MRSA Notes

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• Nichole Blankinship // Nov 12, 2007 at 6:39 pm

  This is statement is a bit misleading as there are several variants of MSSA that are also resistant to antibiotics. The difference between MSSA and MRSA and the antibiotic resistance is that MRSA is resistant to all methicillins. For example, I have had MSSA and the strain I had was resistant to penicillin and to erythromycin, yet was susceptible to methicillin hence titled MSSA not MRSA.

• cindy mars // May 15, 2010 at 11:08 pm

  Hello, writing to find out if there are any new strains of mrsa out there? My son, who is 19, has our cf doctors stumped. He has mrsa and the only way we can treat it is thru linezolid. BUT, we know we can’t continue this forever. If you have any information on any new strains out there would SO much appreciate any information. My e-mail is: marsfamilyof5@yahoo.com

• carl meyers // Aug 4, 2010 at 3:18 pm

  I developed MSSA during spine surgery, an
  infection that didn’t manifest itself for 7 months.
  When it was discovewred, the Infectious Disease
  Doctors didn’t exactly know what anti biotic to
  use for tretament. We started IV’s using these:
  RoseEffen ( 6 wks), then Vancoymycin (6wks)
  then Oxycillin (2 wks). It was contained then
  eliminated, although I continue on Doxycycline
  (100mg daily). During the process I lost 60lbs
  and were it not for encouragment from loved
  ones and friends I might not be here. I’ve put
  back 40 of the lost 60lbs during this year that
  I’ve been home. I hope this info helps many.

• Christy Campbell // Aug 17, 2010 at 6:32 pm

  I have had mrsa for 12 years. I have had numerous infections of the skin that have come up at various time all over my body, even my face and neck. The only antibiotic that I believe can help get this awful condition under control is vancomycin. Almost all regular MDs will try you on bactrun first. That’s a waist of time and just another antibiotic you don’t need. Bypass a regular doc and go straight to an infectious disease doctor. About two years ago I began using a nettle pot to clean my nose about three times a week and faithfully taking a probiotic. I have had a break for almost two years until now. Now I tested positive for mssa. This is a different strain that can be treated with cillan meeds. I am actually happy. Mssa gives you more treatment options than mrsa. I have to be honest and say this disease has been in my lungs 3 times. If it kills me that will be how, but I have some hope since the strain has changed and mss a is more treatable. If anyone out there would like to talk to me feel free to email. Hope this info helps.

• V // Oct 22, 2010 at 1:34 pm

  Interested in all types of prevention of mrsa or mssa for me and my family.

• Ann Wooledge // Oct 25, 2010 at 8:04 pm

  As a registered nurse and a clinical aromatherapist I can tell you that essential oils can cure MRSA. I have several of my own case histories, plus many other aromatherapists have had success using this modality. I don’t know why the medical industry has not accepted this as an alternative.

• Nancy // Jan 11, 2011 at 5:06 pm

  Has anyone had any success with ‘wound honey’?

• teresa // Jan 11, 2011 at 6:21 pm

  I had MRSA. I had outbreaks under my armpit. my last outbreak was 1 and 1/2 years ago. I am pretty sure if I get another….it will be a new infection. Doctors gave me a sulfa antibiotics but had another outbreak. I used tea tree oil up my nose. I put myself on an alkaline diet. And Ate yogurt and took probiotics. I drank turmeric in tomato juice. I drank colloidal silver.I wore plain yogurt like lotion after a hibicleanse bath. I ate 18-20 cloves of fresh chopped garlic everyday for 3-4 weeks . I bleached my tub sink and toilet after every use. I put tea tree oil directly on my boil.

• Nichole Blankinship // Jan 12, 2011 at 1:10 pm

  I actually tried the honey for a bit and it didn’t really make a difference- the tea tree oil(the real kind) helped to disinfect the wound and helped the “cure” time be much quicker than other outbreaks–take showers instead of baths(it spreads to other areas) and be RELIGIOUS about cleaning your home/bedding/everything touched to try and prevent another outbreak(especially when you have an active outbreak) Every time you have to touch/clean the actual area I would recommend disposable gloves and the tea tree oil. Hibiclens also works well to full body cleanse. I am so paranoid about another recurrence I try and do everything possible to prevent it. Turmeric and garlic supplements help as well. Try and keep your immune system up and running as it helps to prevent future outbreaks. My original doctor was moronic and I had to basically tell him what my problems was(and it tested as MRSA when he tested) . Be careful with doctors and their knowledge- def recommend infectious disease dr. instead of primary. Don’t dry your face after a shower until rest of your body is clean(nose can harbor the infection) and if you do get an outbreak, silicon patches over any “holes” after helps scarring immensely. I live in fear of the next infection(you all know how i feel!) and hope to eventually beat it.(i know, i know- dream on) Hope I helped, write if you have any questions!

• teresa // Jan 14, 2011 at 2:14 pm

  I should mention I don’t live in fear. I now live normally without holistic means and without obsessive compulsive cleaning.it only took 4 weeks between antibiotics and holistic remedies. Although, I continued yogurt “lotion” longer, in case mrsa survived my cleaning.I also did a colon cleanse after I healed, just to be safe. Tested negative and never had another outbreak.

• teresa // Jan 14, 2011 at 2:42 pm

  Moviles, my reading says garlic supplements have little to no allicin the active mrsa killer. Try eating 18 to 20 cloves of fresh garlic with cream cheese on a bagel(my alkaline down fall) no milk, sugar caffeine etc. Veggie diet, grapefruits and lemons. Colloidal silver, turmeric minimum twice a day. Wear plain yogurt as a barrier and stop hibicleanse, when you don’t have an outbreak. Always wear clean clothes sounds like you have the cleaning down pat. I always sprayed sink, tub toilet after use with bleach and left it…did not wipe. No bath rugs unless a towel that got bleached.leave shoes at the door, beaches all floors often. Over lysol my furniture. Even lightly bleach sprayed it when I considered getting new furniture. I still have the old. I bleached pillows with the linen. Like I said west yogurt when your body feels better you can feel the difference, to protect from reinfection get all nooks and crannies.tea tree oil up the nose can burn a but, but it kills mrsa.I put it on a bandage on my Boil overnight and before it could fester you know the way they do, it was gone by morning.doctors don’t think you can kill mrsa, people who have want to charge you to learn how. I am telling all of you how I did. Read my previous post. If anyone wants to know the specifics of what I did I will take the time to post it here for all. I kept a journal. You can kill it, you have to be determined. But my battle was mine…learn the side effects of natural remedies and be wise. Turmeric can interfere with chemotherapy. Things like that, educate yourself.

• Christy Campbell // Jan 14, 2011 at 11:45 pm

  I too, use tea tree oil. Has to be 100 percent. Also breathing in and taking certain essential oils. I also flush my nasal passages with warm saline. I do believe that these steps have helped me a great deal in battling my staph. This isn’t anything a doctor will tell you to do. Part of getting ahead of this disease is learning all you can and if there is something holistic that will help, tea tree oil being one, it’s the first step in you taking control and not this illness controlling you!

• teresa // Jan 15, 2011 at 3:37 am

  My symptoms…boil in right armpit, followed by returning boils every month in the same armpit…severe leg aches, I would almost cry…so lethargic, getting my morning coffee was exhausting…brain fog, also known as CRS for those who like funnies …dizziness…shortness of breath…unusual heart palpitations…unexplained sudden weight loss…dark circles around my eyes.
  What Did I think? “I’m dying”
  I finally realized the boils that keep coming back must have something to do with my illness. I just kept telling my hunny ” I just don’t feel good, somethings wrong”. I went online and found a few different possible diagnoses…so without insurance, I bravely went to the doctor. He squeezed and sampled my icky boil and sent me home. Didnt even comment on my list of symptoms.The next week I called in for the results and was told it was mrsa. They told me I could pick up my script…sulfameth,I teared up and only told my hunny. I took off work and spent the next week researching everything I could find on mrsa while I was taking my pills bleaching my house and trying to not give it to my 3 kids. I started a list of scientific studies of things that kill mrsa and things that “might” help. I went to one of those organic hippie stores(i love those places) and bought what I could afford, starting with the scientifically proven first. Then I purchased items I thought I could eat on an alkaline diet. I prefer hamburgers, so this was hard.
  Next I bought all natural tea tree oil and lavender soaps. Went to walmart and got bleach, hibecleanse.
  My total list: sovereign silver,goji juice,hemp fiber shake,plain active yogurt and yummy edible kind,turmeric powder,fish oil,ascorbic acid (vitamin c powder) manganese supplements,magnesium supplements, bagels, cream cheese, lots of garlic.100% pure tea tree oil, bottle of probiotics.organic split peas for soup, lemons, cabbage, lettuce,carrots,grapefruits,all organic oh …broccoli sprouts.
  I wrote a menu on my routine I would use.
  Before breakfast: silver, 1 teaspoon (or so ) rinse 30 seconds and swallow. Wait 15-30 minutes, goji juice 2 tablespoons wait 15-30 minutes. Hemp shake,yogurt, fruit.manganese and glass of water, ascorbic acid 1 teaspoon in water. Snack with fresh diced garlic 6- 10 cloves (goal 18- 20 cloves per day) another glass of water.
  Before lunch: silver same process as breakfast, goji juice same process,turmeric 1 tablespoon in warm water or tomato juice (i preferred tomato juice),yogurt, more garlic,fish oil 2 teaspoons per day. After lunch,teaspoon ascorbic acid in water. Later more water.
  Before dinner: silver same process, goji juice same process add raw garlic to my dinner (ate lots of bagels and cream cheese,only way I could choke down so much garlic) .

  When I finished my antibiotics I got another boil.
  So I put tea tree oil on it with a bandage and it actually hissed like gas escaping…TMI? I left it on over night and by morning I could see it but the lump was gone. I added more oil and went about my obsessive bleach cleaning.fresh bedding,sprayed mattress with lysol or bleach. Bleached all knobs, counters, remotes, door knobs, bleach laundry , bleach or lysol laundry basket, quick bleach mop, wash dishes in bleach water. I always used way more bleach than recommended. Extra bleach bathrooms.bleached everything. Tried to stick to the alkaline diet with slight cheats, like turkey. No caffeine(ya I know it sucked) no sugar.except in my yummy yogurt. I took a probiotics every night. I took my hibecleanse bath, sprayed the bathroom with bleach Q-tipped tea tree oil in my nose and put more on my boil, went to bed between 7 or 8 every night. Oh said sincere prayers.
  I decided to also hibecleanse the family after a few days and did so religiously along with tea tree oil up their noses. Then when the boil was gone I started putting yogurt on me and the family after every bath for about a week. Then stopped hibecleanse and moved to just yogurt and still tea tree oil. The oil sometimes 3- 4 times a day. Then I got my colon cleanse delivered and got started.ordered it online. Now the colon cleanse is a long story…ha ha ha. But after that…..no boils. Oh I just knew another one was there everytime I found any Pimple or bump it was like ptsd. I was very nervous.
  No more mrsa…well until a girl came to stay with us….with mrsa. She stayed 2 days and I’m still bleaching, and yogurting, and tea tree oiling. But hopefully she learned what I tried to tell her. Up until she came…it was like mrsa never happened, life was normal…..any questions feel free…just remember…this worked for me…I’m not a doctor…I can tell you I think cleanliness, oil, turmeric,silver were the key then yogurt and probiotics…but I don’t know. Maybe one of the other things I used helped can’t ever know…don’t wanna do it again, but it was worth it.

• teresa // Jan 15, 2011 at 3:48 am

  Oops forgot to mention….no shaving…no deodorant….but if you must then only spray.throw away all possible infected items like razors, toothbrushes, deodorant, bleach hair brushes, nail clippers etc…become ocd, its not so bad.its not easy to do all that and deal with lethargy…couldn’t always do everything…I did my best and took naps.

• George // Feb 23, 2011 at 1:01 pm

  I contracted mssa from a dental procedure and it attacked my heart, had to have open-heart – aortic valve and by-pass…….

• Tanisha // Mar 3, 2011 at 9:55 am

  Hello,

  Theresa…My family has been battling MRSA for the past 3 yrs. I feel like i am going crazy at this point becuase of it. I greatly appreciate your information and i am going out today to purchase these items. God Bless

• teresa // Mar 10, 2011 at 1:01 am

  Tanisha,
  If you have any questions just ask…I don’t know if you have children, but I also gave my kids the colloidal silver….there was no way I could have them eat garlic the way I did. Although I did add garlic to most of their meals. I hope it helps you and your family. I believe we have to cleanse the inside as well as the outside. We wore plain,active yogurt like lotion because of a study I read that showed how bacteria cannot move in where bacteria (yogurt) lives.It showed that yogurt lives for weeks on skin that is not washed….so I concluded that mrsa could not reinfect us if we were already covered in bacteria. It really only took a few weeks of dedication and obsessive cleaning. The colon cleanse I did was also a body detoxification…it was 3 months.I chose them for their all natural ingredients. You can Google the stuff I used with mrsa and learn more.example: garlic mrsa …it will give a lot of info and studies. Don’t fall for garlic pills…you need the allicin which comes from a fresh crushed or diced garlic. Allicin dissipates when processed for pills. Eat the garlic within 15 minutes of chopping. I hope I can help someone out there….mrsa was awful. I think the tea tree oil helped the scars also….not sure,but the black scars are gone.maybe lavender oil? I never looked into it….just happy they’re gone.

• Treye // May 24, 2011 at 12:30 pm

  Hello, MRSA sucks! From my extensive reading it appears that garlic (fresh or pills) is biounavailable, whereas to be bioavailable would be like having an IV with the Allicin straight into your blood stream and then it would oxidize your blood , which would not be good either. Maybe do some reading on Allicin, pretty good info out there. Any how, I am going to try crush garlic and or tea tree oil for our infections. Thanks!

• bohica // May 24, 2011 at 2:38 pm

  a high colonic might work as well

• dev // Oct 20, 2011 at 4:12 am

  I had UTI. During examination I was found to have MSSA. What should be done to overcome
  this.

• Marilyn // Oct 23, 2011 at 11:00 pm

  Ok im a mom of a 16 month old baby girl an im gettin so tired of these absest coming up on her im so tired of them cutting on her an all i keep gettin is everyone has staph on there skin an they react different my baby has came back positive with mrsa then another shows up an she comes back positive with MSSA an we get the same stupid meds every time an on September 4 of this year she got admitted into the hospital an was put to sleep an had to have another one cut open an tubes put in her leg an her Dr says well she been gettin at least one once a month and im like and you don’t see a problem with it??? But he says he sees kids all the time that’s not the point the point is im tired of my baby girl gettin cut on like a chopping block

• teresa // Nov 29, 2011 at 1:24 am

  Marilyn,
  I can’t tell you what would work, but if she were my baby, I would put her on a bland vegetable diet. Organic home cooked vegetables. Then I would get the colloidal silver and give it to her at least 4 times a day. Then I would test 100% tea tree oil on her skin. If it was safe I would put it directly on the boil and bandage it overnight. I would get the nasal bactricin from the doctors for her if they think its safe. I would put plain active yogurt on her skin after every bath. Feed her the yogurt throughout the say however she would eat it. I would blend a garlic in and add a bit to all her food if it doesn’t upset her tummy in tiny doses.Then everyone else in the house would go through a similar process in case they are carriers. Bleach everything, and door knobs, fridge handles, cupboard handles, faucet handles daily, bathroom spray with bleach and leave it. I would try it for at least a month and if it works…taper down to a normal diet and cleaning, then continue the yogurt eating and wearing, a bit longer. This is assuming she has no other health conditions to worry about. If her doctors won’t work with you, find one who will. Not all doctors are opposed to a natural approach, just most of them. Don’t take her off her prescription, work with it and tell the doctor what you intend to do and ask for cooperation.

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