Guest guest Posted July 16, 2003 Report Share Posted July 16, 2003 When they tested Traci they took a culture from every open area from top to bottom. Have your Mom get tested first. Lynette Mom to Traci 8w/cf and 12w/ocf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 21, 2003 Report Share Posted July 21, 2003 YES, Best wishes from me too .!! What a wonderful spirit he has, he will do very well LOVE & HUGS, GrandmomBEV MRSA Hi All, I just wanted to add a bit to this. I have recently started working in an assisted living home where 2 of the residents have MRSA I became concerned about it because not only do I have a 17 yr old son with CF but I also have a husband that has just finished 8 months of Chemo Therapy, Needless to say I was worried about what I could bring home to both of them. Well DJ (my 17 yro w/cf ) already has MRSA and they told us to be careful with my husband and not to let him take care of the waste basket that DJ puts his tissues in and not to be in the room where he does his treatments and to be sure to cover his mouth when he coughs. The main thing is good hygiene you must wash wash, wash your hands. And for me I must wear gloves when working with these people. I would also like to add this, DJ is pursuing a career in Nursing he starts this fall in collage and will be in the nursing program next fall. He had asked his doc if do this would be a problem and his CF doc said this to him....the only thing I can see is you not working with other CF kids or with cancer patients and that makes since so he has changed from wanting to be a pediatrics nurse to wanting to be a traveling nurse where he can make big money and go all over the world. on that one we will just wait and see what his own health brings but it is a good out look i think. and I wish him all the best in anything he chooses to do as he is a fighter and will not let this disease get him down hugs mother of DJ 17 yro m w/cf >, mommy of 4, almost 4 wCF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 17, 2003 Report Share Posted September 17, 2003 Just to add to e's information about MRSA: In the past few years it has been becoming more prevalent in the general community. It is particularly found in some nursing homes and daycare centers. It is widespread in some hospitals but others have been able to keep it well under control It is thought to be spread primarily by direct contact, though it is possible that it could be spread by droplet contamination if one coughs forcefully. It is a staph bacteria and can cause problems like any staph bacteria OR it can remain relatively benign and a person may simply be a carrier of the bacteria. It becomes problematic when the staph causes symptoms in a person because it is not sensitive to the usual antibiotics that one would use for staph. Vancomycin used to be used frequently for infections but with the emergence of MRSA, the medical community reached a general consensus to withhold its use except for the more stubborn or resistant bacteria. That has allowed many MRSA strains to remain sensitive to Vancomycin because they have had little exposure to it. It is now used to try to eradicate cases of MRSA that are causing symptoms or to bring the bacteria back under control. If one is on antibiotics for staph, sometimes switching oral antibiotics from one to another allows the staph time to become sensitive to the original one again. As e says, sometimes it seems to come and go on its own. Is the person being reinfected from a community or hospital source? Is their own staph frequently building resistance and losing it again? Is it continually there but not always cultured? Unfortunately we don't yet have the answers to those questions. If one cultures MRSA, isolation procedures are usually implemented for that person in clinic and hospital settings until Infection Control rules at that institution declare the person free of MRSA (those rules are not standardized). M .. MRSA > Ashauna, > Well you asked the right person about MRSA, because I am now an unofficial expert. When goes to the doctor I end up having to call family and friends and interpret for then what the dr. said. So here is what I found out about MRSA. I have the web links if you would like them too! ( I'm really not as organized as I sound) > > > Do you remember hearing about bacteria that were immune to penicillin? It caused a big hoopla in the early '90's. That is what this is. It has been around for about 40 years and is mainly found in hospital settings. People who are at risk of staph infection ( post op, etc) have the risk of getting MRSA. When this happens, an alternative to pencillin based antibiotics needs to be used. MRSA does not typically infect the entire respiratory system, but rather it tends to colonize in the upper airways. This means that it can go away and either stay gone, or re-occur periodically, or never go away. According to my dr., Europe has found a way to erradicate it from the body. Ok, so what happens to a CFer who gets this? Another test is usually done in 3 weeks to determine what is going on. It does not have any adverse effects on the lungs. It can effect growth in children and x-rays tend to look worse than what they are. A person with MRSA is encouraged to stay away from others who > have any kind of chronic disease as it is infectious. So if my daughter was playing with your cfer, the chances of her passing MRSA is high. However, this does not mean that your child will become sick. Hmmm, I think thats about it. Oh, 's doctor said that if she becomes sick, then they would have to use a different kind of antibiotic to make her better. I think thats really all there is to it. We are a bit dumbfounded as to how/where she got it as she has not been in the hospital lately. So it becomes another one of those " why me " questions. > > Hope that helps, > e > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 18, 2003 Report Share Posted September 18, 2003 Thanks e, I have heard so many things about this bacteria and they all contradict eachother. Don't want to send bad news your way since you are dealing with it but in some cases people who develope this bacteria get ferosiouly ill. Perhaps they also have a different bateria and the two take a tole on those people. Who knows it is all so individualized this disease. I do know that it is said to have come about because the docs used to prescribe PNC for every thing way back when. Makes you think about all these bacterias and the treatments that they use. I thank you for sending info. I would love to look web sites up. Ashauna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 18, 2003 Report Share Posted September 18, 2003 Thanks , Question. Is Staph a relitively hard bacteria to eradicate? This seems to be the case with my son. He is not in day care he is at home with me and I try to be impecable cleaner. I just don't get why we can not get rid of it. I go to clinic on oct 1 so I will ask for a repeat cutlure to see what is going on how but I bet it is still there. Should he be taking home anti. oral. He is not at time and never has just IV in hospital. Fortaz and Tobramycin Thanks again' Ashauna Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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