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Posted: 2/10/2016 7:03:29 AM EDT
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If you have any kind of sense or decency, you'll politely cancel your visit to avoid exposing them. MRSA is not a fucking joke. this. MRSA causes medical people to go home in cold sweats... wondering. I've been working as an RN around people infested with MRSA for 10 years. I have yet to have one issue and cannot name one person I have worked with that has ended up with MRSA. Honestly the vast majority of people that have MRSA have abscesses.....And the vast majority of them also have horrible hygiene and I'm not sure if they have ever taken a shower. This. If you clean on a regular basis and are not walking around with open wounds you're fine. Have you ever stepped foot inside a hospital and touched anything? Yes? Congratulations! You're positive for MRSA. Unless you have shit for immunity and or are a slob the chances of you contracting it are slim to none. I've spent 7 years in an ER and 11 on an ambulance. I don't fear MRSA. If your buddy was coming over with C. diff on the other hand I'd tell him to FOAD and kill anything he touched with fire. YMMV. c. diff?!? https://45.media.tumblr.com/2f88e2c4d5b5561b5f1c1b918bbf9c93/tumblr_mz5htqWTc21qls1aoo1_250.gif C. Diff is nowhere near as dangerous as MRSA. C. Diff is an opportunist and generally only overruns patients who are have no normal flora in their gut (people who are immunocompromised or on moderate strength antibiotics). Clostridium difficile lives in the soil. It's literally everywhere. |
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Posted: 2/10/2016 7:10:10 AM EDT
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People in the community have MRSA and most don't know about it. It's not the end of the world.
If you're concerned about your guests, shower with some hibiclens a few days before and get some bactroban for your nose. That will cut down the colonization of your skin considerably. |
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Posted: 2/10/2016 7:20:54 AM EDT
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About a third of a nurses that work med/surg have it colonized on them.
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Posted: 2/10/2016 7:52:53 AM EDT
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I wouldn't sweat it. There are tons of people with MRSA you interact with daily and never know it. Where do you think these people with MRSA shop, eat, go to movies? Practice good hand hygeine, make sure your guest has their own towels, and wash the bedding when they leave. Most normal people do this for their guests MRSA or not. Just curiois, where is the MRSA? Exactly. It is on the your skin and you don't know it. It is on the doorknob, the table, etc. You don't get it from simply making contact with it; its got to get into your body through an open wound/sweat gland/etc. and your immune system has to be weakened. |
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Posted: 2/10/2016 8:02:06 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If there are no open weeping wounds or lesions, it's hard to share. MRSA is bad voodoo. As far as I recall, there are MRSA carriers that have things like sinuses colonized... who don't necessarily shed bacteria and don't get infected themselves. Someone with an open wound that's not healing because it's dribbling MRSA pus that's a different story. But, yeah, sharing a bathroom (and not having it sanitized afterwards) was a dick move. |
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Posted: 2/10/2016 8:02:56 AM EDT
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If you have any kind of sense or decency, you'll politely cancel your visit to avoid exposing them. MRSA is not a fucking joke. this MRSA isn't a head cold. |
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Posted: 2/10/2016 8:18:24 AM EDT
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Exactly. It is on the your skin and you don't know it. It is on the doorknob, the table, etc. You don't get it from simply making contact with it; its got to get into your body through an open wound/sweat gland/etc. and your immune system has to be weakened. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I wouldn't sweat it. There are tons of people with MRSA you interact with daily and never know it. Where do you think these people with MRSA shop, eat, go to movies? Practice good hand hygeine, make sure your guest has their own towels, and wash the bedding when they leave. Most normal people do this for their guests MRSA or not. Just curiois, where is the MRSA? Exactly. It is on the your skin and you don't know it. It is on the doorknob, the table, etc. You don't get it from simply making contact with it; its got to get into your body through an open wound/sweat gland/etc. and your immune system has to be weakened. You mean staph or MRSA? Staphylococcus aureus is common. MRSA is not. MRSA is a nasty version of staph that is resistant to antibiotics. I see people get these two confused frequently. |
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Posted: 2/10/2016 8:27:07 AM EDT
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You mean staph or MRSA? Staphylococcus aureus is common. MRSA is not. MRSA is a nasty version of staph that is resistant to antibiotics. I see people get these two confused frequently. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I wouldn't sweat it. There are tons of people with MRSA you interact with daily and never know it. Where do you think these people with MRSA shop, eat, go to movies? Practice good hand hygeine, make sure your guest has their own towels, and wash the bedding when they leave. Most normal people do this for their guests MRSA or not. Just curiois, where is the MRSA? Exactly. It is on the your skin and you don't know it. It is on the doorknob, the table, etc. You don't get it from simply making contact with it; its got to get into your body through an open wound/sweat gland/etc. and your immune system has to be weakened. You mean staph or MRSA? Staphylococcus aureus is common. MRSA is not. MRSA is a nasty version of staph that is resistant to antibiotics. I see people get these two confused frequently. No I mean both and I've had both. ETA: I see what you're saying in that MRSA isn't as commonly lying around and is concentrated in specific areas. My mother is a frequent flyer at one hospital and they know her from her records and get all their gear on to come into the room due to her having had MRSA. Yet, there I sit in the same room with her, visiting her when she's home. She's a known carrier. She goes out everyday and goes shopping, visits people, goes out to eat. I'd say it has gotten places. In my case I was coming off a project and was extremely worn down having worked 7 days a week 12+ hour days for over two months and then jumped right into a project at home while working in the office and running my kids all over the place. I posted a thread about my experience with regular staph here because some ER doctor thought I had a STD and obviously misdiagnosed me (about the third time I've been misdiagnosed). Thankfully the antibiotic in both situations was the same but I still needed and abscess drained. |
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Posted: 2/10/2016 8:40:20 AM EDT
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Clindamycin is the reason I got c diff 3 years ago and still struggle with a fucked up bowel. I'll never take clindamycin again.
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No, went looking for the numbers and 4.6% of patients in U.S. health-care facilities are colonized. I work in healthcare as does my wife so I'm pretty sure we have it and my first son has it from being in a NICU for 3 months. It really is no big deal. clindamycin still works on it. The scary shit is VRE. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Let's say that you have a bit of MRSA and are scheduled to visit and stay with someone for a few days. Would you feel obligated to tell the people that you are visiting that you have MRSA or would you keep it to yourself? No, went looking for the numbers and 4.6% of patients in U.S. health-care facilities are colonized. I work in healthcare as does my wife so I'm pretty sure we have it and my first son has it from being in a NICU for 3 months. It really is no big deal. clindamycin still works on it. The scary shit is VRE. |
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Posted: 2/10/2016 8:50:51 AM EDT
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As a business traveler, I've had it 3 times, all of which that were very odd.
All 3 times involved the infection around cuticles (2 times fingers, 1 time toe) that went 0-60mph in hours. The first time, It started with an agitation and within a few hours I could literally see my heart beating in my finger. I lanced the puss and instantly felt relief from the pressure and pain. I later went to urgent care and they tested it, came back the next day as MRSA. They gave me a prescription and I was good. The other two times were the same, a quick urgent care visit and I was good to go. The issue would heal within a a few days. |
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Posted: 2/10/2016 8:50:55 AM EDT
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Clindamycin is the reason I got c diff 3 years ago and still struggle with a fucked up bowel. I'll never take clindamycin again. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Clindamycin is the reason I got c diff 3 years ago and still struggle with a fucked up bowel. I'll never take clindamycin again. Quoted:
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Let's say that you have a bit of MRSA and are scheduled to visit and stay with someone for a few days. Would you feel obligated to tell the people that you are visiting that you have MRSA or would you keep it to yourself? No, went looking for the numbers and 4.6% of patients in U.S. health-care facilities are colonized. I work in healthcare as does my wife so I'm pretty sure we have it and my first son has it from being in a NICU for 3 months. It really is no big deal. clindamycin still works on it. The scary shit is VRE. Have you looked into fecal replacement? Sounds gross but it seems to work for people in restoring their normal gut flora |
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Posted: 2/10/2016 8:52:30 AM EDT
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You probably have MRSA on your skin as we type... Many of you do.... All of us have some form of Staphylococcus aureus all over us, it's normal Skin flora. Lots of mail order medical degree Dr. Google herp derp in this thread. Gluten will make your dick fly off. That's what some of y'all sound like right now.
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Posted: 2/10/2016 9:50:24 AM EDT
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You mean staph or MRSA? Staphylococcus aureus is common. MRSA is not. MRSA is a nasty version of staph that is resistant to antibiotics. I see people get these two confused frequently. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I wouldn't sweat it. There are tons of people with MRSA you interact with daily and never know it. Where do you think these people with MRSA shop, eat, go to movies? Practice good hand hygeine, make sure your guest has their own towels, and wash the bedding when they leave. Most normal people do this for their guests MRSA or not. Just curiois, where is the MRSA? Exactly. It is on the your skin and you don't know it. It is on the doorknob, the table, etc. You don't get it from simply making contact with it; its got to get into your body through an open wound/sweat gland/etc. and your immune system has to be weakened. You mean staph or MRSA? Staphylococcus aureus is common. MRSA is not. MRSA is a nasty version of staph that is resistant to antibiotics. I see people get these two confused frequently. You sure about that? CA-MRSA is on the rise. It may be because more people are using antibacterial products in the community and it is allowing stronger bacteria to survive and mutate. In 1974 about 2% of all staph infections were MRSA; currently (2011) the estimation is that 70% of all staph infections are MRSA. Since its first appearance in 1960 , methicillin resistance in S. aureus strains has become widespread in hospitals and intensive care units (ICUs) . National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance (NNIS) System data demonstrate a steady increase in the incidence of nosocomial infections caused by methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) among ICU patients over time. MRSA now accounts for >60% of S. aureus isolates in US hospital ICUs |
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Posted: 2/10/2016 10:06:53 AM EDT
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Meh, just think about all the people colonized with MRSA you come in contact with that don't know it and don't have any symptoms. My wife and I both fall under that category. We assume we both carry MRSA, because we took care of her parents, who both had an active case of MRSA at one time or another. Active as i, they spent time in a hospital, isolated, being treated for active MRSA. My FIL almost died. The fact that they recovered does not mean the MRSA was destroyed. It was just beaten down, and still hanging around in their sinuses and possibly other portals. |
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Posted: 2/10/2016 10:16:50 AM EDT
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A lot of hysteria in this thread. MRSA isn't AIDS, and you all probably have it in your skin, in your nose and mouth, and in your house anyway. It's just staphylococcus aureus bacteria that is resistant to methicillin (and some other antibiotics). For most healthy people, I t's only a problem if it decides to colonize enough to cause an acute infection. People with weakened immune systems are more at risk for a severe infection.
We have plenty of ovals that cover it, and having an abscess or something that is mrsa does not mean you should be in the hospital. As long as you keep any open wounds or infection sites covered, and practice good hygiene practices (wash your damn hands), everyone will survive. |
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Posted: 2/10/2016 10:22:09 AM EDT
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Posted: 2/10/2016 10:25:24 AM EDT
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C. Diff is nowhere near as dangerous as MRSA. C. Diff is an opportunist and generally only overruns patients who are have no normal flora in their gut (people who are immunocompromised or on moderate strength antibiotics). Clostridium difficile lives in the soil. It's literally everywhere.
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Posted: 2/10/2016 10:26:27 AM EDT
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I had an in-law that stayed at my house a couple of years ago due to a death in the family and follow-on funeral. He didn't mention that he had MRSA because he didn't want to create any more drama given what was already happening. I just found out recently. There were three other people sharing the guest bathroom with him during this time. This person is very intelligent, but has a Mr Magoo streak at times. Obviously, there weren't any problems, but my nose is a bit out of joint over it now that I know. He's a dick that put you at risk. He could have stayed at a hotel. Every time you see him remember how little he thinks of your safety. Putting strangers at risk is somehow more acceptable? 
Look up the protocols for washing sheets and towels when one has the infection. He should not have left his own abode. PERIOD. He was here for the funeral of his mother. A dilemma even for a genius. |
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Posted: 2/10/2016 11:51:51 AM EDT
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MRSA doesn't even rate for contact precautions any more Yes it does. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Posted: 2/10/2016 11:58:56 AM EDT
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If you have any kind of sense or decency, you'll politely cancel your visit to avoid exposing them. MRSA is not a fucking joke. +1 . That could kill people. MRSA is not a joke It killed my mother-in-law last year. |
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Posted: 2/10/2016 12:21:55 PM EDT
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If you have any kind of sense or decency, you'll politely cancel your visit to avoid exposing them. MRSA is not a fucking joke. Spot on... |
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Posted: 2/10/2016 12:33:50 PM EDT
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Wow. Just read the rest of the replies. You people just repeat bullshit that is wrong. You are ignorant. At least we seem to be making some progress on "it's a spider bite". 
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Posted: 2/10/2016 12:41:52 PM EDT
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I don't see why he could not have still attended, but I know I would have had some precautions in place for while he was there and especially once he left and I did a final cleaning.
As mentioned lots of folks deal with it on a daily basis and if he is in the healing stage that is not that hard to deal with. But probably let him shower last in morning and spray down the shower and clean the bathroom when he is done. Sheets and bedding would be done however it is standard to do it these days, don't know if it is everyday or not. I would be bent out of shape a bit as well. Would not have banned him and could see making him stay in a hotel depending on how many people were going to be in various places. When my family has a gathering it is common to stay in houses with relatives, but when it gets crowded there are a few who are happy to go to a local hotel. |
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Posted: 2/10/2016 12:47:09 PM EDT
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Somebody please explain to me (you're all obviously experts) what this person with MRSA is supposed to do for groceries?
Several of you have pointed out that he is carrying a deadly pathogen and shouldn't be allowed in his friend's house. Clearly he shouldn't go to a movie theater, grocery store, post office, bank, or WalMart. If he did, we would all be afflicted with his plague by now. |
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Posted: 2/10/2016 12:49:35 PM EDT
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I don't see why he could not have still attended, but I know I would have had some precautions in place for while he was there and especially once he left and I did a final cleaning. As mentioned lots of folks deal with it on a daily basis and if he is in the healing stage that is not that hard to deal with. But probably let him shower last in morning and spray down the shower and clean the bathroom when he is done. Sheets and bedding would be done however it is standard to do it these days, don't know if it is everyday or not. I would be bent out of shape a bit as well. Would not have banned him and could see making him stay in a hotel depending on how many people were going to be in various places. When my family has a gathering it is common to stay in houses with relatives, but when it gets crowded there are a few who are happy to go to a local hotel. I think this is where I basically sit. I would still allow him in my house, but I would have taken precautions to try to keep the exposure to a minimum. A couple people could have used a different bathroom and that would allow me to nuke-clean it when he left. But, as it stands, nothing happened...so that's good. |
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Posted: 2/10/2016 1:01:12 PM EDT
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You would be amazed at how many people have MRSA and never know.
You do know that most MRSA's are treatable like any other infection? Just not with Methicillin. Not worth mentioning unless you have a wound infection or maybe some sort od dermatitis. How about hep c? You know more than a few people with that and they don't know it.... The world can be scary. 
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Posted: 2/10/2016 1:04:17 PM EDT
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Somebody please explain to me (you're all obviously experts) what this person with MRSA is supposed to do for groceries? Several of you have pointed out that he is carrying a deadly pathogen and shouldn't be allowed in his friend's house. Clearly he shouldn't go to a movie theater, grocery store, post office, bank, or WalMart. If he did, we would all be afflicted with his plague by now. All wounds should bandaged and covered with fresh bandages before going out in public. Hands should be washed after touching any wound infected with MRSA. Hands should be washed after wiping a runny nose before touching anything or anyone. The problem is most people DO NOT do the above. Many don't even wash their hands after going to the bathroom. In OP's case. The infected person was sharing a bathroom with other people. That means infected hand towels and shower. Hospitals require special contact precautions to be taken with MRSA patients. I'm not referring to a MRSA carrier, someone with an active infection. If you and others are suggesting it's no big deal, are you saying hospitals are just being too paranoid? Are they just wasting extra PPE for no reason then? I am a Medical Laboratory Scientist certified by the ASCP (American Society for Clinical Pathology) with a 4 year bachelors degree. I work a hospital laboratory. You know, the guys that test for this stuff? I don't specialize in microbiology, but I'm no layperson either. |
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Posted: 2/10/2016 1:06:23 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/10/2016 1:20:37 PM EDT
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If you have any kind of sense or decency, you'll politely cancel your visit to avoid exposing them. MRSA is not a fucking joke. this. MRSA causes medical people to go home in cold sweats... wondering. Complete bullshit. |
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Posted: 2/10/2016 1:23:45 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/10/2016 1:32:42 PM EDT
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This thread is funny. Doing BJJ there's always somebody with a staph infection at any given time. It happens all the fucking time between our schools. I've gotten it maybe 5 times. Impetigo twice. Buddy had MRSA twice. It doesn't spread like a cold. It's easy to avoid in most scenarios, too. Hell, kids know guys who've trained with a staph infection. Every time somebody got a MRSA infection they invariably got admitted for observation with an IV. Guess the hospital has just been selling muffler bearings. I'm not sure what your point is. Everyone has it and is always spreading it yet is somehow easy to avoid. You'll always end up in the hospital but they're just pushing BS treatments on you. |
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Posted: 2/11/2016 3:19:04 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/11/2016 3:25:04 PM EDT
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This thread is funny. Doing BJJ there's always somebody with a staph infection at any given time. It happens all the fucking time between our schools. I've gotten it maybe 5 times. Impetigo twice. Buddy had MRSA twice. It doesn't spread like a cold. It's easy to avoid in most scenarios, too. Hell, kids know guys who've trained with a staph infection. Every time somebody got a MRSA infection they invariably got admitted for observation with an IV. Guess the hospital has just been selling muffler bearings. I'm not sure what your point is. Everyone has it and is always spreading it yet is somehow easy to avoid. You'll always end up in the hospital but they're just pushing BS treatments on you. That staph isn't spread like a cold. I see I somehow forgot to leave that in there. ETA- It is in there, you just didn't highlight it.
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Posted: 2/11/2016 3:30:42 PM EDT
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If you have any kind of sense or decency, you'll politely cancel your visit to avoid exposing them. MRSA is not a fucking joke. |
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Posted: 2/11/2016 4:02:00 PM EDT
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You people are pussies, MRSA is a strain of Staph.... How many staph infections have you had in your life? None? Exactly. Its not the bubonic plague. It infects mostly filthy people or an occasional person with badluck. Youre at walmart? there are 25 other people in there finger fucking stuff before you do that have MRSA. Im a RN, deal with it daily, handwashing is plenty to combat it. No need to douse the sink with bleach afterwards.
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Posted: 2/11/2016 4:02:54 PM EDT
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Sure they can visit...Wearing a EVA suit.
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Posted: 2/11/2016 4:04:54 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/11/2016 4:18:39 PM EDT
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Define "a bit of MRSA". Colonization vs. an active infection will have different responses.
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Posted: 2/11/2016 4:38:16 PM EDT
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Let's say that you have a bit of MRSA and are scheduled to visit and stay with someone for a few days. Would you feel obligated to tell the people that you are visiting that you have MRSA or would you keep it to yourself? Whoever has the MRSA needs to stay home till they are cleared. And Dr worth their degree should have explained the precautions to take to keep it from spreading. |
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Posted: 2/11/2016 6:28:13 PM EDT
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No, went looking for the numbers and 4.6% of patients in U.S. health-care facilities are colonized. I work in healthcare as does my wife so I'm pretty sure we have it and my first son has it from being in a NICU for 3 months. It really is no big deal. clindamycin still works on it. The scary shit is VRE. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Let's say that you have a bit of MRSA and are scheduled to visit and stay with someone for a few days. Would you feel obligated to tell the people that you are visiting that you have MRSA or would you keep it to yourself? No, went looking for the numbers and 4.6% of patients in U.S. health-care facilities are colonized. I work in healthcare as does my wife so I'm pretty sure we have it and my first son has it from being in a NICU for 3 months. It really is no big deal. clindamycin still works on it. The scary shit is VRE. If by 'no big deal, you mean spending 8 days in the hospital, 3 in ICU, osteomyelitis, ostectomy of 5th metatarsal, almost losing the remainder of the foot, taking Ertapenem, Vancomycin and other stuff, PICC line, twice daily blood tests. Then after discharge, three months IV treatment on Cubicin at home via PICC line, twice weekly blood tests, 3x week visits to would care center, wound vac, skin grafts, 3 more months of oral antibiotics...then sure...no big deal. |
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Posted: 2/11/2016 6:51:42 PM EDT
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If by 'no big deal, you mean spending 8 days in the hospital, 3 in ICU, osteomyelitis, ostectomy of 5th metatarsal, almost losing the remainder of the foot, taking Ertapenem, Vancomycin and other stuff, PICC line, twice daily blood tests. Then after discharge, three months IV treatment on Cubicin at home via PICC line, twice weekly blood tests, 3x week visits to would care center, wound vac, skin grafts, 3 more months of oral antibiotics...then sure...no big deal. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Let's say that you have a bit of MRSA and are scheduled to visit and stay with someone for a few days. Would you feel obligated to tell the people that you are visiting that you have MRSA or would you keep it to yourself? No, went looking for the numbers and 4.6% of patients in U.S. health-care facilities are colonized. I work in healthcare as does my wife so I'm pretty sure we have it and my first son has it from being in a NICU for 3 months. It really is no big deal. clindamycin still works on it. The scary shit is VRE. If by 'no big deal, you mean spending 8 days in the hospital, 3 in ICU, osteomyelitis, ostectomy of 5th metatarsal, almost losing the remainder of the foot, taking Ertapenem, Vancomycin and other stuff, PICC line, twice daily blood tests. Then after discharge, three months IV treatment on Cubicin at home via PICC line, twice weekly blood tests, 3x week visits to would care center, wound vac, skin grafts, 3 more months of oral antibiotics...then sure...no big deal. Are you diabetic? Vanc + Ertapenam means a poly microbial infection. MRSA is definitely a big deal for people with poor health and immunity, as well as compromised wound healing |
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