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Started by Nick |
Posted: December 7, 2005 at 20:26 | |
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One year ago I went to sleep with a pimple on my leg and when i woke up my calf was filled with puss. when i went to my doctors he told me it was a spider bite. I was hooked up to a IV and stayed in the hospital for a week having my leg drained.Now I get these all the time. I have black scars all over my body. Right now I have about eight on my inner thighs. I feel like crap all the time. My wife is five months pregnant and she dosent even want to come near me.no doctors have any answers.If anyone has any advice on how to live with MRSA I would love to hear it. 8917
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Reply #1 by Roshanna |
Posted: December 7, 2005 at 22:10 | |
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Same thing happened with my 2 year old. Had a pimple, turned into a puss-filled boil the size of a golf ball. We were told it was a spideerbite. She broke out with these "spider bites" every week for a couple months when we brough her back. She tested positive for MRSA. A year later, she stil;l gets them. 8920
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Reply #2 by Christi |
Posted: December 8, 2005 at 04:44 | |
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We healed our 3 yr. old son of recurring MRSA (after a yr.) Our story and what we did (used) it at mrsaresources.com in the Forum. It's under "Your MRSA/Superbug Experience" titled, "We healed recurring MRSA in our Son"- Nov.19th? I hope this helps! 8924
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Reply #3 by Doug |
Posted: December 9, 2005 at 13:19 | |
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Nick I am new to this forum. Go to the products forum and see MRSA Treatment or search MRSA AQ+. It's a new product that has just had a paper published. There is also a press release that as far as I know hasn't appeared yet. There is no information from the manufacturer, so we don't know if or when products will be available to the public. Doug 8959
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Reply #4 by vivian |
Posted: December 13, 2005 at 20:27 | |
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Hi. I am also fighting mrsa in my household. My husband, three kids and myself all have it. We are finally seeing results and I think we have stopped the bug. We all got on bactrim ds at the same time even if we did not have a sore. I gave each one of my children and me and my husband a clorox bath.(only about a cup of clorox to a full bath, do not wash your hair in this) We cut our finger nails off to nothing and and put bactroban cream on the underside of them every night we also put the bactroban in our nose every night. You also need to get a really good antibacterial soap for your body and hands and wash all the time. We have not had a break out since we did all this. We forever were fighting this and I just got feed up and did everything I could think of. My doctor said it lives on the skin, under the finger nails and in the nose. So with what we were doing we covered every area plus some to kill it. I hope this helps. And it is safe to do the clorox bath my doctor said just to rinse well after you drain the bath water. Thanks,Vivian 9019
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Reply #5 by Christi |
Posted: December 13, 2005 at 23:58 | |
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It alarms me that a doctor would tell you it's OK to take a Clorox bath-and then pass that along to others! It may kill MRSA but what else is it killing? Clorine is a poison is it not? We put in shower filters at our house just to make sure our family wasn't getting any clorine absorbed through our skin and we also filter our drinking water. I would encourage you to check on the safety of doing a Clorax bath so as not to do more harm than good. A lot of us grew up believing that everything a doctor said was true. My own father was a doctor and it's unfortunate but these days we all have to take responsibility for our own health care instead of relying entirely on our doctors. You can find info on how bad (toxic) clorine is to the human body all over the internet and elsewhere. And not just by companies trying to sell a filter. 9021
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Reply #6 by Vivian |
Posted: December 15, 2005 at 15:54 | |
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I hope I havent made you mad. I am sorry. With it in a whole tub of water it is very diluted. When the big hurricane hit here in the US, Many people had to add clorox to their bath water to make sure it was safe to bath in. I am not saying to bath in straight clorox by no means. It would be very diluted, But I am just telling you what has worked for me and I incourage anyone to research it before they do it. I did not mean to upset anyone. but you should atleast try the bactroban under tha nails and in the nose also washing with a really good antibacterial soap. Sorry again,Viv 9062
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Reply #7 by Christi |
Posted: December 16, 2005 at 03:57 | |
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Vivian, Please, you didn't make me mad. I'm sorry for the way my reply sounded. It's just that my husband had thyriod cancer this past Feb and everything we've been reading is trying to educate people about toxins and how to avoid them. I know you would obviously dilute the Clorox but still, it is a toxin to our bodies and it's alarming to me a doctor would endorse doing this. I'm glad it worked for you, and I want to see people get well. I was just concerned with the safety of the method that's all. 9069
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Reply #8 by L.A. |
Posted: December 19, 2005 at 14:50 | |
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HELLO, My remedy for fighting mrsa is to coat and cover blisters with castor oil. However,I do feel it to be safe to cleanse the area with diluted clorox wash,followed by a thorough rinse with plain water. I have used clorox in three parts water to clear up a bad case of foot fungus as a teenager and I am now 60 and never had any problems. The castor oil will releive pain and swelling at the site .I also sterilized a needle and lightly pricked the pus pocket to release the pus, and used antibiotic ointment on bandaid to cover and protect other areas from infection.I truly hope this helps someone. 9092
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Reply #9 by EDWARD FEEHAN MD |
Posted: December 31, 2005 at 14:12 | |
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FOR THE LADY WHOSE DAUGHER WOULD GET PUSTULES. ASK YOUR DOCTOR TO TEST THE CHILD FOR AN ELEVATED IGE. SHE MIGHT HAVE A GRANULOCYTE DISORDER. IN THE ICD9 CODING THIS DISORDER GOES BY THE NUMBER 288.1 A LITTLE ANTIBIOTIC OINTMENT ON THE RED SPOT MIGHT MAKE IT GO AWAY. THESE THINGS WILL OFTEN GO AWAY ON THEIR OWN GIVEN ENOUGH TIME BUT IF LEFT UNTRATED THEY CAN ALSO SCAR OR GET QUITE NASTY. I HAVE NO IDEA WHETHER MRSA IS INVOLVED. IN MOST CASES PROBABLY NOT BECAUSE THE 288.1 DISORDER IS SO COMMON. BUT ANY SKIN INFECTION COULD INVOLVE STAPH. JUST NOT ALWAYS SO HARD TO TREAT. OF COURSE THERE ARE RED SPOTS THAT DO NOT INVOLVE BACTERIAL SKIN INFECTIONS TOO. BY THE WAY METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPH IS IN A VERY MILD WAY A MISNOMER. OXYCILLIN (SP?) MIGHT HAVE LARGELY REPLACED METHICILLIN AND SO CALLING THE PROBLEM OF THE RESISTANT STAPH MRSA IS LABELING IT USING A REFERENCE TO A DRUG THAT IS NOT USED MUCH ANY MORE. 9249
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Reply #10 by CC |
Posted: May 14, 2008 at 14:54 | |
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To Christi reply #5 and #7... Swimming pools contain chlorine... this is not so different from clorox baths. Are you also suggesting that the millions of infants, children, and adults who go swimming everyday are all wrong? 21027
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Re: MRSA
Reply #11 by linda44 |
Posted: July 1, 2008 at 22:42 | |
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Some of the respondants here are potentially as dangerous as MRSA itself. MRSA is a potentially life threatening bacterial illness. It is completely unreasonable that someone should just learn how to live with it. If you have a "spider bite" pus filled abscess it is very likely MRSA you need to see a medical professional. The most effective treatment is double antibiotics Septra or Bactrim and Rifampin or Doxycycline or Clindamycin. I agree with the Clorox bath, 1/4 cup Clorox in a full tub of bath water, approximately the same dilution as pool. Every one in the household should do the antibiotic ointment to the nostrils. Wash hands often, also use Lysol or Clorox cleaning products on every hard surface in the household. If one does not eradicate the bacterial infection it could turn into a blood infection or pneumonia or worse. Furthermore, what about the responsibility of contagion and infecting others, such as small babies or elderly or people who are immunocompromised? 21475
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Reply #12 by Callie |
Posted: July 2, 2008 at 18:33 | |
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Linda44 - I just wanted to point out that although what you say may be true for readers in the USA about spider bite/abcesses being MRSA this is not the case in the UK, our MRSA here rarely appears as a spider bite type lesion or abcess. Although of course anyone with either of those things should probably consult a medical professional for advice anyway! 21478
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Reply #13 by Kami |
Posted: July 30, 2008 at 19:08 | |
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is there a possible that mrsa runs in the family? because my aunt which lives in a different house got it her two kids, my uncle and his daughter in another house got it.. then me in a different house have had it 10 times in 4 months!!!! 21610
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Reply #14 by jc |
Posted: August 22, 2008 at 13:46 | |
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At 55 I developed a large carbuncle on my buttocks. I had not had a boil since i was 6. My wife then developed one also. The staph bacteria(not neccessarily MRSA) lives among us on our skin and trives in our noses. I ended up going to the hosp to get IV antibiotics and to get it drained. Afterwards i talked to my sister (a nurse practitioner) and she said that she has had families that keep passing the bacteria with resulting boils throughout the household. Anyway, the bottom line is she recommends to these families to do exactly what Vivian did with the mrsa bath but with mupirocin cream for the nose and don't use the bath towels more than once. Wash linen and clothing in hot water. She didnt mention anything about the fingernails but thats a good idea. she did say "don't be picking your nose and your butt at the same time. least not till you get rid of the bug." Good work Vivian. 21744
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Re: MRSA
Reply #15 by Libby |
Posted: September 8, 2008 at 17:31 | |
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Oh, this is all news to me. I thought this was a one time thing! Our 12 year old boy, wiped out on his bike about 6 weeks ago now, it was healing fine, the scab was gone, just the red spot remained where he had skinned his knee. 2 weeks ago, he got what appeared to be an ingrown hair, I told him to leave it alone, you know boys, he picked it. From Monday morning, before school, to Monday night, the difference was shocking. Tuesday morning I brought him to the Dr. we felt it was a little much, honestly, bringing him to the Dr. over what appeared to be an ingrown hair...come on! But I didn't like the way it looked. The Dr. took one look at it and said take him to the Children's Hospital....? WHAT!?! I called my husband, he came home from work early, we brought him to the city and took him to the Children's Hospital as instructed. We sat in the ER with him for 6 hours, with at least a dozen Dr's coming in to look at his knee. In this time, the redness and swelling went from just around his knee, all the way down to the tips of his toes and up to his groin, where it had already started to cause swelling in his lymph nodes. Still, they told us nothing, and we were still thinking it was an infected hair, or possibly even something that had been left in his leg when he scrapped his knee. He remained in the hospital for 2 days, he came home Thursday, and Friday they called me to tell me that he had tested positive for MRSA...but at no point in time, even now, after 2 weeks and several Dr appointments later, have I been told that this is an ongoing thing! I thought once his knee was healed up, it was done and over with....? Yeah, no? What I'm getting from the comments on this page, is that this is a life long thing? Did I read that right? This is not "OVER WITH" after his knee has cleared up? I think I'm dreading the answer to that question. 21846
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Reply #16 by elaine |
Posted: September 19, 2008 at 02:33 | |
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I have had a few break outs usually on my FACE. The Dr. treated me with bactrim to treat them all. the last break out I had was approx 1 year ago. immediatly after the round of bactrim the Dr. put me on rifampim for 7 days. i havent had a break out since! 21925
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Reply #17 by sheryl |
Posted: September 23, 2008 at 16:56 | |
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I am a mother of 4 and i just cam home for the hopital with our 11 year old who has mrsa and we all have to take a bath with clorox 2 times a week for 15 min and again next week so on and so on for a month we will fight this and try to not have the other kids get this but you also have to clean you home with clorox and make sure it is clean this is a BAD thing to happen to people so do not do any thing at home like i read they go to you r DR and get thing done the right way this could kill you !! 21946
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Re: MRSA
Reply #18 by jim |
Posted: September 23, 2008 at 21:42 | |
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Sounds similiar to something I have, whoever it is not related to MRSA. I have pyoderma gangrenosum, it starts out as a small pimple and gradually gets worse. It is very painful and appears to be MRSA from the start. That is whay they were testing me for during the first three days in the hospital, however, a wound care doctor was able to identify and treat rather quickly. If you have been tested for MRSA and it is negative, have them check pyoderma gangrenosum. It is treated with steriods, if it is bad enough then IV steriods is the only way to get rid of it. From my research it is an auto-immune disease with no know culprit. 21949
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Re: MRSA
Reply #19 by JAN VALENTINE |
Posted: May 29, 2010 at 04:14 | |
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I almost died from a MRSA infection, obtained in the hospital when I had back surgery. The MRSA infection required a return back to surgery to remove infected tissue. I was on full life support. I was in and out of the hospital for months. This was my second bout with MRSA; the first followed foot surgery. the first time, after antibiotics failed, I was introduced to the hyperberic chamber, an hour a day for a week. It worked. I was living in FL at the time so doctors were more accustomed to using this therapy. The second time (in VA), I was subjected to multiple toxic IV medications. Yuk. I developed acute pancreastitis (sp?) Now,I'm scheduled for knee replacement surgery and you better believe I will do everything, including Clorox baths, abtibiotics for my nose and whatever my doctors suggest. My primary care doctor specializes in infectious disease and my surgeon is on the infection control committee at the hospital where I will have surgery. MRSA IS NOT FOR SISSIES. 24048
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