Pray for my relative

[Prixie]

I just found out that my relative is suffering from staph infection. I research about this and it basically says that is a common infection from many people. Most people have it and it can cure by itself. It just depend on what kind of level of infection it is. Well my relatives is basically have swelling, painful to touch and is red. I was reading too that if it goes through the bloodstream it can cause life threatening. He have 2 surgery done so far and his culture test just came resulting that he have infection on the bloodstream.


Dr just announced that he might have to stay in hospital for 2 months. Depending on how the treatment goes!



Does anyone know anything about this or have any experience about this?


( Set all joke aside please!)

[WHOADY4SHOADY]

No, sorry bro.

[Theatrix]

I cut my finger off while woodworking and it was put back on. The hospital didn't clean it well enough and I developed a staff infection. They sent a nurse out to put an IV in my arm and I had to inject antibiotics dailey for a month. It's a pain because you have to first flush it with something, then the anti and then flush again. Three syringes a day. They told me the same thing about hospital stay because the infection can go to your heart. But that's worst case. Check into a home nurse coming out to set up.

[Prixie]

I cut my finger off while woodworking and it was put back on. The hospital didn't clean it well enough and I developed a staff infection. They sent a nurse out to put an IV in my arm and I had to inject antibiotics dailey for a month. It's a pain because you have to first flush it with something, then the anti and then flush again. Three syringes a day. They told me the same thing about hospital stay because the infection can go to your heart. But that's worst case. Check into a home nurse coming out to set up.

yeah the Infection Dr specialist just set up a cardiac test , Hopefully the result would be normal. I dont know if the Dr. mention what kind of staph infection it is but she did state that is infection on the bloodstream. The weird thing is he had developed another abcess when he was administered in the hospital and is near where the IV has been put. That one has been cut out. Instead of draining of they have to cut it out.This is just too depressing!


Right now he's in clindamycin ( cleocin), dextrose and diladin ( every 4 hrs) for pain.I believe they just change his antiobitic to something stronger. I just hope that everything went well and things get resolved.

Yeah they have to flush first with the saline water then the antibiotic then the saline water again.

[Tock]

From what I've read, there are a few types of Staph (short for stapholococcus) bacteria. One type is farily common (about 30% of people have it on their skin), and fortunately, it isn't much of a problem. Then there's the Stapholococcus Aurealis (dunno if I've got the spelling right, but it's close), and there are two varieties of that (1) MRSA resistant and (2) non-MRSA resistant. If you have the MRSA resistant bacteria, well, you're SOL because that's the variety that is resistant to pennicilin and other anti-biotics.

Seems that bacteria have been becoming more and more resistant to the medicine we've used to fight them, and the pharmaceutical companies have been working on other drugs instead of new anti-biotics because the other drugs are much more profitable. So until they can charge big bucks for your next dose of pennicillin or whatever, we're all at the mercy of what those little buggers can do to us.

-Tock

[Prixie]

I just found the antibiotics that they upgrade is vancomycin.


Reading this though scares me: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/antibiotics/FL00075