Just wanted to throw this out there ...

[lavenderinscence]

I just wanted to add a tidbit of information out there that was a little disturbing to me, and still might affect me. Also, I was wondering if anyone else might be affected by this.

We all know what MRSA is, right? Antibiotic resistant Staph. Usually not a big deal if it is localized and treated accordingly ...

Well, about a month before I found out i was pregnant, my 3 year old was diagnosed with Impetigo caused by MRSA. it wasn't scary or anything, I was a little concerned obviously for his health but it didn't look bad at all (i actually thought they were chicken pox) he was on antibiotics for 10 days and it was gone. About a week later, I noticed a bug bite had gotten infected on my wrist. Overnight it seemed, it swelled and red spread up my forearm. I went to the ER and because my son tested positive for MRSA they went ahead and treated me as though that's what was wrong without testing me. I was on Bactrim for 10 days and it went away (it wasn't as bad as it sounds ... maybe the size of a nickel, just all red and swollen) now, at 5 months pregnant, My OB comes into the room and starts the conversation by saying " since you have a history of MRSA we are required to test you by the CDC 3 times before you give birth or you will give birth in a quarantine room with one doctor, one nurse, DRESSED IN FULL PROTECTIVE GEAR, and no visitors. Needless to say, I was shell shocked ... I felt dirty in a weird way. She told me that I have to test negative 3 times in a row, or that's how their gonna do it. I've never heard of anything like that ever and it really sounds like overkill to me. I did however test negative on my first test, but i have 2 more to go in a row.


I don't understand how i can go to a doctors office or anywhere for that matter but yet i have to deliver in a quarantine room ... in a hospital were MRSA originated and half of the staff are probably carriers anyway ... They even black flag your medical chart if youre ever tested positive for it. does anyone have any thoughts on this? or experience? MRSA is actually very common, and I was a little outraged at how their trying to be with me ...

i really wanted to share my ... displeasure. lol

[lavenderinscence]

I know that it can be contagious. I absolutely believe that your mother picked up the MRSA from  the hospital  as well. It is where it originated. I am a certified Surgical Technologist, and I see it more often that it's reported. My point was, they are treating me as though I'm gonna spread Ebola or something to the other people, when in reality ... the staff are much more likely to be carriers and transmit to the patients. My child will be more likely to to get something from the nursery than actually get germs from me. The whole thing just makes my head hurt. I actually am starting to think about birthing at home ...

[Sunkissed19]

*couldnt share towels and stuff not could lol

[Sunkissed19]

well i know that MRSA is very contagious and since there are A LOT of fluids and such that are going all over the place during birth than they are probably all parinoid about contamenation(sp) and they just dont want an outbreak in the hospital because of it being transfered through fluids all over or something. it does sound like over kill to me as well but thats prolly why theyre freaking out about it. have u gotten a second opinion at a different doctors office? you might want to try that. my mom got MRSA on her surgery site after getting an ovary removed from the hospital and they were all hush hush about it because they didnt want it getting around that she got it from the hospital...hers was pretty nasty though and she had to have it drained...could share towels with the rest of the house etc.