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What Is The Best Treatment For MRSA?

MRSA, (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus), is a form of contagious bacterial infection that is resistant to numerous antibiotics including methicillin, amoxicillin, penicillin, and oxacillin. This resistance makes it challenging to treat. MRSA infection initially starts as a pimple, boil or skin sore before it becomes a serious one. However, in the later phase, it becomes harmful and fatal for individuals.

What Is The Best Treatment For MRSA?

What Is The Best Treatment For MRSA?

In case your doctor diagnoses MRSA problem, he or she will recommend you treatment options based on following major factors-

  • Type and location of your MRSA infection
  • Severity associated with your symptoms
  • Antibiotics, towards which MRSA strain gives good response
  • Medications to Treat Infections

Doctors recommend you certain medications to treat your soft tissue and skin infections, like-

  • Tetracycline drugs, like minocycline
  • Clindamycin
  • Sulfamethoxazole
  • Linezolid and
  • Rifampin

Management of MRSA Infections

Besides this, your doctor recommends you a few essential steps to manage your MRSA infection. These include-

  • Drainage of pus from the lesion
  • Susceptibility and culture testing of the respective drained material
  • Steps related to care and hygiene of the wound
  • If you have cellulitis without any abscess doctors recommend you for antimicrobial therapy treatment

Methods Adopted To Drain The Boil Or Abscess

Doctors treat various types of skin infections related to S. aureus by simply draining the boil or abscess without using any antibiotic. You should never try to drain the skin boils or abscesses on your own; instead, you should approach your doctor for it. Drainage and incision are the two first-line treatment options to cure mild or moderate type of skin infection. Simultaneously, your doctor will check the potential of your resistance to any antibiotic medicine.(1)

Other Treatment Options Required For Patients

As MRSA affects any organ easily, different doctors take steps to care and provide treatment to manage your MRSA related complications. Accordingly-

  • Infection disease specialized doctors treat deep or complicated MRSA infections
  • A lung specialist or pulmonologist treats its patients to cure MRSA pneumonia problem
  • A heart specialist or cardiologist diagnoses MRSA-related infection in the patient’s heart valves.

Other than this, you will find many other special surgeons to treat various other deep MRSA infections in different organs of your body. These include a podiatrist, an orthopedist, vascular or cardiovascular surgeon to treat your feet, bones, blood vessels and heart problems respectively.

MRSA Signs And Symptoms

In most of the cases, you will find the following major signs and symptoms related to MRSA infection.

Fat tissues or skin infection i.e. cellulitis, which often commences as small red colored bumps in your skin and includes swelling of your tissues, redness, tenderness and warmth.

  • Abscesses and boils formation in your skin
  • Skin redness or sunburn
  • Eyelid’s oil gland infection, known as sty
  • Skin infection combined with pus-filled blisters i.e. impetigo

Conclusion

To conclude we should say that treatment options related to curing patients dealing with MRSA infection depend on different factors and their individual conditions.

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Written, Edited or Reviewed By: Team PainAssist, Pain Assist Inc. This article does not provide medical advice. See disclaimer
Last Modified On:February 20, 2020

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