can you die from mrsa?

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• RGVall...

  
  
  
  To be honest, the answer is "yes, you can die from MRSA." It has to be treated quickly and aggressively with (usually) Vancomycin, one of (if not the only) antibiotics that is currently effective in treating MRSA. I most likely caught this nasty bug when I they unsuccessfully attempted to insert my AICD (pacemaker/defibrillator combo). So they had to move my port from left side to right side and reattempt thru another surgery to insert the AICD on the left. That was three mini-surgeries in just one month! It evidently colonizes in my nares (nostrils/nose/sinuses) and I am a carrier. However, I am more than a carrier. Now this "SUPER BUG" (another name for it) has made me its victim. I have had numerous long hospitalizations for treatment of sepsis (blood infection) and skin infections. Right now, my fever is beginning to go up and down, but mostly up and I have a rash on my legs, arms, and breast. So I most likely have another active infection, which means I need more Vanco. It is such a powerful drug that it can cause kidney failure. They run blood tests to see the level of Vanco in my blood many times over the course of a treatment, and the ideal treatment time is 30 days of 1 Gram of Vancomycin a day. Hate it as it means in-patient and nursing home after I run out of hospital days -Medicare rule :( It is too dangerous to be given at home or I would opt for that. Rather be at home with home health nurse giving it every day thru my port (thank God for a port!). I have heard recently that Vanco should be given over several hours if a person if also on Lasix as the Lasix pushes it out too quickly such as the usual twenty minutes. But there is better absorption and healing power from it if given over several hours. Anyone hear about this news??
  
  This rash is driving me nuts .. it itches.. and looks just like little scabs once they are scratched. Sorry, hard not to...
  
  Anyone here that has experience with MRSA, please share it! A friend of mine in Calif. got it and she almost died when she got empyema in her lungs. They had to surgically remove the infection thru scraping and suction. She was in ICU a week. She has recovered.
  
  People like me, with low immunity/poor immune systems, and the elderly and very young can easily succumb to MRSA infections if left untreated or treated too late in the game.

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• brwnis65

  
  
  
  mayoclinic.com/health/mrsa/DS00735
  www.webmd.com/.../understanding-mrsa-methicillin-res...
  
  MRSA infection is caused by Staphylococcus aureus bacteria — often called "staph." MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. It's a strain of staph that's resistant to the broad-spectrum antibiotics commonly used to treat it. Though most MRSA infections aren't serious, some can be life-threatening.Staph infections, including MRSA, occur most frequently among persons in hospitals and healthcare facilities (such as nursing homes and dialysis centers) who have weakened immune systems.

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• MrBig

  
  
  
  the MRSA survival rates are not very good ones...by definition it requires a special kind of antibiotic drug to control it and if there isn't any - the infection may spread and cause sepsis (blood poisoning).

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