MRSA Notes

This is taken from a post on the MRSA YahooGroup - reprinted with permission from the author, Bryan, age 30 in Southern, CA. Take his story and advice and apply it to your own situation:
I had an MRSA infection on my leg just above my knee that was misdiagnosed as a spider bite at first […]

I received this in an email last week, and it is an eloquent plea from a concerned person (presumably from the UK) for the hospitals to do some basic things that could well help prevent the spread of HA-MRSA in hospitals. I totally agree with him - there are so many small things that […]

I hate to hear this, but some folk’s favorite remedy for MRSA/Staph boils - tea tree oil (aka melaleuca oil) - has been proven to cause antibiotic resistance. What this means for you is that if tea tree oil has been doing a bang up job healing your infections, it won’t last forever. […]

If you have heard the term MSSA in your MRSA research and didn’t know what it meant, I ran into a little article today that explains it very simply.

MSSA stands for Methicillin-Sensitive Staphylococcus aureus and refers to all of the antibiotic-sensitive strains of Staph aureus, a common bacteria that can cause a wide variety […]

Researchers have been looking for specific risk factors for CA-MRSA, meaning that they are looking at lifestyle, locations and any activities that have been done by CA-MRSA patients that could be the basis for their infections. They have found none.

“What this means”, says Dr. Miller, “is that the average Joe or Jane can […]

I wish I could take the credit for this great list, but my dear friend Michelle, one of the many loving regulars on the MRSA forum, is the rightful author. This is a compilation of things we are asked and talk about all the time in regards to keeping your house clean while you […]

I hate to even talk about this, but I have heard two horrific stories lately of babies born with MRSA septicemia. This is a VERY technical article, titled “What Organisms Cause Neonatal Sepsis,” but if you need it, it is here, at PediatricEducation.org.
One thing interesting to me in this article was that Staphylococcus aureus […]

Can you guess what they are? The answers might not be what you think:
1. Kitchen Sponges and Dishrags - you can microwave your sponges to kill bacteria - but be sure they are wet when you put them in - they have been known to ignite! I much prefer throwing out the […]

Green Tea has so many benefits to your body, which is something that has been known for ages, and it has been long suspected that it has infection fighting agents as well. Now the specific bacteria fighting agents within the tea have been found.

Now researchers from the National institute of Chemistry in Ljubljana, […]

Welcome to another Theme Day at the Science & Health channel at b5media! We have come a good way over the past year in helping make folks aware of MRSA and here is an overview of some of the most influential events of 2006.
January 2006 - ESPN Broadcaster Jack Snow dies from complications from […]