MRSA Symptoms

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA is strain of staphylococcus aureus -- or staph. MRSA is bacterium that infects various parts of the body. Common MRSA symptoms are boils and pimples but there are other serious symptoms that require close medical attention.

Resistant to most antibiotics such as methicillin, penicillin, amoxicillin, oxacillin and many others, MRSA is more difficult to treat. While some antibiotics are still effective against the more serious MRSA ailments, MRSA has the capability to adapt and researchers are finding it hard trying to catch up. Medical experts would sometime refer to MRSA as “super bug”.

Type of symptoms depends on the location of the infection. Most symptoms are mild but when MRSA gets into the body through cuts or other means it can become deadly. It can infect surgical wounds, the lungs, the unitary tracts and the bloodstream. Fortunately spread of MRSA is by physical contact and only about 1% of the population can become carriers.

Common Symptoms

One of the most devastating MRA symptoms is a serious skin problem that spread quickly in the body known as necrotizing fasciitis, but these are very rare. Most often you’ll experience the following symptoms:

• Boil or abscess that is swollen, painful, red and filled with pus.
• If infection is in the lungs expect pneumonia-like symptom like shortness of breath, chills and fever

Since MRSA can infect the bloodstreams and the unitary tracts, it can result to other more incapacitating symptoms. If you are undergoing treatment you have to make sure that the antibiotics you are taking is working. You need to consult you doctor immediately when:

• You are not getting better after three or four days.
• The infection is getting worse
• Your fever is worse or if you have none before you know develop high grade fever

People who are of poor health or have weak immune systems have higher risks of getting MRSA. If you think that your symptoms can be caused by MRSA and you know that your immune system is weak, call your doctor right away. He can recommend for you some useful preventive medication.