How to Reduce the Risk of MRSA Infections in Kids

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Don't worry - if the MRSA doesn't get us, the Muslim's and Illegal's will.

Mike Hunt of NE 5:03PM May 17, 2010

Pls check out this website, filled with helpful information, on how to survive and prevent MRSA:
http://survivemrsa.multiply.com/
Thanks!

Becky S of OR 11:18AM October 03, 2009

Nicholas Kristof had an interesting article on MRSA in a rural area in the March 11 New York Times. (see link below)
Sadly Lristof reports that Dr.Tom Anderson, the family doctor who was finding high rates of MRSA in the rural community where he lived in Camden Indiana died suddenly at 54 last fall, possibly of an MRSA related heart condition.He had treated 50 out of the 500 locals for ±MRSA and he and his 12 year old daughter had themselves had multiple infections.There are a number of large pig farms in teh Camden area
Deborah of Fl who reports her toddler was playing with the family's pet pig and now has MRSA should read this article.
The vector of pigs connected with illnesses in human's when they are in close proximity is well known in Asia. We have all grown up thinking that antibiotics will save us from serious illness but as I just found out going through a nasty bout of pneumonia there are nasty bugs out there that are hard to control or leave you really badly depleted.
My kids LOVE animals too but they wont be cuddling any pigs! Also my wife is a physician and works in a hospital with an ongoing MRSA problem, she washes her hands till they bleed every day to avoid infection.
www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/opinion/12kristof.html?scp=1&sq=pig%20kristof&st=cse

Robert of MI 2:08AM March 13, 2009

My 14 month child has a boil on her butt that is mrsa. She had surgery to drain it and IV therapy. I don't understand how this would happen in her diaper area. We have 5 pug dogs, 4 turtles, and a potbellied pig. Could she get this from our animals? She likes to lay in their dog beds with them. She also attends a gym class with other children. Should I stop taking her there?

Deborah of FL 6:28AM February 20, 2009

this is a good article with useful basic tips. I hope new technology will help combat the spread of MRSA. I battled MRSA for over a year and it was almost impossible to get rid of but finally it went away after receiving the right treatment. MRSA Infections and Staph Infections are very hard to cure. I actually posted a lot of free MRSA resources and mrsa pictures which includes my own personal MRSA story and how I got rid of it at www.infectioncures.com

infectioncures.com of CA 11:28PM February 15, 2009

There are a number of drugs for MRSA, but they are expensive, and their use is trying to be minimized to avoid future resistance. In addition, many community acquired MRSA infections are susceptible to trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, a very cheap antibiotic. While the argument against for profit drug development might hold true for certain things (e.g., malaria), it certainly does not hold water here. Antibiotics are HUGE money makers.

of NY 2:16PM January 22, 2009

This is a great example of why our current for-profit drug development system is broken. We have multiple drugs for impotence but none for a killer bacteria. My mother-in-law died of MRSA last year.

Paul Simmons of OH 1:58PM January 22, 2009

What's really frightening is that doctors aren't washing their hands -- only sometimes. The chances are only 50-50 that the doctor treating you in hospital, even when performing your surgery, has washed his hands. The odds are the same as flipping a coin.
According to the National Quality Forum, hand-washing compliance rates at hospitlas are generaly less than 50 percent. And while MRSA is invulnerable to first-line antibiotics,it kills more people every year in the U.S. than the AIDS virus and is usually contracted in hospitals.
Hospitals are so desperate to get doctors to wash their hands they are threateing loss of priviledges, measuring soap supplies, using staff "spies" and covert camera surveillance of doctors..
A really good article on the subject is on the Ethic Soup blog at:
http://www.ethicsoup.com/2009/01/dont-kill-me-doctor-wash-your-hands.html

Sharon McEachern of CO 4:40PM January 21, 2009