MRSA Notes

I have been contacted by a reporter doing a story on MRSA in Texas athletes: I’ve contacted several high school and college athletic trainers about MRSA and they told me it wasn’t a problem, they’d neither seen nor heard of any athletes being infected, and were just telling kids to wash their hands more often. [...]

These are courtesy of my dear friends at RID: 1. Encourage students to clean their hands frequently   2. Parents, tuck a small container of hand sanitizer in your child’s book bag, if your child is mature enough to use it properly.   3. Educators, install dispensers of hand-sanitizer inside each classroom. Students should not [...]

Sadly, the catalyst for letting this MRSA problem out of the closet was the death of a Staunton River High School (VA) student, Ashton Bonds. My heart goes out to Ashton’s family. Share This

There is a wonderful article in LHJ this month on MRSA, featuring the story of CJ Jackson, son of my friend Francine Jackson. You can read the entire article at the RID web site – it is full of basic information that everyone needs to know about MRSA and CJ’s wonderful story that will hopefully [...]

 Four year old Caleb Noblitt survived an MRSA infection in his pelvis and spine, and is part of a video on channel 4 in Denver – looking just as vibrant as a little child should.  Bless his heart, I can only imagine what his family has gone through!  Share This

I remember *way back when* I was a teenager – we did all sorts of completely stupid things like carving our skin up with peace signs or band logos with knives. Yah, dumb stuff. This is the tale of a 14 yr old in Utah, playing the “ABC game,” where the kids see how long [...]

This is SUCH a horrible story, and one that probably hits close to home for a lot of us, I know it does for me. Little Luke Day, 36 hours old, died in a UK hospital 2 years ago, and his court case has come up in the UK this week, bringing little Luke back [...]

I am so sad to report that 12 yr old Carlos Don lost his battle with MRSA septicemia in the early hours of Sunday morning. My heart breaks for his family. Carlos’s family said two weeks ago, he was at Camp Cuyamaca with 200 other Ramona sixth-graders when he came home very sick. Officials from [...]

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 [...]

Isis Nizer is an 11 year old girl in Ocala, Florida who is now suffering septicemia resulting from a kick to the leg way back in November. Isis first developed a blood clot in her thigh bone on Sunday after her knee injury. She was transferred to Shands Alachua General Hospital for treatment. By Monday [...]