Mrsa - Virginia Beach, VA

Hi J., unfortunately, I have experience with MRSA. My step-son brought it up with him from Florida this summer and my baby caught it. I was pretty ticked to say the least. (every time he comes up he brings some sort of infection that gets the baby sick) Anyways, tell your doctor that you want an oral antibiotic. I can't believe they didn't give you one already. My 1 year old has already been through two rounds, but it was because the pharmacy fouled up the first time and didn't give us enough. As for my step-son, we had to have him soak in a epsom salt bath twice a day for 20 minutes as well as use the antibiotics to draw the infection out of his bumps and dry them up. I also recommend thoroughly scrubbing all of your daughters toys with a strong antibacterial cleaner and wash her sheets and pillow cases with hot water. I also shampooed the areas of the couch and other furniture that my step-son came in contact with before we knew he had it. Once we knew what it was, we had him wear pajama pants to cover his bumps and prevent spreading the infection around. We did this over band-aids on the worst of them. It's double protection. Even with all of that work though, the baby still caught it, I think because we initially thought the bumps were a really bad case of his eczema before they developed heads.

At any rate, go back to your doctor and demand an oral antibiotic if your daughters bumps don't get better. The cream isn't enough, the infection lives inside the mucous membranes and only an oral antibiotic can get rid of it. If it makes you feel better, my little one hasn't had a recurrence of the bumps since finishing his second round of antibiotics. Good Luck!

my girl is a carrier for mrsa and, at 3, has already been in the hospital a handful of times because of it. She has an open, standing prescription so when we see the bump start we get it right away. Also, i understand that your daughter is 3; is she potty trained? the doctors have told us that will help a lot. if you google search "living with mrsa" you'll find a lot of helpful hits. One that i didnt even really think of were to use paper towels instead of hand towels. you just have to be ridiculously careful. make sure you cover any open wounds, etc. i dont know if it will last forever, but if you find a way to stop it, please share! good luck!

Hi. We have had similar issues with MRSA in our family. It started when I gave birth to our daughter, I got MRSA and Ecoli infection where I tore. I had a severe infection and was readmitted after two days home and on IV antibtiotics for 5 days before I could return home. So my MRSA came from the hospital. I have since had about 7 other infections and am getting ready to be tested to see if I am now a carrier before I have our second child in the spring. My daughter has had MRSA now three times. THe first time she got it was a couple of days after she too was in the hospital emergency room. Since she has had the first infection, she has had two more. They can be really painful. So far, we have found the best thing to do for them is HEat, it draws out the infection and makes them drain. She keeps getting them in her diaper area so the best thing I can do for her is stick her in the bath tub and let the warm water help her. She was given antiobiotics orally and also an ointment to put on the sore. I was also told that MRSA can be very difficult to get rid of, it likes to live in warm areas so try putting Neosporin in her nose, armpits and groin area to try and catch where it likes to live. The last infections we have had, that seemed to really help, I hope. we both may be carriers and if that is the case, I think it will be something we have to deal with for the rest of our lives. It is a scary thing but seems to be becoming more common. Unfortunately since I started with it, I had never really heard of til then and now I know of probably 25 to 35 people that have had it, pretty scary I think.

Good luck with your daughter and I hope that you can get rid of it for good and the heat from either a bath or heating pad really is the best way to get them to go away the fastest. If she continues to get them I would ask your doctor about finding out of she is a carrier so you know if she will be dealing with this forever.

i feel for you and your daughter. i haven't gone through this myself, but have had a friend that has. you may want to get a second opinion on the treatment...my friend's child had to have blood work done to determine which antibiotic would successfully treat her child. it was a more in-depth treatment than just the cream. it's also highly contagious through all bodily fluids (saliva, mucus, etc.), so use extra caution around others. also, Johns Hopkins, the CDC and VA Dept. of Health were good resources for my friend. hope your daughter heals quickly.

I practice aromatherapy at home and I always check the web site www.oil-testimonials.com for advise from other oilers. It basically said to use this blend from Young Living called thieves externally, and internally for about a month and it kills the infection. One nurse stated that it normally takes stage iv antibiotics and sometimes that doesn't even help. Thieves is a blend used by thieves during the plague to prevent them from getting it while they collected bodies. It can also be used to clean your house since it has spread, you may want the cleaner too. I'm a distributor and I can send you some wholesale + shipping or you can order it and I'll send you a rebate. www.youngliving.org/amoreyr Look under essential oils, then scroll to blends and then Thieves. Good luck with whatever you decide.

The daughter of one of my husbands co-workers has had several bouts with mrsa. They treated her with bactrim. The Mom and Dad even got it, supposedly from the daughter. I would get a second opinion as I am not sure that a lotion will be enough. The fact that when the bumps come now they hurt tells me that it is getting stronger. Not to scare you but it sounds like it is never really gone and is dormant for a while and then comes back stronger than before. Surprisingly I have heard of lots of kids with it (there were several cases in my daughters 8th grade last year). It can be beaten, it is just hard to do it and find a doctor who is as diligent as you are. Good luck!

I had a breast abcess that turned out to be mrsa and almost everyone in my family has had the bumps you are talking about. Do you mean boils? They can be small and go away on their own or grow larger and develop large rings of reddened skin around them (celulitis) I have had both kinds. You can never get rid of mrsa, but just try to keep her immune system up. Especially when she has a boil make sure she does not eat any sugary or processed foods. Also a compress made of warm ginger tea bags (you can get them from a health food store) really helps draw it out and dry it up if you do it often until it is healing. I know it sounds scary but my dr assured me that it is very common. Just make sure if she ever needs to go on antibiotics you let the dr know she has had a mrsa infection. She may need to be treated with a different antibiotic. I was on three before they realized it was mrsa and put me on the right one. Also if she has bug bites keep them clean. Thats how I first got those awful boils, and they really really do hurt even when they are small and don't look too bad. Hope that helped!

i had bumps. The hospital popped them an gave me antibotics. It is a problem if they dont treat her rite. Did they give her antibotics