What about MRSA??!
Question:
What about MRSA??
My boyfriend was recently diagnosed with a weak immune system, and acquired MRSA due to a minor Staph infection he got during a motorcycle addicent out at the desert. The doctors have given him 5 years max to live. I am some what scared, and pretty much clueless on the whole infection that he has. I really need someone to clarify what MRSA is going to do to him, and how, if there is any way, that he can be helped or possibly cured?
Anyone who has dealt with the problem before please give me your input, any little bit helps.
Answers:
Somebody's pulling somebody's leg. Community-acquired MRSA only requires a slight change in antibiotic therapy. It's routine in my community, and our local strains have been sensitive to inexpensive and commonly available antibiotics. Other communities have to dig deeper into their antibiotic armamentarium, but skin infections from CA-MRSA are not a big problem. If he got a heart valve infected, that would be a different matter, but from what little you've posted in your question, that seems most unlikely.