MRSA Do not mess with it.

[TMC50]

Also Stay out of the heat as much as possible...

I like Matt, got it above my right knee... Had a benifit for a close family friend and I was doing the cooking so I was by the pit the whole time.... ended up getting really light headed and when I looked at my leg, it was fully swollen... GF rushed me to the hospital and got it cut out and took forever to fully heal..... Let me tell you, when he put that long Q-tip in the hole and i could see it near my inner thigh, I about threw up.

[Tubby]

I can feel it!!! It's like finding a flea on the dog or a tick after you've been in the field. You can just feel them crawling all over you.

Predicting a total meltdown in Springtown this evening...

[mhbaseball]

Also Stay out of the heat as much as possible...

I like Matt, got it above my right knee... Had a benifit for a close family friend and I was doing the cooking so I was by the pit the whole time.... ended up getting really light headed and when I looked at my leg, it was fully swollen... GF rushed me to the hospital and got it cut out and took forever to fully heal..... Let me tell you, when he put that long Q-tip in the hole and i could see it near my inner thigh, I about threw up.

Yes it is nasty. Especially once you get it, the heat will wear you out alot quicker.

Also, when you get it put hot compresses on it to help it drain.

My favorite part was once it was about gone and the pain went away, I loved getting the core of it out. It looks like solid yellow snot but it is physically hard to the touch.....I am weird

[TXZiggy]

Predicting a total meltdown in Springtown this evening...

[Bill]

MRSA is a genetic adaption by the Staph organism that made it immune to the most efective antibiotics used to treat Staph, Methicillen was the antibiotic hence methicillen- resistant.

You can get it anywhere, but hospitals are a common place. More people die of hospital acquired infections every year than motor vehicle fatalities and gunshot wounds, combined.

Nasty, nasty stuff. I sold to hospital bacteriology labs in the early 1980s, and they knew about it then, and that it would become a bigger problem in the future. Here we are 30 years later and it's a major problem.

[kashmoney]

When I worked in the jail that stuff ran wild from inmate to inmate.

It was a new thing we were learning about then and it scared the crap out of us.

It's nasty! I have seen it firsthand!

[Horn chaser]

I have had it multiple times myself and it is definitely not fun. Hopefully I am done getting them but I doubt it.

[Cottonfish]

Sorry, guys, no pics. Got a case of CA (community acquired, as opposed to HA hospital acquired) MRSA on the inside of my thigh in the crotchal area from a bowfishing trip to Anahuac in fall '07. You see, it was hot and I was sweating, and scratched the inside of my leg.........apparently breaking the skin and allowing staph bacteria to create a big abcess that built for the whole week after I got home. ETA - MRSA was in the bay water.....and, therefore, on my hands......

It actually ruptured, and I spent 4 days in the hospital on IV Vancomyacin after they cut into and drained the abcess. Didn't know at the time how close I came to a blood infection that could have meant game over for old Stu. Or that the Vanc was the only antibiotic treatment they had that might work. Fortunately I responded to treatment and am still here. Had to go through the whole packing the empty abcess hole with Neosporin-soaked gause strips for several weeks while it healed inside-out. Suffice it to say I have no modesty left due to the location of the abcess, every health professional involved from diagnosis to surgery to recovery to wound care has seen my underpinnings.

I got re-infected at one of the bandage tape sites several days later, had a surface MRSA infection. Doc had me bathe head to toe for a week in Phisohex, and also had to swab my nasal cavities with an anti-biotic. Said I was "colonized" with the bacteria (everyone has staph bacteria in their nose, apparently I was nursing a compromised immune system without my knowlege........was diagnosed with Type II Diabetes a little over a year later).

It's a frightening experience, and still have to be careful with personal hygiene to prevent family from picking it up (separate shower, wash clothes in hot water, clean all surfaces with bleach-based cleaner). Once you get it, you are significantly more suceptible to re-infection in the future.....although I've never had to experience another outbreak. You MUST disclose past infection to all health-care workers, so they can take precautions against exposure. While in the hospital, my room was MRSA quarantined........everyone had to wear gown and gloves to come in.

My Diabetes is now well under control, and I'm returning to Anahuac for a bowfishing trip in August for the first time since that fateful trip in '07. We'll see...............

Stu

[Uncle Saggy]

That's what I wanted to know too.

DO NOT Google MRSA images.

Wish I took your advice!!!!! Yup, I googled it

[keep]

Predicting a total meltdown in Springtown this evening...

Nope, not here I just washed off. (some spots better than others)

[Smart]

Brother got it after he returned from Iraq. He dodge bullets and RPGs for a year and comes back to the States and almost dies from this MSRA. It was bad.

We thought it was a brown recluse bite at first. I hope to never have to experience that nasty stuff.

[baitcaster2009]

had it twice......it sucked sitting in the stand with a volcano on my knee!

[Tubby]

Nope, not here I just washed off. (some spots better than others)

TMI!!!

[timbobowhunter]

OMG

[Jaspro]

I have had it 3 times. Bi-cep, back of my neck and on my calf. I drained the one on the back of my neck and bi-cep without going to the doctor. The one on my calf finally got to hurting so badly I could barely walk. I could never get anything out of it and wound up going to the dr. to get some relief. One of the most painful experiences I have ever had.