Could my toddler catch MRSA?!
Question: My friend's 3 year old tested positive for MRSA today and she just called to tell me. he has had a sore on his finger that just won't heal. MY 3 year old son started running a fever yesterday early afternoon and is still running a fever. he vomited once yesterday. could this be signs of MRSA? i have been trying to research it, but is only says that it starts at a sore. he does not have any open wounds. he has a few pimples on his bottom, but he still wears a pullup at night and always has accidents, so i assume it is from that.
Answers: My friend's 3 year old tested positive for MRSA today and she just called to tell me. he has had a sore on his finger that just won't heal. MY 3 year old son started running a fever yesterday early afternoon and is still running a fever. he vomited once yesterday. could this be signs of MRSA? i have been trying to research it, but is only says that it starts at a sore. he does not have any open wounds. he has a few pimples on his bottom, but he still wears a pullup at night and always has accidents, so i assume it is from that.
The fever and vomiting are probably just the flu.
If your son gets MRSA, it will start as a pimple or boil on his skin if he has no other open sores. The pimples on his butt may be due to MRSA, but unlikely, since they are covered from contact with others by his pull up.
Yes, MRSA is contagious, but through direct contact with the organisms in the drainage. Your son would more likely breakout in a spot where the other boy directly touched him, or in a spot where the other boy touched something with his finger and your son sat or rubbed on that object.
Don't panic and take your son to the doctor. There is no test that can show if your son has an active MRSA infection, unless there is a draining wound. If your son does show up with a pimple or boil somewhere, that is the point to take him in. MRSA infections can be serious if LEFT UNTREATED for a while, but DO respond to antibiotics. MRSA just needs to be treated with a different combenation of antibiotics than usual, and sometimes for a bit longer than normal because the MRSA bacteria has become resistant to the normal choices of antibiotics. The people who are most greatly affected by MRSA are the ones with weakened immune systems (like those with cancer, AIDS, etc), the very old and premature babies.
MRSA can live for a while on household surfaces and toys. If this other child has been over to your house since he has had this sore on his finger, I would wipe off all of your chairs, your sons plastic toys, and any other surface the boy may have touched with a mild bleach solution. Any cloth items should also be washed somehow as best as possible. I would stay out of the other child's house for a while, until the other mom has a chance to get things cleaned up. Don't feel like you need to avoid the other boy though. As long as he has been on antibiotics for 48 hours and his finger is kept covered, a play date at a park or somewhere else is perfectly fine for your child.
Over 60% of the population have MRSA colonized on their bodies somewhere ... the hands/fingernails, the nasal and oral cavities, the groin area. When it becomes colonized on our bodies, it lives there but doesn't make us sick. Your son may actually already have it colonized on his own body. It is becoming increasily common for schoolaged children to get MRSA boils due to how widespread it has become.
Also, MRSA can show up as a cold in people, but your son would have had to been exposed to someone else with a MRSA infection in their respiratory tract. As this other boy had MRSA in his finger, that is the question I delt with. If this other boy gives your son MRSA, it would be from his finger, not his lungs, so you are looking for a transfer site from a finger.
Better to be safe than sorry in the case of MRSA, especially if your toddler has been exposed to it. You should take your son in to be tested.
i googled mrsa bc i had no idea what it was and fever is not a sign and/or symptom. read this: http://www.medicinenet.com/mrsa_infectio...
i think maybe your son just has a cold, i would take him to his doctor tomorrow. if he had contact w/the other little boy i would def take him 2mrw MORNING.......a good mother always worries, hope everything goes ok.
Yes.
I would take him to the doctor right away if he has been around the boy that has MRSA, my friends Children have it and her husband got it outside from a brick that the children had touched, so I would get that child to the doctor ASAP, It is very contagious. Good Luck and Hope he does not have it for his sake. Better to be safe than sorry!!
MRSA does not have to show symptoms via an infection site, like a sore, wound or boil. Community Acquired infections can be spread orally, by touching an active bacterial site, then being transmitted through the mouth or nose.
MRSA are drug resistant bacterium. If you want sound and up-to-date information, please consult: http://www.mrsamedical.com
Vomiting and fever are not symptoms of MRSA infection. There is a preventative measure that can be taken against MRSA and many other pathogenic bacterium. This information might be very useful in treating your friends son.
Please advise your friend not to climb the antibiotic ladder. Antibiotics should not be used as a first line of defence against MRSA bacterium. They cause resistance and can compromise the immune system and have long-lasting side-effects.
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Hope that helps you both...