MRSA

[joechuch]

My 1 year old son has caught a strain of the MRSA virus Staphylococcus Aureus from a swimming pool. At first 2 doctors miss diagnosed it as inpertigo, but luckily a herbalist friend of mine new exactly what it was and had a cream to help treat it.

It got in through his eczema. It starts as a spot, which then blisters and the skin peels back, the area around goes red, bubbles and then also peels, it spreads so fast it really is worrying.

It has come back and this time a swob was taken, it took three conversations with my doctor for her to admit what it was.

Has anyone else come across anything like this?

Thanks
Joe

Well its good to know ds2 got over it eventually. Was the treatment for his eczema or the staph aureus? If you can remember anything about what it might have been it would be really useful to know either way.
Thanks You.

Most Staphylococcus aureus infections can be treated with antibiotics like Methicillin - it is still (thankfully) rare to find the MRSA (Methicillin Resistant) variety, so your doctor should be able to give him a course of antibiotics to sort it out.

Unfortunately, skin conditions like eczema give the bacteria a route into the body, where they can cause infections like impetigo, so it does put him at more risk of this kind of thing. About 1 in 3 of us carries SA bacteria on our skin, so it's not something you can avoid contact with.

staph aureus IS NOT MRSA and MRSA cannot be diagnosed by looking at it i'm afraid else the NHS would have saved millions in swabs!

staph aureus is a very common bacteria responsible for loads of sore throats and skin infections. simple antibiotics eg methicillin will sort it out.

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Have just searched MRSA and found this thread. My 3 year old daughter was diagnosed with impetigo two weeks ago and was treated with a weeks worth of flucloxacillin. Seemed to be working but within 2 or 3 days of finishing the ABs, it came back with a vengeance. GP prescribed further 10 day course of fluclox but seems to be getting worse with more raw patches developing. Am worried that it is MRSA and wondering if anyone has has a similar experience and what worked.

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