Comments on: Staph (Staff) Skin Infections Pictures

By: Jan Modric

Jan Modric — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:15:00 +0000

Kevin,

are you wearing a shirt with short sleeves at school? It would be possible to contract staph from a desk using by someone else having staph infection..also from sport equipment during gym…

On the other hand, you my be autoinfecting yourself, since staph can be easily spread from one body part to another by hands or clothes. Another possibility is that you carry staphylococci bacteria in your nose and spread them on the skin with hands after wiping the nose…In this case doctor shoud tell you, if applying an antibiotic cream to the nose would help.

By: Kevin Hardbarger

Kevin Hardbarger — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:54:50 +0000

I have been battling a staph infection for going on two months. I was digonsed in Feburary or March of this year with it and then I was fine all summer. I was constantly getting scratched and it never became staph. Then about a week after I started back in school I noticed little red bumps on my lower right arm. I went to the wellness clinic at school and they told me it was staph infection and covered it with bandages and neosporin and prescribed my bactrin cream and an oral antibiotic and then I got that cleared up after about two weeks and then I got one on my left arm and I was out of oral antibotic but I used the cream they gave me. It cleared up to. Then I got two more on the opposite arm and I used the cream. I think the one healed up but I can’t get the other one healed up.

Could someone tell me why I keep getting them when only I go back to school

By: Jan Modric

Jan Modric — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:46:13 +0000

To ngaynor6.

Skin stapf infection is often contracted from affected person’s own skin, since some people are staph carriers. Facial infection could arise from staphyloccoci in the nose. Bactrim or mupirocin can be used on the face and also on the mucosa in the nose. She should use disposable napkins to wipe her nose to prevent constant re-infection.

She should also think about other possible causes. Staph bacteria can be transmitted by towels, sport equipment, computer keyboards from other infected persons. She should not use any makeup or other facial creams…Severe physical or psychical stress or chronic illness can lower immunity and allow staph bacteria to thrive on the skin.

By: ngaynor6

ngaynor6 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:55:40 +0000

My wife recently had a staff infection on her leg and was given Backtrim and three months later she has one on her face can the infection still be in her body and what doctor s she would see hopefully not a M.D can they test her blood or what is the testing process
Thank you

By: Jan Modric

Jan Modric — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:00:55 +0000

Kitaly,

take your daughter back to the doctor promptly. Doctor should determine exact type of bacteria by taking sample of her skin rash and maybe nasal secretion. On basis of the obtained results, doctor can prescribe exact antibiotics.

By: kitaly21

kitaly21 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:50:15 +0000

my daughter is 3yrs old and has been diagnosed with folliculitis/staph. They put her on 2 HEAVY antibiotics and muprocin in her nose. It went away for a while and now it’s back…. worse. I am at my wits end, frustrated with seeing her suffer. What else do I do!!?

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