MRSA Articles
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Why Making MRSA Testing Mandatory Might Improve Public Health - The Veterans Health Administration hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania checks a nasal swab for MRSA. Patients that test positive for the bacteria are then placed in isolation for their stay.
What You Need To Know About Your Dog and MRSA - The UK-based Bella Moss Foundation is striving to inform dog owners of the risk to their pets. The founder, Jill Moss, started the foundation after she lost her beloved dog Bella to the disease.
What Athletes Need to Know About MRSA - Bacteria infections among athletes are not rare, though they can make it difficult to perform your best. In many cases, bacterial infections can be treated with antibiotics like penicillin, amoxicillin, methicillin, and oxacillin.
Watching for Staph Infections in Your Kids - Staph infections can be common in children, who spend a lot of time in close proximity to each other and are more prone to cuts and scrapes. At the same time, infections caused by staph bacteria can cause serious side effects in children and even death.
Understanding MRSA - There has been plenty in the news lately about MRSA. MRSA is Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Treatment of Staph Infections - Keeping the area clean is an important part of curing staph infections. Antibiotic soaps and warm, moist compresses a few times of day can help to clean the wound out.
Treating MRSA Outside of the Hospital - The same as the hospital, the home caregiver has two concerns: protecting themselves from contracting the disease and protecting other people and patients that they come in contact with from contracting the disease as well. The main way to prevent the transmission of MRSA bacteria is with good hygiene.
The MRSA Superbug - NewsTarget. com ran an article on January 27, 2007 about a super bug that kills healthy young adults in 24 hours.
The Differences in MRSA - First, you will often hear two terms associated for patients with MRSA: colonization and infection. However, there is a major difference between the two types of patients.
The Connection between Pets, Essential Oils, and MRSA - However, this is not always true. In fact, many of our pets are continuing to get sick.
The Antibiotics Link to MRSA - MRSA, often termed as the “hospital super bug” is thought to have come about due to the overuse of penicillin and other antibiotics. This caused the bug to continue to mutate, making it very difficult to treat or cure.
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