Spider Bite Or MRSA ???

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It seems that in recent years, physicians have started "culturing" wounds more, and they are finding that what they have been diagnosing as spider bites for years, has acutally been MRSA. Commonly, the patient will report with a new "wound", but doesnt remember being bit by anything. Medical professional looks at it, and says, thats a spider bite, must have gotten it while you were sleeping. Look at the pic in link#2, when you see that, think MRSA.


http://www.aafp.org/fpr/20041100/10.html
http://www.surviveoutdoors.com/emergency/mrsa.asp (pic of MRSA wound)
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/ar_MRSA_ca_clinicians.html
 
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CA-MRSA has been seen more and more over the past couple of years, when I was working at Marian ED, we saw alot of the those "spiderbite" type wounds. Needless to say, I cannot say and stress enough about wearing gloves, ( and washing your hands after taking gloves off! remember nothing is complete!) and cleaning equipment and surfaces with germicidal solution. Also the web site for the CDC is a great place for infomation on infection control pratices and all other infomation related to infectious dieases.
 
Dang! Is that what that is?!?!
 
We have a lot of cases of MRSA here... probably every 1 out of 10 IFT's we do, the pt has MRSA somewhere. Its nothing to mess with for sure :D

I am glad to see that they are doing more to find MRSA. Thats a nice step in the right direction.

Take Care,
 
Yeah, we're seeing more and more confirmed MRSA cases here. The sad thing is, apparently once hospitals diagnose it, they're not doing a very good job educating people on how to manage it. My favorite though is when we find out a pt has it and has known about it for a while but didn't think to tell us about it until after treatment... Just another good reason to be vigilant about handwashing and BSI!
 
I saw this when crotchity medic posted exact thing on another site. Plagerism is such a bad thing. Topic is good though, just give credit to the person taken from or are you crotchity?
 
medic417 said:
I saw this when crotchity medic posted exact thing on another site. Plagerism is such a bad thing. Topic is good though, just give credit to the person taken from or are you crotchity?
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I am guessing the later!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Oh my gosh, that is so gross! So is this like the bird flu? Spiders spreading MRSA? What happens? Do they bite someone, then carry the virus to another person, kinda like the way rabies is transmitted? What can we do to protect ourselves from these types of spiders? You'd think this would have been on the news! Super scary!
 
WiFi_Cowgirl said:
Oh my gosh, that is so gross! So is this like the bird flu? Spiders spreading MRSA? What happens? Do they bite someone, then carry the virus to another person, kinda like the way rabies is transmitted? What can we do to protect ourselves from these types of spiders? You'd think this would have been on the news! Super scary!
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I dont think it is the actual spiders that is spreading it I think that is just how it presents, I could be wrong but from what I have read it is just a nasty staph infection that starts out looking like a bite. I personaly am terrified of spiders more than amything, and yeah it is pretty scary none the less.
 
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