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Mom (82) went in for a skin biopsy around April 10. They took a plug (no cancer) but she immediately developed a MRSA infection which has been getting worse.
Just prescribed a 7 day course of Bactrim.
Seems like an appropriate medicine, but I don’t know.
Any of you deal with this, and should she be pushing for some other treatment, andnif Bactrim is the answer when did you see it begin to resolve your infection?
Thanks, and she’s pissed. Told her to see a different doctor, but she said every doctor in town is in the same practice.
 
My mom is 90, living in a nice facility, and has fallen a few times. Had skin cuts that required stitches and she developed MRSA both times. I don’t know if this is just endemic to the aged, or what. I don’t have any advice on treatment. I think that ailment is more common than we would like.

A wound care specialist managed it.
 
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A few of my gym-going friends have had it. Bactrim or doxy for the ones that were sent home. I'm not sure there's anything stronger short of keeping you in the hospital on IV antibiotics, which happened to one of the unlucky ones.
 
Bactrim DS (double strength) 800-160mg 1 tab twice a day for 7 to 10 days is normally what I see prescribed for something like that.

It can take a few days before you start to see it having an effect.

At the very least though, while she’s on it the infection should not be getting worse. If she has a fever or if it continues to swell up or anything out of the ordinary after she’s started the antibiotics, I would call the doc back and let him/her know.
 
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The only thing I will say is that you don’t develop MRSA. You are infected with it.

It is spread through lack of cleanliness protocols (or not following those protocols).

It pisses me off to no end that this continues to happen.
 
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25-30% of people already have staphylococcus on their skin. 2% are mrsa carriers.
I just about lost my leg and my life over mrsa.

I spent 8 years of my life fighting MRSA. 22 months on Iv vancomycin and daptomycin and 4800mg of Bactrim ds for nearly 6 years. And 80+ trips to the cdc in Atlanta.

At her age mrsa can be much worse very quickly. If she doesn't see improvement with the course of treatment I'd be getting her to an infectious disease Dr very quickly.
 
GymB said:
Mom (82) went in for a skin biopsy around April 10. They took a plug (no cancer) but she immediately developed a MRSA infection which has been getting worse.
Just prescribed a 7 day course of Bactrim.
Seems like an appropriate medicine, but I don’t know.
Any of you deal with this, and should she be pushing for some other treatment, andnif Bactrim is the answer when did you see it begin to resolve your infection?
Thanks, and she’s pissed. Told her to see a different doctor, but she said every doctor in town is in the same practice.
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Im a wound care nurse at Ft.Bragg and see MRSA almost daily,

We usually use SEPTRA or CLINDAMIACIN,(this is also dependent on the wound culture )and if the wound is open or post abscess drainage I pack/dress my wounds with a SILVER DRESSING (AQUACELL AG-or others) Daily..

Then after their wound is healed I decolonize the patient, 3 days of a daily wash with hibiclens..

SDIVER2006
 
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SDIVER2006 said:
Im a wound care nurse at Ft.Bragg and see MRSA almost daily,

We usually use SEPTRA or CLINDAMIACIN,(this is also dependent on the wound culture )and if the wound is open or post abscess drainage I pack/dress my wounds with a SILVER DRESSING (AQUACELL AG-or others) Daily..

Then after their wound is healed I decolonize the patient, 3 days of a daily wash with hibiclens..

SDIVER2006
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The other thing to note is that you cannot get an accurate CULTURE result if you are on Antibiotics..
 
SDIVER2006 said:
The other thing to note is that you cannot get an accurate CULTURE result if you are on Antibiotics..
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Thanks!
Bactrim is the same as Septra, so seems she’s on the right path.
She was on doxycycline for 14 days (before that they did a swab and cultured Staphyloccoccus lugdunensis) then did a scrape and cultured MRSA / Staphyloccoccus aureus. Are you saying that the scrape culture might not be accurate, or that once she starts the Bactrim/Septra that subsequent cultures are pointless and just keep treating until it’s fully healed?

She’s also applying mupirocin ointment USP 2%. I’ll have her ask her doctor about using both it and Aqucel AG Advantage, but what’s your opinion?

Thanks again, doctor is all “you didn’t get it here” and “not a big deal” which pisses me off. She’s supposed to be going back to them for basal cell removal on her scalp, I’m going to find her somewhere else.
 
LeeMajors said:
25-30% of people already have staphylococcus on their skin. 2% are mrsa carriers.
I just about lost my leg and my life over mrsa.

I spent 8 years of my life fighting MRSA. 22 months on Iv vancomycin and daptomycin and 4800mg of Bactrim ds for nearly 6 years. And 80+ trips to the cdc in Atlanta.

At her age mrsa can be much worse very quickly. If she doesn't see improvement with the course of treatment I'd be getting her to an infectious disease Dr very quickly.
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Did the vancomycin wreck your eardrums?
 
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