Watch Out for MRSA, its sweeping the country!!!
@pimpsterque999 (227)
United States
December 23, 2007 12:16am CST
Well if you look at earlier blogs you will see where i had MRSA, still do, still fighting it however now days its coming up in small increments here and there but I use Hibiclenze to clean with to help cure it and kill it the dr wont give me antibiotics anymore so i have to deal with it on my own. I have been very protective of it making sure my son, boyfriend, family, friends didnt come in contact with it when it was seeping or infected. However just last thursday my boyfriend got MRSA he got an eye infection which i thought was just a sty but then i applied heat and drew it to the eye lid. I don't know how many of you know but if you have MRSA apply moist heat it will draw it to the surface and help you get it out of your system faster!!! Anyways the boyfriend went out of state and the eye got worse, he went to ER and they gave him antibiotics (bad idea) and eye drops (don't work) so when he came home and this stuff was seeping out of his eye i knew just by the look of it what it was. MRSA isnt like a normal pimple or infection its a thick yellowish snotty looking substance that clumps out of its lesion it doesn't ooze or run out. Its a very painfull and itchy infection but when it hits its maturity will actually feel like its burning under the skin. The boyfriend returned and his eye was hurting worse i call and get him to the dr i make her swab for MRSA and of course she gave him a bactrim eye ointment which when i called two days later and confirmed it was MRSA, we were on the right track and his eye was getting better and it was healing up. MRSA goes undetected alot, alot of people have it and don't know it. The sore that takes forever to heal, the sore that keeps seeping and getting worse, the sore that makes the skin break out when it seeps its all MRSA there are many different forms but there all the same.
3 responses
@Angela717 (74)
• United States
7 Feb 08
My oldest daughter and I battled MRSA for over a year. She had it far worse than I did and was passing it back and forth with her best friend. The thing that scared me the most about it was just how quickly it advanced and damaged the tissue. Over time, it became common place for the whole household to be decontaminated on a bi-weekly basis. An infectious disease specialist from the CDC gave us a list of things to do to help rid our living space of the bacteria. We took bleach water baths, disinfected the toilet seat before and after each use, laundered clothing after each wear (including PJs), laundered bed linens every 3 days, used bactrim ointment in our noses and under our nails...putting a family of 5 through that for a year was taxing, but we finally beat it. (I hope.)
One thing that we found really helps and it is a natural disinfectant is Tea Tree Oil. You can buy it at your local Wal-Mart or other store that carries herbal medicines. At the first sign of a sore, coat it with the oil and let air dry. Coat it 2-3 times a day and you will be amazed at how quickly it heals.
Best wishes and blessings, keep fighting it! You CAN win.
@mrsjbelle (1640)
• United States
23 Dec 07
I just read an article about MRSA. They say it's better to not use antibacterial soaps. Just regular soap is fine as antibacterial soap may be contributing to the problem of antibiotic resistant strains of meds.
@Vucjak (242)
• Macedonia
23 Dec 07
Unfortunately, we will see MRSA cases more often, cause, let's face it, we created it. It's just result of the exceeding and improper use of antibiotics. The bacterias, have that ability to adapt, and by the time, they are becoming resistent to the known antibiotics. MRSA, comes from metycilin resistent staphylococcus aureus, and I don't know why your doctor wont threat you, there are still some new strong antibiotics on the market, but the doctors don't want to use them often, cause they are kind of saving them for the future, cause if we create bacterias resistent to those antibiotics, the humanity could be in danger overall.
