methicillin-resistant Staphylococcuss aureus

[Kristie]

My Grandmother has this is deadly it kills, i am so scared as mum has bough my GM bandages home and her clothes and washed with ours.

MRSA can be caught they not much they can do with this super bug, i am freaking out i am shaking i feel totally sick i so scared the kids expecailly Jordan will get this.

After him being so ill with phenomena(SP) last year x 2 ahh feel selfish worry sick about my kids

If anyones know more about this yeah did goggle i won't be sleeping tonight now

Thanks Kristie

[~Miss Cinders~]

Oh Kristie *mega hugs* chook
man you've had a rough go of it over the past 12 months!

I've never heard of it before.
But just remember your Grandmother is one tough cookie

[~karen~]

mrsa is a common super bug - you are correct

it can be killed with sunlight - i remember as a kid my mum given a week off work (she was a charge nurse) to sit in the sun as they used to swab the nurses noses - stopped doing that before i started training as it's pretty much a given that every nurse working in a hospital will have it up their nose at some stage during their career

it really does depend where it is - so please don't worry too much - it's a contact thing
please deep breath's and try hard not to worry too much
hugs
karen

[fizz]

Try not to let dr google scare you about this one. MRSA is usually harmless and only becomes prolematic to the generally healthy population when it gets into wounds etc. that said i nurse cancer patients every day who have poor immune syatems and have no ill effets of the MRSA that they carry. Most of the time it lives in people noses without us being Any the wiser. Your kids are at no greater risk due to there contact with your grandmother. Please dont getb freked out about this one and i hope your grandmother is Doing better soon. Hope that helps. Hugs.
Fiona

[Kristie]

Thank you Karen it was on her legs she had 2 mini stokes in post 3 weeks and now she seeing things ahh it's nit fair she don't deserve this.

Over this year taken all my loves ones away from me

Donna she is but this is not good for her *cries* , ahh D i should not;t complain ppl are so much worse off than I i feel selfish carrying on.


Thanks so much Fiona for wonderful and re assuring Info i just freak when i hear stuff like this and yeah very bad trying to find info on it *blush so thanks
thanks ladies

[zoekisses]

Try not to let dr google scare you about this one. MRSA is usually harmless and only becomes prolematic to the generally healthy population when it gets into wounds etc. that said i nurse cancer patients every day who have poor immune syatems and have no ill effets of the MRSA that they carry. Most of the time it lives in people noses without us being Any the wiser. Your kids are at no greater risk due to there contact with your grandmother. Please dont getb freked out about this one and i hope your grandmother is Doing better soon. Hope that helps. Hugs.
Fiona

Totaly agree If your worried sunlight and anti bacterial rinse in your wash will help. Also hand washing regularly is also a really good way to avoid the bacteria

[Kristie]

Going to do that from now on , well they have to gown and glove up etc at hospy and she been isolated as of today but will get mum to wash all her clothing etc before touching kids etc migth sound OTT *blush*

Thanks again

[fizz]

Yep, the gloves gowns and iso is all totally normal for anyone found to be colonised with MRSA but completly freeks people out, so i can completly understand why your worried. Hand washing is really the key though. Sounds like your ontop of it though, so i hope you will sleep tonight. :-)

[~karen~]

don't go crazy with anti bacterials 'though - this helped lead to the resistance of this and other super bugs
i concur completely - handwashing is the key - it's why nurses learn to do it very early on, it's why when we are working (i'm not atm) our hands are usually pretty poor
hugs
and yes it does sound like you'll sleep better now - which is fantastic