Comments on: Local High School Student Dies From MRSA http://www.mrsaquestions.com/local-high-school-student-dies-from-mrsa Your Guide to Symptoms and Treatment Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:25:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: PhagersOnStun http://www.mrsaquestions.com/local-high-school-student-dies-from-mrsa/comment-page-1#comment-325 PhagersOnStun Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:10:41 +0000 http://www.mrsaquestions.com/local-high-school-student-dies-from-mrsa#comment-325 From what I've seen and read, this stuff is spread primarily through sweaty skin-to-skin contact, or on damp wet surfaces or sweaty clothes. This is why most kids getting this in schools are football players or wrestlers - and not the general student body. Because obviously, athletics and the lockerroom contain all of these high-risk factors in combination. Which make them perfect breeding grounds. Ideally, Staph likes skin the most, and secondly stuff that resembles skin and lets it form biofilms. So, it can survive for up to 6 months on skin flakes 6-8 weeks on hard surfaces 5 days on bedding Honestly, cleaning schools is just a quick band-aid. Might as well try to wipe out the common cold... The real solution that we need is a cure. And the only scientific one I've heard of so far for that is phage therapy (http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/bacteriophage_therapy/index.html) - which is widely-used in the Baltics, but not the antibiotic-driven US yet. It has almost a 100% cure rate! The question then is, when will it become widely-available here???????????? How many more kids and athletes must die before we quickly adopt this therapy????? From what I’ve seen and read, this stuff is spread primarily through sweaty skin-to-skin contact, or on damp wet surfaces or sweaty clothes.

This is why most kids getting this in schools are football players or wrestlers – and not the general student body.

Because obviously, athletics and the lockerroom contain all of these high-risk factors in combination. Which make them perfect breeding grounds.

Ideally, Staph likes skin the most, and secondly stuff that resembles skin and lets it form biofilms.

So, it can survive for up to 6 months on skin flakes
6-8 weeks on hard surfaces
5 days on bedding

Honestly, cleaning schools is just a quick band-aid. Might as well try to wipe out the common cold…

The real solution that we need is a cure. And the only scientific one I’ve heard of so far for that is phage therapy (http://tahilla.typepad.com/mrsawatch/bacteriophage_therapy/index.html) – which is widely-used in the Baltics, but not the antibiotic-driven US yet.

It has almost a 100% cure rate! The question then is, when will it become widely-available here???????????? How many more kids and athletes must die before we quickly adopt this therapy?????

]]> By: Dave Roberts http://www.mrsaquestions.com/local-high-school-student-dies-from-mrsa/comment-page-1#comment-326 Dave Roberts Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:40:46 +0000 http://www.mrsaquestions.com/local-high-school-student-dies-from-mrsa#comment-326 Disinfecting the school is largely a cosmetic exercise - the pupils can reinfect it as soon as they return. It does seem deeply unproffesional to send him into the game with that diagnosis already being mentioned. He could infect others in the close contact of the game and agravatte his own skin infection. You may want to ask the school for clarification and assurances about the future Disinfecting the school is largely a cosmetic exercise – the pupils can reinfect it as soon as they return.

It does seem deeply unproffesional to send him into the game with that diagnosis already being mentioned. He could infect others in the close contact of the game and agravatte his own skin infection. You may want to ask the school for clarification and assurances about the future

]]> By: Cindy http://www.mrsaquestions.com/local-high-school-student-dies-from-mrsa/comment-page-1#comment-327 Cindy Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:21:28 +0000 http://www.mrsaquestions.com/local-high-school-student-dies-from-mrsa#comment-327 My granson plays football for Aynor High School in aynor SC. I went to a game on Thursday 10/16/08. His mom and I noticed that his arm had a bandage at his elbow. After the game, he told us that his coach told him that he had a staff infection. I took him to the dr. the next morning and a culture was taken. The dr. treated the injury and bandaged it. he was given Septra also. Mon. the culture came back and it was MRSA. The Dr. changed the anitbiotic and prescibed soaking. What about the school? Why would they send him into a game and shouldn't they disenfect the gym and eq My granson plays football for Aynor High School in aynor SC. I went to a game on Thursday 10/16/08. His mom and I noticed that his arm had a bandage at his elbow. After the game, he told us that his coach told him that he had a staff infection. I took him to the dr. the next morning and a culture was taken. The dr. treated the injury and bandaged it. he was given Septra also. Mon. the culture came back and it was MRSA. The Dr. changed the anitbiotic and prescibed soaking. What about the school? Why would they send him into a game and shouldn’t they disenfect the gym and eq

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