MRSA ...what can be done?

[redhen]

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where is located in the store? with the meds? Thanks!

 

[Hoosiermomma]

I usually get mine off ebay or order through a co op. I try to look for the stuff that says manuka oil on it.

 

[CityChicker]

I have never heard that once you have had MRSA it will keep coming back. I hope that is not the case. I, unfortunately, came down with it after a surgery last year. It quickly spread all over my neck and upper chest. There are specific antibiotics that are given for MRSA. My surgeon put me on Clindamycin and it was gone in about 3-4 weeks.

 

[Wifezilla]

One thing that helps your body fight disease is a proper level of vitamin D. Have him get tested. I bet he is deficient.

Tea tree oil is a great topical treatment. Not sure if it will totally do the trick, but it wont hurt and it costs less than $6. Walmart...by the vitamin isle or sometimes by the first aid stuff.

Has he been tested for diabetes? Sometimes healing is impaired by out of control blood sugar levels.

 

[citrusdreams]

I was told by my microbiology instructor that we are exposed to staph and mrsa microbes every day, and are usually able to resist infection. But when we develop and infection from it, especially multiple times, it's usually an immunity issue. A lot of people get infections after surgery or during illness because your immunity is low.

It does go away with proper antibiotics, taken as directed for the full amount of time. But you'll get it again, if you're exposed to it and don't take precautions (like, but not only, very diligent handwashing), if your body can't fight it off.

MRSA is particularly dangerous because it adapts so quickly to antibiotics. Just please finish your course of antibiotics, as directed. The worse thing you can do is stop taking it before it completely goes away, because you enable it to build up resistance that way. And once your bug doesn't respond to the only few antibiotics left to treat it, you're in big trouble

 

[Hoosiermomma]

I really think the microbiologists or whomever need to look into the effectiveness with E.O's, in particular Manuka/Tea tree oil and some of the other known disinfectants....lavender, lemon, eucalyptus, honey, etc. It seems they always want to push antibiotics but if they can start using more natural means then there wouldn't such a resistance. They just need to be more open to other possibilities.

 

[breezy]

There is a hospital using Thieves blend ( essential oil blend from young living) that has been shown to be really effective at reducing the incidence of MRSA. I cant remember which teaching hospital it is...I think it may have been in Kentucky. They found Thieves Blend to be so effective they began using it in the hand sanitzers and soap as well as cleaning products. You can get Thieves from ebay fairly cheaply
Best Wishes and good luck.

 

[Hoosiermomma]

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That's wonderful!!!!! Hopefully more will follow suit. I am planning on buying some for the indoor/cold weather season but it's a bit pricey.

 

[LarryPQ]

After my first child, my DH picked up MRSA from the hospital. He had it about 10 months before I finally picked it up from him. We have the "community-associated" MRSA, so it has (so far thank goodness) only been on the skin.

It was 2 years before a newbie nurse at the doctor's office recognized it as MRSA, and finally perscribed the correct antibiotics. According to the Mayo Clinic, MRSA is resistant to 9 of the 12 antibiotic families, so you have to be taking the correct antibiotic for it to work.

MRSA is also carried by most people in their noses---so keep your fingers outta there! If you have MRSA in your family, get the doc to give you the topical goop (miripricin?). You'll have to swab the nasal cavities of EVERYONE in the house for 30 days.

Soap and Water (not antibiotic soap) all the time.

The swelling can get pretty bad, especially if the infection is on a fatty area. Wait until the purulence feels fluctant before trying to drain. This could be day 4 or 5 of infection. Best to let a doctor do it, but if you are going to give it a go---wear gloves and sanitize everything before and after.

 

[TennesseeTruly]

I've had MRSA for 3 years. It doesn't go away, it goes into remission. It usually comes back after I'm stressed or sick. I got mine after surgery in a hospital to replace my nose after an accident ripped my nose and the right side of my face off my head.

MRSA can and will travel around the body and is highly infectious. Your husband should be washing his hands constantly, and he should preferably carry a small pocket sized bottle of GermX with him.

An emergency room can lance and culture it and they should do that. I've been lanced so often that I no longer go to the doctor to do it, I do it myself or my husband does it. (We both were in the health field prior to retirement)

He needs to be cultured to find out what kind of antibiotics his MRSA is sensitive to. Some doctors get sick of hearing about it but he should get antibiotics EVERY time he has an outbreak.

Good luck hun. I wouldn't wish MRSA on my worse enemy, believe me.

Laurie