MRSA

[The Critic]

Wow, I didn't know that you could get infected so easily!

http://www.autocarepronews.com/Article/46610/mrsait_was_just_a__little_scratch.aspx

 

[moribundman]

Bah, it's just necrotizing fasciitis, more commonly known as "flesh-eating bacterial infection." Only cut yourself with sterile implements!

 

[Mr Nice]

Yikes, thats a pretty scary infection.

I am surprised with all the cuts and skinned elbows and knees I got playing sports, biking and working around the house....

I haven't gotten a bad infection.

 

[asiancivicmaniac]

Man I almost threw up when I saw the pictures.

 

[eljefino]

I applaud the author's scientific method in taking pictures before things really blew up.

MRSA is one of those things you get in the hospital... a lot.

 

[moribundman]

It can get a lot worse than a festering hole.

Warning, Spoiler:

 

[crinkles]

that can't be real mori. they must have been dead by then.

 

[Shannow]

My father donated blood some years ago, and the following morning, had a stiff elbow, that became really painful during the day.

Following day his elbow was red and badly swollen. Went to the quack, who freaked and sent him to casualty.

By the time he got to casualty, there were read and grey lines running up and down his arm a few inches, radiating from the red centre of his inside elbow.

They had to feed an antibiotic drip directly into the elbow (apparently hurt like nothing else), and systemic antibiotics as well.

7 days in hospital and no work for 2 weeks, hurt him badly as a self employed contractor.

Had Oz' foremost infection specialist treating him, who advised him that the only way he could have got an infection where he got it was for it to have been put there.

He approached the Red Cross re compensation. They responded with "sue us, you'll go broke before we do".

 

[moribundman]

There's an interesting read and link within here.

 

[jldcol]

Nosocomial, look it up. One of the best places to get a REAL infection is a hospital or the like. Bacteria make the freelove hippies of the 60's look like quakers when it comes to swapping DNA, and resistance to antibiotics is one of the top 10. If certain thing become airborne transmissible and crossover to humans, we got real problems. just a matter of time really. Read up on phages, our new buddies for a while, until they decide to start eating us.

 

[oilyriser]

I wonder where that car, on which the guy got scratched, had been. The "super" part of this bug is how it evaded the guy's immune system.

 

[Shannow]

oilyriser, I agree with you on that part. Antibiotics are there for when your body hasn't controlled the bug in the first place.

The resistance of the bug to antibiotics isn't the primary cause of the infection.

 

[Kestas]

I think I'll go wash my hands right now.

 

[NJC]

I think I'll skip this thread entirely.

 

[Mr Nice]

I had Impetigo about 4 times when I was a kid, probably from sports and outdoor activities.

I could barely look at the photos of that guy's leg in the link that Moribundman posted. Did you guys see all the pictures ?
OMG

 

[Samilcar]

Originally Posted By: moribundman
There's an interesting read and link within here.


"To be certain that all of the bacteria was gone, the flesh was removed from the top of my toes to the top of my left hip and it was discussed whether my foot should be amputated or fused at a 90º angle, because there was literally nothing left between my ankle and Achilles' tendon."

All from a simple soccer kick to the ankle. Somebody hold me.

 

[1sttruck]

Lots of bad bugs. I've heard of people developing symptoms with a temperature, a day later the temperature is gone, and the next they're dead due to septicemia; the bug overwhelmed the immune system which stopped the temperature. There's a brain eating bug that lives on the bottom of ponds in the west. Hanta virus is in rodent droppings in the west. A kind of rare, potentially lethal tropical fungus has established itself in Vancouver BC, and cases are being south along the I5 corridor. Lyme disease is an east coast scourge that is spreading this way (west coast). Plague is endemic in ground squirrels and people die from it from time to time. There are more cases of drug resistant TB showing up, along with other bugs like staph (mycobacteria are interesting as they're responsible for leprosy as well as TB). Meningitis pops up from time time in schools, and a coworker and his family had whooping cough a few years back. And then there's...

 

[Gary Allan]

There have been predictions that many of us can expire from one very long controlled infection.

 

[Kruse]

Originally Posted By: 1sttruck
Lots of bad bugs. I've heard of people developing symptoms with a temperature, a day later the temperature is gone, and the next they're dead due to septicemia; the bug overwhelmed the immune system which stopped the temperature. There's a brain eating bug that lives on the bottom of ponds in the west. Hanta virus is in rodent droppings in the west. A kind of rare, potentially lethal tropical fungus has established itself in Vancouver BC, and cases are being south along the I5 corridor. Lyme disease is an east coast scourge that is spreading this way (west coast). Plague is endemic in ground squirrels and people die from it from time to time. There are more cases of drug resistant TB showing up, along with other bugs like staph (mycobacteria are interesting as they're responsible for leprosy as well as TB). Meningitis pops up from time time in schools, and a coworker and his family had whooping cough a few years back. And then there's...




A couple of weeks ago we stayed in a motel with a swimming pool. I think there was more chlorine in the pool than there was water. My kid had a severe chlorine reaction that night all over his body. Anyway, I think I now know why they put so much chlorine in there.

 

[1sttruck]

"I think there was more chlorine in the pool than there was water."

In a Navy SEAL fitness handbook that I have they talk about allergic reactions to 'chlorinated hydrocarbons' from so much pool time. I spent lots of time in military base pools as a kid, I can remember everyone having to get out until it tested ok after additional treatments. Sometimes a 'baby ruth' would be found floating in the water and we'd have to stay out longer. Swimming pools are basically big toilets, and here in the Pacific NW some lakes are too due to little kids being allowed in and [censored] in the water.

Cruise ships seem to be the worst. If you let a bug with a low dose / high infection rate like norovirus on the ship, the bug spreads like wildfire. It's a decent indicator that cruise ships are just big floating toilets, evidently because people don't wash their hands after taking a dump.