MRSA?

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My mum had an operation in november to remove a polyps (SP?) from up her nose. She has had a continuous infection since which has not responded to any antibiotics that she has been prescribed. anyway she had some cultures taken and has now been prescribed azithromycin which is the antiobiotics used to treat MRSA, she has been given the strongest dose possible and a four week course which the receptionsist at the dr's said was very unusual. She has phoned her consultant but he hasn't replied as she wants to know if she has MRSA, she proof reads medical journals for a living and has found that 33% of people who have the operation she has had contract MRSA. Now all the indicators suggest she has it but noone has actually told her, do they have an obligation to do so, i would think so? I keep trying to reassure her but she is going out of her mind with worry. Does anyone on here know anything about MRSA, can you help at all? TIA

I am pretty damn sure they have an obligation to tell her if there is a possibility she is carrying an infectious disease!

MRSA is often an infection that won't respond to treatment. She may have been prescribed these particular anti - bs because her infection isn't shiften, however, I would be temped to tell her gp she wan't a blood test and she wants to be informed directly of the results.

see thats what i keep telling her Colditz, she's a bit of a conspiracy theorist so she doesn't trust easily
I think she is very angry that she wasn't told of the possible side effects of this op, most end with infections and apparently like I said 33% MRSA due to it being in the nose?

Yes, that's where staph bacteria are carried, and MRSA is a mega Staph bug.