What is MRSA?
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- Опубликовано: 3 сен 2017
- What is MRSA? Why is it called a 'Superbug'? Sick Notes by Dr. Hope explains medical terms in plain English.
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Clarifications:
- MRSA; one of the major causes is unclean facilities within hospitals / other facilities. Therefore if you are a patient or visitor it is important to report any unclean facilities to staff - don't be afraid to talk to staff if you're concerned about hygiene
- Water Infection; I should have probably said that the correct term is a urinary tract infection or UTI, and that the layman term is a 'water infection'.
- Antibiotic resistance; there are multiple causes of the increase in antibiotic resistance, not just doctors prescribing them. For example in farming many animals are given prophylactic antibiotics to keep them health and this also breeds antibiotic resistance.
Related links:
- NHS Choices have good update to date information on MRSA:
www.nhs.uk/Conditions/MRSA/ 
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Husband’s back surgery pre-op swab was positive mrsa colonization. We are generally healthy and do not ever need antibiotics so I was in a panic until watching this video. Thanks for explaining it In terms that I understand
I had invasive MRSA when I was 4 years old. It was pure hell. I had to go to the ER for emergency surgery with intravenous antibiotics for half a month afterward.
I'm in the hospital now with MRSA, we caught it early so I'm happy for that I just need to do what the doctors tell me to do and that rest and let my womb heal,now I'm in the hospital with mrsa.
Omg same! Those iv antibiotics are hell too! I was destroyed..
@@kreshagHow are you doing now currently fighting reoccurring MRSA
Me two couple years ago awful
Dr. Hope! Just found your channel and I must say I'm fascinated! My grandad actually died of MRSA in hospital years ago now. I never really knew what it was but now I do. Thanks for making these videos and taking the time out to make them even though we all know the kind of stresses you and your colleagues in the NHS are under.
I work at a tattoo shop & we have to learn about these sorts of bacterial infections for healing afterwards. Thanks for your clear explanation!
Thanks for sharing, I'm currently doing an assignment on transmission of diseases and never thought about tattoo needles. This will definitely boost my grade so thank you!!
Im a surgical nurse and we had a few patients with MRSA and a lot of people tried to explain it to me I even looked it up in the internet but until I saw that video I never really got what the hell this is. Thank you so much you are really good in explaining and I finally get what MRSA is :)
Greetings from Germany
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Vanessa M
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@@cjboi204 I don't know dick about the NHS never mind health care from over seas. But I'm confident that what's compulsory in Germany is different from the UK. I'm assuming the nurse is still in Germany given that she said "greetings from Germany".
Please. This dude isn't a wizard and this shit can be found on Google.
I'm a future skin care therapist, and we are learning about bacteria & infection at the moment. This really helped me get a better understanding of MRSA,thank you.
I had it please learn all you can it is a killer the public must be told to be mote careful of sores and to not take open bleeding sores casually
Did you ever end up becoming a skin care therapist?
Using this to help supplement my Immunology course. Thanks!
Great video, our local hospital prescribed 'Sulfamethoxzole' january 2019 and results are looking very good, things are clearing up nicely, altho slowly....and painfully
These are awesome! Please keep doing more, thank you!
Well paced - very informative and clear and i will remember it because for 60 years I have pronounced both aureus and urinary with a slightly different emphasis. Sounds like not a lot but when you hear it spoken with that different emphasis it's as if someone pushed you (gently)
excellent video, thank you very much for making it easy to understand.
Never fell asleep SUPER TERRIFIC BREAKDOWN!!!! THANK YOU
I have had multiple instances of staph infection 10-12 years ago after a lake was drained near my residence. After developing severe cellulitis, and having it drained, I was prescribed a sulfur based antibiotic which cleared it up very quickly. My immune system didn't do a very good job, hah!
I’m a carrier of MRSA absolutely the worst thing to have 🤦🏽♂️ any bump I get on my body gets infected, filled with pust and swell. I literally had it on my elbow and couldn’t move my whole left arm 🤦🏽♂️
My long distance girlfriend just told me that she’s had staph before when she was 12 years old. It got brought up because she was telling me she had a little bump on her inner thigh and that it’s not serious. She told me the only way I’ll catch it is if she has an active infection and I come into contact with the pus. But she said she uses cream on it and it’ll go away and that ill be fine to come meet her. Her mom also said I have nothing to worry about bec the bacteria is on almost everyone and that it’s not contagious without the active infection, is this true. I really want to go see her it breaks my heart but I also don’t want to get sick. I’m making her go get a nose swab to see if she really still have staph or maybe it was an ingrown hair?
Thank you so much well done
Dr you are so kind thankyou
Wow,well explained, thanks.
Well done 👍
I was once told by my educators that we humans were overdue, which is likely supposed to be in the psychology department as they are abusing the mind with medications while not knowing what they are doing in the first place. Bi-polar 'disorder' had shown the greatest abilities to embrace human +++abilities to not only feel but to express, entertain, be witty, artsy and level yet we treat this trait which is more likely to be an upgrade in human evolution then dull it into depression by altering the entire brain chemistry, which was done to my mother as well... sorry my aunt-sister had MRSA and no, I'm not joking, but the downside with living far away is getting the news from my family like an article in a newsletter without the ability to visit, support, or do anything about it.
Can CRISPR be used to solve all disease and infections?
Thanks for uploading. Well informative specially for public masses that have no background in medicine
Can you do one for VRE?
My son is a carrier and has had MRSA infection 3 times in about 5 years. He just had an orange sized piece of one of his lungs cut out because of it. The hospital knew he had MRSA but they refused to keep him 1 more day to biopsy the fluid in his lung, he was sent home but was back in about 4 days, they then sent him to another hospital where they treated him correctly.
How is your son doing now is he ok?
I had an MRSA scare a few years back; major infection in panus, several surgeries to debride large abcesses. at one point a blood test came back positive for MRSA, but several re-tests showed none, so they ended up decided I didnt have it
i had mrsa aswell and when i was a little kid and i lived some how ..............
thank you
Liquid, Colloidal Silver, 500 PPM helped me. I also use colloidal silver skin Gel
Very interesting. I am an RN in Australia and it seems we deal with MRSA a little differently here than in the UK. We do not swab every patient that is admitted. You are only swabbed if you have had an overnight stay in another hospital within the last 12 months (ED visits do not count). If the swabs return positive for MRSA we commence additional contact precautions where gloves and a disposable gown must be worn when interacting with the patient or their environment in an attempt to prevent spreading MRSA to other patients, but usually by the time the MRSA result comes through the patient has been in the hospital with no additional precautions in place for a few days. To me this method seems a bit like shutting the gate after the horse has already bolted.
Sleepy Frog very similar in Canada! Although we swab all patients being admitted or in pre-op, it’s sometimes difficult explaining the reason for isolation to patient and families after they’ve been without contact precautions initially. I also find with educating family on how to gown and glove sometimes falls on deaf ears and they think it’s just a formality at that point. Also in Canada we do an oral and rectal swab.
Wow rectal swab as a standard measure seems pretty full on! We do axilla, groin and nasal here. And I agree with you regarding explaining to the pt/family why we are now suddenly glove and gowning when they have already been in hospital several days. There must be a better way!
Just letting the patient die because of lack of knowledge.
I had it. Still have some around a hip replacement. MRSA kept me in the hospital for 74 day's.
I'm a diabetic, and about 3.5 years ago, I had an abscess rupture into the fatty tissue of my thigh, which caused cellulitis. The doctor in the ED drained it, but he never actually took any of the fluids for testing. I wound up having to stay an extra 2 nights because my pc wanted to make sure I got several extra doses of IV antibiotics. I was annoyed with that ED doctor.
excellent communication skills for only 3 and 1/2!
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Hi dr hope, I’m Jenna I’m only 16 and have constant MRSA. It’s terrible it goes away and comes back a few weeks later. What is your recommendation?
thanks doc, i'm really freaking slow i think. this was a well scripted, put together summary.
Is that true that I can not have Wisdom teeth removal while having MRSA in my nose?
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I just spend from
9/6/23 thru 9/14/23 with MRSA, bacteria in my blood. It was the most horrible thing that has happen to me. The first 5 I just wanted to die. While in the hospital I was given thru IV 5 different kinds of antibiotics. At the end one did work. Now since 9/27/23 I have been suffering with really bad bladder pain, nauseous, vomiting and really bad headache. I have since 9/27/23 to now been to Urgent Care and two trips to the ER. While at the Urgent Care that I did have a Bladder infection. I was put on antibiotics but only to receive a call from Urgent Care a few days after my visit and told me that after reviewing my urine test that I needed to seek additional medical help because it was not a bladder infection but rather than something else. I have been to the ER twice but both times I have been told that everything shows negative in terms like my white and red cells but I did have a kidney stone on my right side but is not moving? I am so sick right now. My bladder is bothering me so much. I am very nauseous and vomiting that I can not control. I do not know what to do. Do I go back to the hospital and demand to be admitted until they found what is really wrong with me😢. I can not go on one Moore day. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know.
ive been watching ur recent videos and i didn't even know you made educational stuff 😂
Is MRSA what people here in the states pronounce “Mersa?” Or is that different? Thanks
Its the same thing
Same thing
Can you ever get rid of it from your skin if you're a carrier?
@@Neilukuk everyone carries MRSA on their skin, it’s only if to many get into broken skin that it becomes a problem.
@@VBH8888So true and I had 1time on my big toe and I did lose the toe from Osteomyelitis the MRSA did not help either it was not pleasant to say the least. God bless the patients and the Doctors!
What are the two stacked books in the background 🤔
How are you? I am a citizen of Mongolia. I got MRSA disease 2 years ago. Doctors in our country have not been able to treat it yet, so please give me 🙏🙏🙏 good advice. Thank you.
I caught MRSA when I had an inguinal hernia operation at age 18. It was the most painful experience of my life, felt like torture. I wasn't stabbed before the surgery to test if I had it on my skin, but it was about 13 years ago now and not sure if they did that back then in Ipswich Hospital.
I am a hospital worker , I had
ruptured pimple inside my ear 8 days back, and I just found out today , I have MRSA.
The doctor checked and it is infected already.
He took swab for culture ,and prescribed me oral antibiotics and cream. After 3 days of follow-up checkup we found out there is MRSA isolated at the site. So again he took swab from other sites ,like nose,mouth,axilla. Now im enjoying my sick leave until the result comes.
The doctor change right away my antibiotic to Clindamycin 350mg twice daily. And topical cream 3x a day.. hopefully other sites where i took swab will be negative , otherwise I cannot do patient care until I get treated.
@lo life im doing fine thank you , the wound is healing now .
hope ur feeling better too. take your meds in accurate intervals, dont skip.
Dr. Hope,
God Bless you for making videos that the lay person can understand.
I love your accent and could listen to you all day! Lol! Too cute! I like your background set too! The skeleton with the stethoscope around it's neck makes me laugh! Nice touch Dr. Hope!
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God bless you & keep up the good work!
Robyn M
Can staph infection be confused with cold sore
A week ago I thought it was hives on my back. Four days ago I showed the big round red bumps to a medical person who said he was sure it was MRSA. The 5 sores on my back developed separately over two or three days, and now I'm getting sores on my left arm. I called my primary doctor's office to get an appointment, and though I told them that it's most likely MRSA and I need to be tested, they didn't seem concerned and made an appointment two weeks away. These welt looking sores hurt to have clothing touch them. I'm really worried.
Ummm instead of waiting 2 weeks go to walk-in clinic or ER?
What was it?
Is that how you say urinary?! I've been pronouncing it like URINE-ARY all this time!
Great video - really informative
I've never heard anyone say it the way he does - actually it wasn't until he said it the third or fourth time that I understood it was urinary, I thought he was saying something I'd never heard of!
I got MRSA most likely from people not sanitizing the equipment at Planet Fitness. That’s what my doctor told me. I just started going back to the gym.
Some one having MRSA in throat !!!
How to treat,any herbal remedies!!?
Is Marisa . Like cellulitis?
if you cover MRSA - you could have addressed VRSA considering its quite the neighbor to MRSA.
i had mrsa when i was real young in my kidneys. the docs said i had cancer at first but thank god they was wrong.
A doctor told me that a past MRSA diagnosis follows the patient around pretty much forever and makes getting medical care much more of a pain in the ass. Is this true?
Hello, Doctor
I am from Kenya and I have MRSA since 2012. Please, assist. Thank you.
I had MRSA once it was scary but funny As Well . I got it in my leg and when I got to the E.R I was unable to explain what exactly was going on in my upper leg so I just took my pants off in the middle of the E.R lmao well they got me my own room pretty fast . I was crying so bad because you know Dr google is a scary person I thought I was going to loose my leg . wonderful memory.😳
Same here, knee locked up and couldn't walk on it for over a month, had a fever so bad I was hallucinating, followed by pimples on my chest and arms that turns to black cysts and full of puss. A shitload of amoxicillin later, it was finally treated. Still have scars from the cysts, not good. Sucks when you have to struggle 10 minutes to get your stiff hurting leg into a bathtub to stand on one leg to shower.
Donovan Bailey did the stiffness in your leg ever go away ?
I had MRSA sepsis from caregiving. Not a thing to mess with
So it’s contagious? Did u cure it ?
I'm recovering from Cellulitis to the skin iam taking antibiotics been on antibiotics for a week.
if someone has recovered from it, are they still infectious to someone with mild scalp psoriasis?
You must eat your own psoriasis, just picking it
Like snack
I worked, in a general hospital, & got the noro virus , we had a days induction, and the importance of not wearing your uniform into work, did anybody listen - No
you still see them jumping on & of buses, with their uniform, with the Corona virus. This could now be fatal!
I had this kind of infection before . Do you think that this kind of bacteria can stay in my body for longer times?Greetings from denmark ! Hope I can hear any response!
I had it in four spots. They went away and four months later I got it again.
Yes its on ur skin, inside the nose and troath it will not to away if u don't treat it. Doesnt mean u have no infection right now u already get rid of it. I had it find out when I was pregnant and then i needed to take antibiotics for 8 days cream my nose, shower 2 times a day with special soap using it all over my body. Doing the special very strong mouth wash and changing bedsheets, blankets every day i need to wash them at 60° tem. Doing it everyday for 8 days.
@@babyloubrizuela5651 thanks a lot but that was 2 years ago
Can you get it from eczema on your hands?
yes
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i might have it but the doctors need to double check the test
one warning i can give to people is to avoid picking the nose thats where most of the mrsa is
I've had MRSA and it's gross, painful, and it gave me trauma
I contracted MRSA November 2020 started like a pimple then looked like spider bite 3 days later a fever couldn't walk was hospitalized almost 2 weeks then did antibiotics at home it spread to my heart so no I'm dealing with the aftermath
Hey, how is everything going? Did you recover?
You speak very fast for me, a norwegian. Got something, but hoho
Currently dealing with this after having a coldsore and picking it up off of a phone at work. the facial abscesses are the worst thing ever 🤮
I have mrsa and have been treated for abscess they gave me antibiotics that did not work and did surgery and they would reappear finally i discovered that as soon as i would start getting red or abscess if i used hydrogen peroxide just swab the area 2 to 3 times a day it healed so i investigated and found food grade hydrogen peroxide 35% and would add some to the 3% solution to make it stronger 1 time and it would go away no more antibiotics no more surgery the 3% works fine if you catch it early apply after a hot shower when your pores are open if they did this for people just wipe them down would also prevent bed sores big pharma doesn't want you to know this no money in it. Peroxide is a miracle!
Healing from it now, the Dr said it could take 2 months to heal 😢😢
Thank you am in hospital I was bitten by a horsefly my wound went nasty ways so they took me to have an op I been really poorly with it they g had to cut away the infected areas am now so scared they put me on antibiotics am in hospital and want to go home but I need nursing as they have to dress my wounds 😊
Ok so 3 weeks of doxycycline that isn't that technical.That info is correct as I had the infection.
Did 3 weeks work for you? How many milligrams? I am on my first week @ 100mg and seeing no progress
@@aur2009how are you now ?
@@aur2009how do I tell the difference between MRSA and a bug bite ?
In the end, i had to go on a 3 week cycle of prednisolone (tapering down) to calm my immune system enough for the doxy to work.
Had it before when I was a kid put garlic actually stung like a mf and used antibiotics ofc but the garlic did wonders is that weird?? Lol
Apparently it has a morality rate of 32 percent. Which is quite high .
What is MRSA?
A trash-head that made me suffer as a 3 year old
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Hi all, I made a typo, You'll be surprised to see your white cell count will be higher, not low, after 1 year of taking the supplements.
Robyn M
I understand...
I though I had shingles
3:44 3:47
Had it on my face above my eyebrow, not good
had it under my armpit, not good.
@@baguettefeet9994 also had it under my armpit 😂
Next? ESBL?
give merrem !
you cant discuss ESBL without first discussing what a beta lactamase is .. and to discuss that you'd have to divide even further into what a beta lactam is ... baby steps first ... not straight to ESBL Lol
I ate vegan for 3 months and I noticed the infection went away. As soon as I started eating bad again it came back.
correlation doesn't always equal causation
Vegan is not healthy
May the bacteria be with you
Me=☠️
I know dummy but you kinda didnt explain what it looks like, symptoms etc. dummy.