MRSA is the abbreviation for methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus and it is an antibiotic resistant staph infection which highly contagious. Controlling a MRSA infection is vital because it is highly contagious and can become life threatening. This is also called the super bug because it is not easily treated with common antibiotics.
Instructions
1. Inspect your body or the body of your child. If you see a pus-swollen boil or pimple, get it checked out by a doctor. If the doctor informs you that it is MRSA, there are steps you need to take to lower the risk of everyone else. The doctor will drain the infection, and cover it. Learn what you can about MRSA and help to prevent the spread of this disease.
2. Change the bandage as directed by the doctor; always use gloves when changing this bandage. Bandages, wrappers and the gloves that you used to change the bandage should be placed in plastic bags and tied. Toss this into the garbage and make sure no animals get into the garbage. Inform the parents of playmates that your child has this infection so that they can educate themselves.
3. Cover your mouth in public with a mask if you have a respiratory or airborne MRSA for public safety. Inform those who come to your home that there is a case of MRSA active in the home.
4. Wear gloves when treating the MRSA infection site within a health care setting, depending on the severity of the infection mask, and a gown is to be used with the gloves to prevent the infection.
5. Wash clothes separately of the MRSA-infected patient, if you have these infections do not share clothes or other personal items with others. If you use a blood pressure cuff or thermometer for a MRSA patient, do not use it for anyone else until you have sanitized it.
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