Where do staph infections come from?
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How do they happen, like what are things that cause them? Thanks!!
A Staph infeciton is ther term used when someone has an infection due to a bacteria called stapholoccus aureus (I'll refer to it as staph from now on) Normally people have Staph that lives on thier skin and up their nose. It's normal bacteria, and it doesnt cause any harm until it gets places it shouldn't be.
As far as where you get it from and what causes them, an elderly person could get a bed sore, staph finds a break in the skin and gets in, you get a bad cut on your leg and your leg is sweating really badly all day long. There are many many ways to get it. Staph can also cause pneumonia, urinary tract infections.. etc.
I work in a microbiology department at a 700+ bed hospital Staph is one of the most commong bacteria that infect people.
Anyways, hope that helped.
staph come from dirty things. it is common in football locker rooms and gyms. make shure you stay clean and always get a bath immedatley after sweating. and do not were the same sweaty outfit over and over.
More often than not, staph infections are gotten in the hospital. The bacteria, staphylococcus, gets into the system from an opening in the skin or the eyes or nose or some other opening. Staph lives on hospital floors, which is why a hospital room floor should never be carpeted and a person should never let his/her bare feet touch the floor. A staph infection should be brought to the attention to the hospital supervisors.
staph infections can be contracted in many different ways, the most common kind occurs in hospitals. most people have staph bacteria on their skin all the time and they just don't react to it. others are susceptible to staph infections and develop a strong reaction and infection.
i had a MRSA staph infection a couple of years ago that i got from scratching a bug bite....i had some of the bacteria under my fingernails and it got into my skin and caused an infection.
really though, most people will never develop a staph infection and many of those who do will not have a severe reaction...only a select few will have the kind of reaction that you see on the news.
First of all there are many different species of staphylococci including Staphylococcus epidermidis, Staph. saprophyticus, and the most well known staph in terms of causing infections, Staphylococcus aureus. Many of the Staphylococcal species can be present on the skin of the same healthy individual because they constitute that individuals "normal flora". Different people may be colonized by different species of staph, and different strains of the same species are responsible for different symptoms of infection. Some strains of S. aureus are resistant to antibiotics such as penicillin (almost all of the S. aureus possess resistance to penicillin.) In general, organisms that are part of the normal flora of a particular region of your body do not cause infection unless there is a breakdown of the physical barrier between your inside and the environment. It doesn't take a very large hole though for the staphylococcal bacterium to get in, but once they do get in they can cause problems provided that the strain that got in possesses certain virulence factors. Antibacterial resistance is a "virulence factor" as is any other trait that the species has that contributes to it ability to cause disease.
Staph infections come from the organism gaining entrance into the body of an otherwise healthy individual through breaks in the skin or mucous membranes. Staphylococci are present on the skin of healthy individuals regardless of whether they are welcome or not! By washing your hands frequently and thoroughly, the number of bacteria present on your skin is reduced to a reasonable level. If you don't wash your hands, then the bacteria present on your skin become so numerous that whenever you have even the smallest cut or nick in your skin, you will be at risk for infection. You never know what strain it will be either and some are able to cause serious disease, even death.