Guest guest Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Hi Rebeca, are talking about Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus? [ ] MRSAs Dear gang, Apropos of nothing, I have just developed a MRSA. Surgery Thursday. Are we more susceptible to these than " normal " people? Sheesh! I'm feeling less normal all the time! Thanks and all my good will, ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _ Shed those extra pounds with MSN and The Biggest Loser! http://biggestloser .msn.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Yes. It supposedly gets folks with a compromised immune system -- that's us, right? From: edultrasound@... Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:29:00 -0800 Subject: Re: [ ] MRSAs Hi Rebeca, are talking about Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus? [ ] MRSAs Dear gang, Apropos of nothing, I have just developed a MRSA. Surgery Thursday. Are we more susceptible to these than " normal " people? Sheesh! I'm feeling less normal all the time! Thanks and all my good will, ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _ Shed those extra pounds with MSN and The Biggest Loser! http://biggestloser .msn.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Cna anyone define " Normal " for me? Life is what you (we) make it. Normal doesn't exist. We live for the moments, in the moments and moments are not normal... Keep your head up, the things you are feeling are not normal, it doesn't exist...Have a Happy Day... Rosen Lum <rrosenlum@...> wrote: Yes. It supposedly gets folks with a compromised immune system -- that's us, right? From: edultrasound@... Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:29:00 -0800 Subject: Re: [ ] MRSAs Hi Rebeca, are talking about Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus? [ ] MRSAs Dear gang, Apropos of nothing, I have just developed a MRSA. Surgery Thursday. Are we more susceptible to these than " normal " people? Sheesh! I'm feeling less normal all the time! Thanks and all my good will, ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _ Shed those extra pounds with MSN and The Biggest Loser! http://biggestloser .msn.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 > > > Yes. It supposedly gets folks with a compromised immune system -- that's us, right? > > > From: edultrasound@... > Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:29:00 -0800 > Subject: Re: [ ] MRSAs Since you mentioned a surgery, was the MRSA detected as part of a screening done before the procedure? Actually, it is somewhat common for healthy people to have some MRSA contamination of their body. All people have normal Staph Aureus living on their skin and inside their nasal passages. The MRSA variant has developed anbd become a problem with the overuse of antibiotics in our society. It has nothing to do with your history of CML. I would not characterize people with CML as having a compromised immune system. There might be some slight deficiencies due to age and perhaps lower blood cell counts but on the whole the immune system is quite functional. If it were not, there are a whole host of organisms that exist in in our bodies that would be attacking every day. Sort of a Catch-22 involved. Many times the surgery is performed without any chance for the bacteria to get in. Even if some do, then many times it is the regular version that can be controlled with antibiotics. But if its MRSA, then they are much harder to control and then can cause much worse problems. This can all be prevented of course by putting the patient on antibiotics right after the surgery. This would likely prevent many infections but this would have to be given to everyone whether they would be likely to become infected or not. This indiscrimnate use of antibiotics then leads to more MRSA being found in people. Screening for MRSA give the Hospital a chance to control it before it can become a problem. Best wishes for a speedy recovery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 No, I wasn't screened for MRSA before surgery. <timothyfarley16@...> wrote: > > > Yes. It supposedly gets folks with a compromised immune system -- that's us, right? > > > From: edultrasound@... > Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:29:00 -0800 > Subject: Re: [ ] MRSAs Since you mentioned a surgery, was the MRSA detected as part of a screening done before the procedure? Actually, it is somewhat common for healthy people to have some MRSA contamination of their body. All people have normal Staph Aureus living on their skin and inside their nasal passages. The MRSA variant has developed anbd become a problem with the overuse of antibiotics in our society. It has nothing to do with your history of CML. I would not characterize people with CML as having a compromised immune system. There might be some slight deficiencies due to age and perhaps lower blood cell counts but on the whole the immune system is quite functional. If it were not, there are a whole host of organisms that exist in in our bodies that would be attacking every day. Sort of a Catch-22 involved. Many times the surgery is performed without any chance for the bacteria to get in. Even if some do, then many times it is the regular version that can be controlled with antibiotics. But if its MRSA, then they are much harder to control and then can cause much worse problems. This can all be prevented of course by putting the patient on antibiotics right after the surgery. This would likely prevent many infections but this would have to be given to everyone whether they would be likely to become infected or not. This indiscrimnate use of antibiotics then leads to more MRSA being found in people. Screening for MRSA give the Hospital a chance to control it before it can become a problem. Best wishes for a speedy recovery. Margaret , mpraymond@... margaret-raymond@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 This is interesting to me because I had never heard of MRSA until my mother went in for pre-op screening and was found to have this.? Though she has no signs of it, they were not going to do her surgery until she was treated for it (?and she does not have any cancer) although I don't know what the treatment is. I do know that my mother may have been infected through a friend of my brother's who lived at his house for 3 months.? He infected clothes, bed linens, etc. and my brother now has it. It breaks out in lesions on his skin and his son has it too, though a milder case. My mother spent the weekend out at my brothers last summer and must have gotten it. I stayed at my mom's after her surgery and slept with her in her deluxe size king bed, and I hope to heck I did not get it. Does anyone know if this is a " new " disease or the history of this disease? - Lynne A. Since you mentioned a surgery, was the MRSA detected as part of a screening done before the procedure? Actually, it is somewhat common for healthy people to have some MRSA contamination of their body. All people have normal Staph Aureus living on their skin and inside their nasal passages. The MRSA variant has developed anbd become a problem with the overuse of antibiotics in our society. It has nothing to do with your history of CML. I would not characterize people with CML as having a compromised immune system. There might be some slight deficiencies Re: [ ] MRSAs Since you mentioned a surgery, was the MRSA detected as part of a screening done before the procedure? Actually, it is somewhat common for healthy people to have some MRSA contamination of their body. All people have normal Staph Aureus living on their skin and inside their nasal passages. The MRSA variant has developed anbd become a problem with the overuse of antibiotics in our society. It has nothing to do with your history of CML. I would not characterize people with CML as having a compromised immune system. There might be some slight deficiencies due to age and perhaps lower blood cell counts but on the whole the immune system is quite functional. If it were not, there are a whole host of organisms that exist in in our bodies that would be attacking every day. Sort of a Catch-22 involved. Many times the surgery is performed without any chance for the bacteria to get in. Even if some do, then many times it is the regular version that can be controlled with antibiotics. But if its MRSA, then they are much harder to control and then can cause much worse problems. This can all be prevented of course by putting the patient on antibiotics right after the surgery. This would likely prevent many infections but this would have to be given to everyone whether they would be likely to become infected or not. This indiscrimnate use of antibiotics then leads to more MRSA being found in people. Screening for MRSA give the Hospital a chance to control it before it can become a problem. Best wishes for a speedy recovery. Margaret , mpraymond@... margaret-raymond@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 The doctor who treated me yesterday says these infectons have been around forever, but are just now getting the spotlight. From: MoonQn1@... Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:55:44 -0500 Subject: Re: [ ] MRSAs This is interesting to me because I had never heard of MRSA until my mother went in for pre-op screening and was found to have this.? Though she has no signs of it, they were not going to do her surgery until she was treated for it (?and she does not have any cancer) although I don't know what the treatment is. I do know that my mother may have been infected through a friend of my brother's who lived at his house for 3 months.? He infected clothes, bed linens, etc. and my brother now has it. It breaks out in lesions on his skin and his son has it too, though a milder case. My mother spent the weekend out at my brothers last summer and must have gotten it. I stayed at my mom's after her surgery and slept with her in her deluxe size king bed, and I hope to heck I did not get it. Does anyone know if this is a " new " disease or the history of this disease? - Lynne A. Since you mentioned a surgery, was the MRSA detected as part of a screening done before the procedure? Actually, it is somewhat common for healthy people to have some MRSA contamination of their body. All people have normal Staph Aureus living on their skin and inside their nasal passages. The MRSA variant has developed anbd become a problem with the overuse of antibiotics in our society. It has nothing to do with your history of CML. I would not characterize people with CML as having a compromised immune system. There might be some slight deficiencies Re: [ ] MRSAs Since you mentioned a surgery, was the MRSA detected as part of a screening done before the procedure? Actually, it is somewhat common for healthy people to have some MRSA contamination of their body. All people have normal Staph Aureus living on their skin and inside their nasal passages. The MRSA variant has developed anbd become a problem with the overuse of antibiotics in our society. It has nothing to do with your history of CML. I would not characterize people with CML as having a compromised immune system. There might be some slight deficiencies due to age and perhaps lower blood cell counts but on the whole the immune system is quite functional. If it were not, there are a whole host of organisms that exist in in our bodies that would be attacking every day. Sort of a Catch-22 involved. Many times the surgery is performed without any chance for the bacteria to get in. Even if some do, then many times it is the regular version that can be controlled with antibiotics. But if its MRSA, then they are much harder to control and then can cause much worse problems. This can all be prevented of course by putting the patient on antibiotics right after the surgery. This would likely prevent many infections but this would have to be given to everyone whether they would be likely to become infected or not. This indiscrimnate use of antibiotics then leads to more MRSA being found in people. Screening for MRSA give the Hospital a chance to control it before it can become a problem. Best wishes for a speedy recovery. Margaret , mpraymond@... margaret-raymond@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 From what I understand this has been around for years mainly in the hospitals is where you would pick it up. And another problem is our bodies have become so immune to antiobiotics that a simple antiobiotic will not kill it. The most important thing to remember is never to pick at anything on your body. Not a pimple or an ingrown hair. That is how my son got it. Sharon _____ From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of Rosen Lum Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 12:59 PM Subject: RE: [ ] MRSAs The doctor who treated me yesterday says these infectons have been around forever, but are just now getting the spotlight. groups (DOT) <mailto:%40> com From: MoonQn1aol (DOT) <mailto:MoonQn1%40aol.com> com Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:55:44 -0500 Subject: Re: [ ] MRSAs This is interesting to me because I had never heard of MRSA until my mother went in for pre-op screening and was found to have this.? Though she has no signs of it, they were not going to do her surgery until she was treated for it (?and she does not have any cancer) although I don't know what the treatment is. I do know that my mother may have been infected through a friend of my brother's who lived at his house for 3 months.? He infected clothes, bed linens, etc. and my brother now has it. It breaks out in lesions on his skin and his son has it too, though a milder case. My mother spent the weekend out at my brothers last summer and must have gotten it. I stayed at my mom's after her surgery and slept with her in her deluxe size king bed, and I hope to heck I did not get it. Does anyone know if this is a " new " disease or the history of this disease? - Lynne A. Since you mentioned a surgery, was the MRSA detected as part of a screening done before the procedure? Actually, it is somewhat common for healthy people to have some MRSA contamination of their body. All people have normal Staph Aureus living on their skin and inside their nasal passages. The MRSA variant has developed anbd become a problem with the overuse of antibiotics in our society. It has nothing to do with your history of CML. I would not characterize people with CML as having a compromised immune system. There might be some slight deficiencies Re: [ ] MRSAs Since you mentioned a surgery, was the MRSA detected as part of a screening done before the procedure? Actually, it is somewhat common for healthy people to have some MRSA contamination of their body. All people have normal Staph Aureus living on their skin and inside their nasal passages. The MRSA variant has developed anbd become a problem with the overuse of antibiotics in our society. It has nothing to do with your history of CML. I would not characterize people with CML as having a compromised immune system. There might be some slight deficiencies due to age and perhaps lower blood cell counts but on the whole the immune system is quite functional. If it were not, there are a whole host of organisms that exist in in our bodies that would be attacking every day. Sort of a Catch-22 involved. Many times the surgery is performed without any chance for the bacteria to get in. Even if some do, then many times it is the regular version that can be controlled with antibiotics. But if its MRSA, then they are much harder to control and then can cause much worse problems. This can all be prevented of course by putting the patient on antibiotics right after the surgery. This would likely prevent many infections but this would have to be given to everyone whether they would be likely to become infected or not. This indiscrimnate use of antibiotics then leads to more MRSA being found in people. Screening for MRSA give the Hospital a chance to control it before it can become a problem. Best wishes for a speedy recovery. Margaret , mpraymond@sbcglobal <mailto:mpraymond%40sbcglobal.net> .net margaret-raymond@ <mailto:margaret-raymond%40cherokee.org> cherokee.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 30, 2008 Report Share Posted January 30, 2008 Thank you for the information, Sharon. Re: [ ] MRSAs Since you mentioned a surgery, was the MRSA detected as part of a screening done before the procedure? Actually, it is somewhat common for healthy people to have some MRSA contamination of their body. All people have normal Staph Aureus living on their skin and inside their nasal passages. The MRSA variant has developed anbd become a problem with the overuse of antibiotics in our society. It has nothing to do with your history of CML. I would not characterize people with CML as having a compromised immune system. There might be some slight deficiencies due to age and perhaps lower blood cell counts but on the whole the immune system is quite functional. If it were not, there are a whole host of organisms that exist in in our bodies that would be attacking every day. Sort of a Catch-22 involved. Many times the surgery is performed without any chance for the bacteria to get in. Even if some do, then many times it is the regular version that can be controlled with antibiotics. But if its MRSA, then they are much harder to control and then can cause much worse problems. This can all be prevented of course by putting the patient on antibiotics right after the surgery. This would likely prevent many infections but this would have to be given to everyone whether they would be likely to become infected or not. This indiscrimnate use of antibiotics then leads to more MRSA being found in people. Screening for MRSA give the Hospital a chance to control it before it can become a problem. Best wishes for a speedy recovery. Margaret , mpraymond@sbcglobal <mailto:mpraymond%40sbcglobal.net> .net margaret-raymond@ <mailto:margaret-raymond%40cherokee.org> cherokee.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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