New Therapies for MRSA Infections sorely needed. Methicillin Resistant Staphlococcus Aureus

[opihimoimoi]

is a skin disease becoming widespread

Series skin disease resistant to prevailing meds not working so well.

See your doc soon if red rashes/sores appear..they will spread....

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/ar_MRSA.html

Link

[Warren Stupidity]

1. "sorely needed" - you should be punished for that. nt

[opihimoimoi]

2. LOL.....I noes...its so apt tho.....:o)

[Warpy]

3. Bacitracin/Neomycin

still works on superficial lesions. Whenever the skin adjacent to a cut or scrape gets red and warm, it's time to use antibacterial ointment on it. The ointment will stop it from getting worse and allow you to heal.

I worked with MRSA patients for 25 years and that's the policy I used for any break in the skin. It worked.

The problem is that these ointments are topicals and good only for small things. Once a MRSA infection has taken hold and started to spread, it's time for hospitalization and IV Vancomycin for a few weeks. Once you've been colonized with MRSA, you're never going to be completely rid of it, although healthy people can generally fight it off well enough in most cases not to be troubled by it. Just let your doc know before you have any surgery.

Keep triple antibiotic ointment in your house at all times. Use it whenever even a paper cut shows signs of inflammation. This is your first line of defense against MRSA and it's a good one.

[opihimoimoi]

4. Thank you...I been aware of lesions onmy arm for months...my dertmatologist

never once mentioned this malady

Only last week my wife finds an article re this

Since then, I replaced my treatment with agressive use of alcohol and topiocals you mentioned

The redness is almost gone...the small but deep boils are almost subdued

The spreading is also minimized...I can sleep without too much itching

I hope they find a CURE SOON...

[Warpy]

5. Get those puppies cultured

If it's MRSA, you also want to make sure you're not spreading it around.

[opihimoimoi]

6. on my asap list....appt w derma man manyana...thanks again

[Maru Kitteh]

7. maggot therapy is showing real promise.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070503094447.htm

Of course we do have Vancomycin - but because we have Vancomycin we also have Vancomycin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus as well.

Unfortunately, experience shows us that as we develop new drugs to combat strains of S. aureus gone rogue, they quickly evolve to give us the middle finger.

Another area I would like to see more enthusiastically explored is bacteriophage therapy.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC90351/




Kind of cool looking! Like spaceships that land on your bacteria and blow them up.

[opihimoimoi]

10. The Field of Medical Science/Research is speeding up due to pressures

and inquisitiveness....including investments....

Sooner the better

Lets hope adequate funding is realized asap

[Maru Kitteh]

11. Hey! I'm on board! It's kinda humbling to find ourselves with maggots as the answer

once again. I mean gee - we were so proud of ourselves we even declared VICTORY in the WAR against infectious disease!

Whooops!

[opihimoimoi]

12. Great Strides but Hold the Cigars...much to do...much to do

[JCMach1]

8. When my daughter was 5 she caught Staphlococcus scalded skin syndrome

This bacteria can be very frightening. I watched on her arm literally burn and start peeling off within the space of a few minutes.

It covered her body and she had to be treated like a 2nd degree burn victim. Thankfully she recovered without blindness, or even any scarring from it.

[opihimoimoi]

9. Cutting edge Treatments has its successes...she was fortunate to recieve

teatments only a few years ago was N/A.....

A full recovery...better yet...

[Hubert Flottz]

13. K&R

Get well soon you will be needed on the wall this fall.....that is all......

Bottle up those microcritters to bombard the freepers with.(dip spears in)

[Cetacea]

14. MRSA can kill you in twenty-four hours, and it's killed more than AIDS

Some 17,000 people have died from MRSA since the mid-nineties and in the past few years there have been numerous school closings as it moves out of the hospitals and into communities (the new form is called CA-MRSA, or , Community Acquired MRSA.

If you get a large, painful boil you should seek medical attention asap. If the infection leaves the boil it can travel through your blood stream and go right for the heart and lungs in a matter of hours...

[ProfessorGAC]

15. My Wife Got Infected With It

It got into the bone near her knuckles. She was on VANC twice a day for 7 weeks, because it's so hard to effectively treat a bone infection.

We did it at home, so at least she wasn't in the hospital for that whole time, but she was in there a few days until they figured out what it was.

It must have been on the surface of her skin, and a cat scratch started the whole thing.

Don't delay, opi.
GAC

[LWolf]

16. My oldest son had MRSA in December.

3 kinds of antibiotics before it was finally defeated.

[depakid]

17. Aussies helping out with that:

Australian scientists are developing a potential "blockbuster" vaccine that could protect against golden staph, a leading source of infection in the world's hospitals.

A major human trial is now getting under way, and more than 400 healthy volunteers are sought across the country to test how their bodies respond to the prototype vaccine.

Dr Peter Richmond said the bacteria, otherwise named Staphylococcus aureus, was posing a rising challenge to health authorities as antibiotic-resistant strains were now commonplace in hospitals and health care facilities.

There were was also signs these superbug variants were circulating in the community, he said, and a vaccine that could prevent serious infections would help to save lives the world over.

"This is the first time (the prototype vaccine) has been used in man," Perth-based Dr Richmond also told AAP on Wednesday.

"What we'll hopefully find out is what sort of boost to immunity the vaccine gives and whether or not it could stop you carrying this bug."

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/aussies-to-test-golden-staph-vaccine-20100225-p3sp.html