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April 4, 2008, 10:23 pm PDT
Thank You
Quote From: amariernHello, I am a baccalaureate-prepared RN and may have some answers to your questions. Many of us carry MRSA in certain parts of our body. When it enters the blood, lungs, and certain parts of our skin, we are concerned.
Regarding your MRSA infection, it sounds as though your particular infection was community-acquired since you make no mention of prior hospitalizations leading up to your infection. You will definitely want to share this information with your healthcare providers before the because you may be at increased risk for hospital-acquired MRSA. Also, your healthcare providers may want to take extra precautions while caring for you so as to not spread any infection should you still carry MRSA. They may test your nares (nostrils) and your rectum for colonization of MRSA since it may still linger in these areas and may have spread from your leg. Should your test come back positive, you will probably be placed in contact isolation and treated accordingly. I just wanted you to know I got your reply. I will note the MRSA infection in all my future medical paperwork, and will tell the doctors.
I am also wondering about the ways MRSA is spread. If it is in your nose, would you only be able to spread it if you touch your nose? So, for example, after I have surgery (to repair a severly degenerated achilles tendon, that will require a tendon transfer & graft-obviosuly not something I want to get infected!!) would wearing gloves & washing hands be all I need to minimze the chance of being reinfected? Or is it that MRSA could be 'in' the body in such a way that I could end up with another MRSA infection even if we took hand washing & glove wearing precatuions? As in do you have to 'touch your nose & then touch an open sore/wound' to get infected? Or does it just lay dormant in the body until another flare up?
Just trying to understand the risks, given that I have already had an MRSA infection.
Thank you for the info...
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