04-01-2010, 03:22 AM
This isn't just an island problem albeit the moist warm atmosphere is much more conducive to MRSA than drier climes.
I got this in the mid 90's while working for a florist. It started on my cheek and I thought it was a spider bite also. A pimple like rising but it was hot.
By day two it was weeping like a faucet, but there was no infection line radiating from the open sore. I went directly to the clinic as I didn't have a doctor in town yet.
Well that was a funny doctor's visit. He stood across the room from me over by the sink and faucet. Never touched me nor took a closer look at the ooze running down my face. He wrote a prescription don't remember what it was, but it was a 4 day course of medication I'd never heard of.
Luckily I healed, interesting enough there isn't scar one from this infection. It was the heat of the pimple like bump unlike any other and then the weeping dripping that alarmed me.
It's good to share this information. There seems to be much wider knowledge now of this problem. Hospital many of them are taking nose swabs from all patients being admitted to test for MRSA up front! Yep last I heard 8 out of 10 people are carriers.
Hospitals post in rooms "Did you see your doctor or nurse wash their hands"? If not ask them to wash now! I kid you not!
mella l
NO, really? Assume the best!
I got this in the mid 90's while working for a florist. It started on my cheek and I thought it was a spider bite also. A pimple like rising but it was hot.
By day two it was weeping like a faucet, but there was no infection line radiating from the open sore. I went directly to the clinic as I didn't have a doctor in town yet.
Well that was a funny doctor's visit. He stood across the room from me over by the sink and faucet. Never touched me nor took a closer look at the ooze running down my face. He wrote a prescription don't remember what it was, but it was a 4 day course of medication I'd never heard of.
Luckily I healed, interesting enough there isn't scar one from this infection. It was the heat of the pimple like bump unlike any other and then the weeping dripping that alarmed me.
It's good to share this information. There seems to be much wider knowledge now of this problem. Hospital many of them are taking nose swabs from all patients being admitted to test for MRSA up front! Yep last I heard 8 out of 10 people are carriers.
Hospitals post in rooms "Did you see your doctor or nurse wash their hands"? If not ask them to wash now! I kid you not!
mella l
NO, really? Assume the best!
mella l
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