Mrsa - Mutation Of Staph Causing Dangerous Illness

Doctors are becoming more reluctant to prescribe antibiotics immediately for many conditions

. One of the reasons for this is that the more our bodies and the infections that plague them are exposed to the antibiotics, the more they mutate to become immune or resistant to those medications. Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus is one of the more dangerous occurrences of this phenomenon. MRSA is a form of a staph infection that has become resistant to most antibiotics, especially the beta-lactams (including Methicillin, Amoxicillin, Penicillin, and Oxacillin). At one time, it was found pretty much exclusively in healthcare setting, such as an infection at the surgical site. It still happens there the most often, but now it can be passed from person to person in the community as well.

In fact, MRSA can be contracted by touching an infected object. There is a two percent chance of a person carrying the disease without showing symptoms (as opposed to a twenty-five to thirty percent chance with normal staph). So, typically the infection is passed by skin to skin contact. Occurrences of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus are more concentrated in areas where there is close contact or sharing of objects that might touch the infected area, such as athletic locker rooms, military barracks, nursing homes and dormitories and even grocery stores. Children can be affected too, particularly in hospital nurseries, pediatrician offices, and daycares. Once contracted, the infection can manifest in several different ways.

It usually starts on the skin. If it is a result of a surgical site or injury, the patient might see redness or swelling at the site and feel heat or pain. The infection might also look like pimples, puss-filled boils, carbuncles, or pustules. This dangerous illness can spread to the inside of the body, infecting the bloodstream or attacking the internal organs. When MRSA attacks the lungs, patients can get Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Pneumonia. When people have this form of the disease, they pass it to others not just by skin contact, but also by respiratory methods, such as sneezing.

Patients with Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus can end up in and out of the hospital being exposed to treatments that do not work. They can spend thousands of dollars trying to beat this condition with no results. In addition, each hospital stay exposes more people to MRSA. This dangerous disease infects 2.3 million people and kills 19,000 in the United States each year. More people die from Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus every year than the AIDS virus.

by: Russell Altman

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