I don't. Once you have read the first link in my post, you know as much about Loxosceles Reclusa spiders as I do.
Its not. My husband's uncle died from it (sorry to say this) but he was a smoker in his 70s so he wasn't in as good of health as he could have been. Uncle Fred went to the hosp the day after a bowling tournament. The CDC hauled him team and the other teams he played into the hospital. And basically quarantined the bowling alley for a day. Nothing was found. They assumed he got it doing yard work. I don't know what strain it was.
Yeesh. It's ok, thank you for telling me about your experience. I've already heard most people die from it, so I'm not too shocked. Just hoping for the best at this point. I'm sorry about your uncle.
mrow i THINK you will find the reason the CDC is intersted is symply because they are trying to control the spread. In australia MRSA is mostly confined to hospitals and nursing homes but its still a reportable disease because the health departments want to keep it as confined as posable. The reason for that is that the reason MRSA kills is that the pt is normally already weakened and its hard to treat, HOWEVER if a bactira like manincocal "learnt" the trick from it and became resistant 1000's could die if not more. At least this is my understanding I actually did a search for necrotising facitis and MRSA and i had quite a hard time tracking any infomation down because there have only been 2 confermed cases where MRSA has caused it acording to what i found. So it could be that they changed antibiotics because its not actually MRSA
Yeah, that’s right because I’m sure the doctors have never heard of vancomycin. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Stop dispensing medical advice you ass clown. You are in no position to advise on what should be administered. You could be of most service by STFU.
mrow im sorry for disputing you, you know what they are saying and i can only give you the infomation i have found. The australian health departments didnt even mention necrotising facititis in there MRSA pages so i cant tell you what treatment is recomended I did find one cohrane review on treatments for necrotising facitis but it didnt mention MRSA at all, if your interested i will look it up again for you. I didnt get a chance to read it last night but IF it found the treatment was effective i cant see why it wouldnt be for your father because it wasnt an antibotic treatment but rather a sugical one where they vacume out the wound. As i said though i only had a really quick glance so i dont know wether they said it worked or not
You're not disputing me, you're disputing 3 doctors, an infectious disease specialist, and a member of the CDC. You might be right though, but I really wouldn't know. But regardless, I am not there, ok? I know only what doctors tell my mom that she then tells me. I wish I were there so this wouldn't be so nerve wracking. So if they say he has MRSA then I just want to learn as much about the disease as I can so I have a better idea of the odds and what kind of pain he's in. I love him very much and this is driving me crazy. I know when he was on it yesterday, he was given 600mg of it an hour for a full day through IV. It's a very strong antibiotic. Maybe they can't give him more than that without hurting him.
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Aww no no not at all! You've been a great help. You misunderstood me. I meant you're not disputing me because I know absolutely nothing about it. Any information I'm posting here about his case came from the mouths of the doctors so whether they are wrong or not I'd never know. I hope I don't have reason to question them.
What are you talking about? MRSA is just a strain of staph that's resistant to most antibiotics (specifically, methacillin). It doesn't have to present in the way you describe at all. My sister had it, she had none of the symptoms you describe. She thought it was cured and then stupidly slept in the same bed as my niece and gave it to her. It's a pain in the ass, but you just have to figure out what antibiotic will kill it. Mrow, is your father seeing an infectious disease specialist? And I don't think most people die from it. My sister, my niece, and one of my patients had it (the patient had it in her eye!Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!) and none of them died.
well spotted mad, i missed that one. orbit mad is right, what the hell are you talking about. its MRSA not anthrax, lots of people get staff infections and recover quite well. Generally they are quite mild and can be treated. They are also in most cases topical and dont become systemic. What your describing is septic shock (i think) which is POSSABE but not inevitable with MRSA
Orbit is describing a septicemic staph infection, the most serious form. http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publichealt...althcareacquiredgeneralinformation/DH_4093113
Well, sure. But he was saying that unless mrow's father had septicemia he didn't have MRSA. Which is, of course, not true.
This thread makes my head hurt. draqon, you should stop posting in Biology and Genetics altogether, because going through all the bullshit you post and setting people straight would be a full time job for all of the serious posters of this place. mrow, I'm sorry about your father's infection. Know he's already receiving the best of care, and with his health record I'm sure he'll be just fine. The best thing to do is read about the bacteria on wikipedia for the basics. Take anything that your mom tells you the doctors have said, and try to reference some of the terms to the wiki article. If you're having trouble with that, you can always do searches on resources such as PubMed which is going to search a large portion of reputable peer reviewed journals of all types. Chances are there are many published papers there that may have the information you are looking for. You can also use the references section at the bottom of the wiki article for further research, since most of the information presented there will have come from a peer reviewed paper or textbook. While reading articles, if you have any questions, you can feel free to ask them here (some of the jargon and terms can be confusing if you're not in the field -- those articles are rarely written for the layman) and there are people around that can do their best to explain some of it (CharonZ I believe is a microbiologist, and Hercules or SAM may be able to help as well). Ignore the message board medical practitioners -- although you didn't come here for a diagnosis anyway. **edit -- I wrote this post working under the assumption that you have little formal education on certain aspects of the topic. But, after reading some of that Q and A thread you started, I may be mistaken. I meant no offense.
Some of the journals will require subscriptions if they are newer publications. If you access them from your school, you should be able to read most of them, however.
medline is a great resorce if you have access but i think you will have to access it through a university. The public health sections of the health departments have some good infomation to, i dont know how much publically avialable infomation there is on the CDC though. WHO is great as well Oh and idle mind if that was aimed at me then piffle to you.
