Can you die from a disease called MERSA???..it is an infectious?!
Question:
Can you die from a disease called MERSA???..it is an infectious?
disease that is RESISTANT TO normal antibiotics...My friend is getting treated 4 times per day interveinously....in the hospital with Ampicillian????
Answers:
Yes, you can die from MRSA. It is an infection that commonly presents as a skin boil. It has been around in the hospital setting for years, at least since the 1950's. Just recently it has been noticed more frequently in the community, and is called CA-MRSA or community acquired methicillin resistant staph aureus.
This certain bacteria, staph aureus, is common everywhere. It even lives on our skin as part of our "normal flora." The reason MRSA came about is because we as a nation do not finish our antibiotics like the doctor orders. We take antibiotics until we feel better and then stop taking them, thinking that we will save the rest for the next time we are ill. Taking the antibiotics for less than the prescribed amount of time doesn't kill all the bacteria, it makes them feed off whatever antibiotic we were taking. So, the next time we get ill we take the rest of that antibiotic and the bacteria that is in our bodies uses the antibiotic to make itself stronger, more resistant. MRSA is resistant to all antibiotics ending with "cillin."
I saw you said your friend is on ampicillin. I am wondering if he/she really has MRSA, since it should be resistant to that antibiotic.
Yes, MRSA can kill someone. I mentioned above that it usually presents as a skin boil. Fact is, it colonizes in our nasal passages. I am a nurse and have seen patients with MRSA pneumonia and blood infections called sepsis that was caused by MRSA.
Whatever you do, be careful when you are around your friend. I suggest putting neosporin on a cotton swab and putting it in your nose each day to help ward off any infection you might have at this point.
MRSA is spread by touch and by an infected person breathing on an open wound of an uninfected person (such as a tattoo artist breathing on a client while they are getting a tattoo).