Have staph infections in two places, one on my stomach and one on my right elbow... This is NOT fun...

does not sound like fun. do you know how you got the infections?

Ya just had to go there, huh, grandpa....just had to.

bummer

Hope it's not MSRA.

That would be MRSA. I hope it's not MRSA too. I have met folks who are being treated with radiation for it, as a last resort.

I wonder if maggot therapy would work.

I'm surprised you did not advise to just have it aborted.

Excuse me, Did I say something wrong?

Maggots are used in in soft tissues that won't heal, and started being used when antibiotics promoted the occurrence of resistant bacteria. Available in the US by prescription only.

Well I am sorry sir, I apologize sincerely. I assumed it was some angry remark to my post but I see it is an actual medical therapy. Funny how we get preconceived ideas about each others comments or maybe it's sad rather than funny. Not sure which. Either way I apologize.

hope you get better

maggots only eat the dead flesh and will clean out a wound better and cleaner that humans can.

I, too, hope it is not MRSA. A friend's mother was infected with MRSA when she received a pacemaker. Of course with it infecting the heart tissue there was no hope.

Maggots are used and it is a bonafide procedure for cleaning out infected tissue in certain areas. I just don't think I could handle letting the varmits feed off my tissue. *shudder*

still don't know what the hell I said that was wrong, redfin
I googled staff infections and mrsa
Redfin, nothing I said was offensive.
So what is your implication about not going there?

Grandpa: redfins comment was made in a perverted and jestful manner

Wendi: Hope you get better soon

Maggots are our friends....

TFP

Whatever, doesnt really matter one way or the other

Get well soon, Miss Independent.

We used to use maggots when we de-horned our steers. We would sear the flesh and turn them loose for the flies to get to them. In about a week we would pour hydrogen peroxide all over it and voilla....clean as a whistle.

its Ok grandpa..it was the perverted part you didn't get,
but for SOME reason ,most of the rest of us did..

Wrong treatment for MRSA although it could work at debridement of the wound ... if the bacteria stopped eating.

This (http://www.the-thieves-oil.com/) might be a better alternative therapy!


Right now the treatment is generally treatment with the antibiotic Vancomycin.

45% of the general population are carriers for the Methicillin Resistant strain of Staphlococcus Aureus (MRSA). It becomes opportunistic if the body's defenses get weakened somehow. It is getting more virulent though as are most bacterias with societal misuse of antibiotics.

Evolution in action.

Get well soon Miss I.

It matters to me. Dang it, I am just as thoroughly perverted as anyone else on the OT and I did not get it either.

Miss I I hope you will get better.

Hope you get better soon!!!

doctors over prescribing antibiotics is evolution? there you go stretching again!

however, maggots are a very good tool in removing decomposing tissue.

Antibiotics are a form of selection pressure. Ditto for insecticides or herbicides. It drives organisms down certain pathways.

so the unnatural introduction of antibiotics and chemicals by man is also part of evolution?

Correct...The antibiotic penicillin sends me on a path to the grave...

Of course it is.

Uh, excuse us for a minute Miss I. Your problem can wait, we have to solve the evolution question first.

problem solved, didnt mean to highjack the thread, i was just interested in TGs thoughs about unnatural introduction in evolution.

Don't be hung up on the term "unnatural". Antibiotics, insecticides, herbicides all kill organisms, but some are naturally resistant. Who is left to survive and reproduce?

Ditto for killing organisms and reducing their numbers, things like bald eagles, black-footed ferrets, cheetahs, etc. You create a genetic bottleneck which will affect allele frequencies and future generations.

but what about the Irish?

The Irish don't get infections. Infectious germs can't propagate in an alcohol environment.

loves me some Bill O'Riley

ok, i get it, introduction that has an effect on future genetics or creates an irreversable change in population and distribution!

Is this from the same scientists that are telling me to stop eating meat because of cattle flatulence causing global climate change?

You'll get no flatulence from my BBQ. Now my beans????

If cow farts are the problem then shouldn't we eat more cows so there would be less cows and therefore less cow farts?

Now you got me hijacking the thread DA.

Thank you Ron White

Actually I just came up with that myself.

what about buffalo farts?

wouldnt global warming have been going on back in the day when millions of buffalo roamed the plains?

good thing we killed most of them suckers, it might be really hot now!

Buffalo Bill was a hero and an enemy of global warming.

You would enjoy Ron White

what about those pesky water buffalos...they got some blow holes on em

Evolution Proven: this thread went from Miss I getting out of the ER to...........water buffalos.

That's de-evolution.

My reply to grandpa was not perverted. I thought it inappropriate for someone to ask how the infection was gotten. That should be up to Wendi to discuss and not one of us prying souls. Maybe Wendi was wanting some advice or empathy from those on the OT who have had staph infections that's all I meant. Could I have stated it more appropriately - probably - but grandpa could have taken a better route as well.

The thread went off course and I'm sorry if I had anything to do with that, Wendi. But I don't think I did.

You know who went to the you know where but who knows for what.

are you sorry you asked for sympathy Miss I ?

this should never have happened to you

get better soon

Good luck Miss I. Keep us posted.

WOW... just WOW... lol I never expected for it to come down to the buffalo farts... lmfao... I was exposed last week one of my friends was over with their kids, the the very next night had to take one of them to the hospital for a staph infection, but he's recovering great. I'm sure that's most likely where I contracted it. I'm pretty sure it's not MRSA, I've only been on the Bactrim 24 hours and things are already looking a lot better. And I don't mind the hijack I've done it enough myself