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Originally Posted by Fawn Liebowitz
I am currently taking vancomycin intravenously due to an MRSA infection. It's good that your pediatrician was cautious - it is, indeed, a dangerous and sometimes fatal infection. The times (yes...more than once) I have had it, I never exhibited any external symptoms, but I have gotten so violently ill so quickly that I can't imagine anyone letting it go untreated long enough for it to progress enough to affect the heart, bones or other organs.
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Originally Posted by Fawn Liebowitz
The deadly part comes into play when the infection reaches the bloodstream, heart muscle/other organ or bone. According to my doctor, staph is everywhere, on everyone. At my dialysis clinic, they do an annual nose swab because it is apparently common for it to be in the nasal passages.
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Wow!!!
Not to be funny, but how are you NOT in a bubble? Seriously? Please take care of yourself, because this MRSA isht is not funny.