mrsa can it reacure years later

Tweety, BSN, RN · Dec 11, 2004

Staph can set up colonies in the body and remain. In fact quite a few of us probably have those colonies, I'm sure I do. It is indeed possible that he could have a MRSA infection again. It's worth checking into.

ageless · Dec 11, 2004

my husband had mrsa 5 years ago and last week he had a tooth out and it is not healing he is in a lot of pain and taking antibiotics and pain killers. I just wanted to know if this could be caused by mrsa still in his body. Thank you.

more probable is that he has what's known as a "dry socket". contact your dentist.

plumrn, BSN, RN · Dec 12, 2004

My sister had the same thing happened. The tooth was pulled, but she still had terrible pain a week later. It was a dry socket. She had to pack it daily. It still wouldn't heal. The dentist then had to go in and clean it out and stitched it close. No more problems.

Megan-Cho · Dec 20, 2004

There's a couple of great medical research pieces going on over seas for staph patients!

http://www.caercoork.com/orsa/news.html

I've also updated my ORSA site, including a BLOG. The BLOG is a great outlet. I highly recommend journaling of some form!

If they cure this today, you will want a record of what it was like for your grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Think of all the people that lived through polio and our kids don't know what the word is! They think it's a game you play in the pool invented by a kid named Marco!

CCU NRS · Dec 20, 2004

Just dropping this lnk to all the threads currently asking for MRSA info. Good Luck

http://www.cdc.gov/search.do?action=search&queryText=MRSA&x=19&y=12