MRSA Notes

Ryan Dowling’s father sent me their son’s story a couple of days ago – Ryan suffered a life threatening MRSA infection, yet another victim of MRSA in an athletic setting. Ryan’s father says he is still battling the effects of MRSA, and may possibly need a hip replacement – please keep Ryan in your prayers, [...]

I wrote the Pediatrics guide at About.com a year or so ago to ask him to work on the MRSA resources at his site, and I believe he has. Do check it out and explore all of the information and links at his great site! MRSA Infections in Children at About.com MRSA in Children

A new, rapid test for Staphylococcal infection and colonization for mothers in labor has now become available from Cepheid. Staph is the number one cause of early onset infection in newborns, and prior to this, mothers were tested before childbirth, but the tests had to be sent to the lab with a turn around time [...]

Australia’s National Prescribing Service (NPR) has begun a new countrywide campaign to educate its citizens about the differences between colds, viruses and bacterial infections and the uses of antibiotics in treating them. At their main program page there are downloads, an interactive storybook, mp3 radio advertisements and best of all, lots of good information. This [...]

It is especially sad when your child gets MRSA. I thought it was heartbreaking to see my husband go through this – I cannot fathom what it would be like to see my child go through it. Both of my children on occasion get staphylococcal skin infections, but luckily, we haven’t been though antibiotic resistant [...]

Brandon, a 2 yr old boy is discovered to have a CA-MRSA infection after a fall. From the Missouri News Tribune: On May 4, two-year-old Brandon Stafford of Jefferson City was happily bouncing up and down on a trampoline while visiting his father in Memphis, Tenn., when he landed on his leg. While it didn’t [...]

This is a very useful article from STLtoday about the proper care of common summertime wounds and injuries: Wound infections most often happen when bacteria, especially staphylococcus (staph) or streptococcus (strep), invade the body through a break in the skin. Sometimes infections start with a closed rash and become infected because a child scratches or [...]

This is my best effort for the b5media’s Science and Health Channels June theme day, featuring “The Sun.” There just isn’t much to say to connect MRSA and the sun – and I really am not the most creative gal on the planet to be quite honest. I could talk about the sun and what [...]

In talking to people who have struggled with MRSA for over a year now, I hear inspirational stories a lot, but this one is quite an awe inspiring one. Dream Mom has been blogging about caring for her disabled teenaged son (Dear Son) for several months now. Dear Son, who has battled MRSA before, battled [...]

Here is yet another story, but one with a happy ending unlke so many others, of a healthy young athlete acquiring CA-MRSA. This is the same story I hear over and over, and the same story we went through. Jerod is a lucky young man!! Jerod bruised his hip in a pickup basketball game at [...]