We used the neosporing and bactroban with one of Jimmy's outbreaks,
and it didn't do anything for him (I had a Dr friend tell me once
that neosporin is actually stronger than bactroban, but it harsher
on little ones' skin). The one Dr who knew nothing about it
prescribed an antifungal cream, which didn't do anything for it
either (which never made sense to me since it's a bacteria...). The
only thing that fights it back is Cleocin. When we see the
specialist on the 19th, I'm going to ask them about putting him on
Septra/Bactrim long term since the Cleocin doesn't seem to kill it
all the way, just weaken it enough to make the abcesses go away for
a whle.


--- In MRSA@yahoogroups.com, "Lynny" <lynny_2006walkswithwolf@...>
wrote:
>
> that are going thru the pain of abcesses.I know Camille,my 3 year
old
> grandaughter couldnt even set without screaming in pain.
> We don'y know if she contracted thru myself or her daddy.We have
went
> thru tube after tube of Bactroban and also the Bactroban nasal gel.
>
> One of my specialist for MRSA made a comment to me when he noticed
I
> was wearing nail tips.He said it is a BIG NO-NO!!He explained to
me
> taht he doesn't allow any nurses or doctors yhat work with him to
> wear ANY false fingernails because their is a wierd kind of staph
> carried under them no matter how clean you are.Over a years
time,the
> number of patients coming down w/hospital MRSA in his hospital is
> down over 50%.
>
> I still have terrible scars and have suffered lots of nerve damage
on
> my scalp.One place took so long to heal that mt scalp is indented
> where the infection was eating thru my skull and at the base of my
> skull (where they took me to surgery)The hole that was left took
> forever to heal.My husband,Doc,God bless him..wet & dry packed it
3-4
> times a day till it shrunk enough to have a skin graft.
>
>
> My son has had to have abcesses drained from his abdomen & liver
> twice and green thick pus still comes out where the drain tubes
were
> placed when he was shot.We have all bathed in an iodine solution
for
> over a year now...taken antibiotics out the wazzoo and we are
still
> plauged by MRSA.
>
> I am really relived to find you all and wish each of you good luck!
>
> Love ya'll
> Lynny
>