You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make them drink. Sometimes your best intentions to help someone with their Staph or MRSA treatment are wasted, or even backfire on you. It’s a lesson many people have to learn when they become a caregiver to someone with a health challenge. It’s actually a lesson I’ve had to learn more than once.
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Tag Archives: MRSA Infection
MRSA Rates Dropping in the UK
Encouraging news this month from the English National Health Service (NHS). MRSA infection rates in England were at a 10 year record low in June. What’s more, 25 NHS trusts (service segments) in England have been MRSA-free for the past 12 months.
What is England doing right?
New success story: 3 years MRSA free!
I regularly get emails from my customers, and I recently got some wonderful feedback about an MRSA success story. This one in particular really stands out. Why is that?
Because Eileen’s been MRSA-free for over 3 years now.
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Going back to work with MRSA
If you’ve lost time from work because of Staph or MRSA, then you know the stress, uncertainty and frustration these infections can inflict. On top of the often high cost of treatments, lost income from missing work can cause a huge financial strain.
You want to go back to work and get your life back on track as soon as possible. But you also want your friends, family and coworkers to be safe from catching your infection. If you’ve lost work due to Staph or MRSA then you’ve probably been wondering the following:
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What exactly is a MRSA infection?
Staph aureus bacteria greatly magnified (Credit: Arduino/CDC)
There’s a fair amount of confusion online about what MRSA really is. Sometimes you’ll see it called MERSA, Staph MRSA, resistant Staph, Staph superbug, or even MRSA Virus.
What is MRSA? Is it a virus? Is it a bacteria? What exactly is it?
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Do antibiotics increase your risk for Staph and MRSA?
MRSA, miracle drugs and mighty mutations
When they were first discovered and used for treating infections in the 1940’s, antibiotic drugs were hailed as “miracle drugs”. And they were! They saved countless lives, and thank goodness we had them. Because antibiotics worked so well, doctors began prescribing them heavily instead of the natural treatment methods that were more common at the time.
Within the first couple years, bacteria mutated and began to learn how to resist these drugs. They started “fighting back” and became immune to the very drugs created to kill them. Thus the problem of antibiotic resistance was borne.
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MRSA infections in kids keeps on rising
MRSA infections rising in children (©iStockPhoto.com/izusek)
If you’ve been following the news lately, you’ve probably noticed more articles about Staph and MRSA infections in children. The number of children diagnosed with MRSA infection has increased substantially over the past few years.
As community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) continues to rise, it has become a major threat to children, mostly elementary school-aged, in crowded community settings. MRSA infections are commonly found on the neck and head of children and can spread to other parts of the body as well.
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