Culturing staphyloccocus aureus

[froggymama]

My daughter has cultured Staphyloccocus Aureus (sp) two times now. It isn't MRSA, but what does it really mean?

Our Pulmonologist said they don't usually treat it with antibiotics, because it could make it worse. Gee, that's reassuring.

Any advice, same experience? Elise

 

[froggymama]

My daughter has cultured Staphyloccocus Aureus (sp) two times now. It isn't MRSA, but what does it really mean?

Our Pulmonologist said they don't usually treat it with antibiotics, because it could make it worse. Gee, that's reassuring.

Any advice, same experience? Elise

 

[froggymama]

My daughter has cultured Staphyloccocus Aureus (sp) two times now. It isn't MRSA, but what does it really mean?

Our Pulmonologist said they don't usually treat it with antibiotics, because it could make it worse. Gee, that's reassuring.

Any advice, same experience? Elise

 

[froggymama]

My daughter has cultured Staphyloccocus Aureus (sp) two times now. It isn't MRSA, but what does it really mean?

Our Pulmonologist said they don't usually treat it with antibiotics, because it could make it worse. Gee, that's reassuring.

Any advice, same experience? Elise

 

[froggymama]

My daughter has cultured Staphyloccocus Aureus (sp) two times now. It isn't MRSA, but what does it really mean?
<br />
<br />Our Pulmonologist said they don't usually treat it with antibiotics, because it could make it worse. Gee, that's reassuring.
<br />
<br />Any advice, same experience? Elise

 

[Nightwriter]

Hi Elise,

Staph is a bacteria that freqently hangs around in CF'ers lungs. MRSA is Staph that is resistant to drugs in the penicillin drug class. So if someone has MRSA, they can no longer use Penicillin which used to kill staph pretty easily. MRSA can become sensitive again and then it becomes ordinary staph again. Sometimes Staph/Mrsa disappears on it's own (this has happened to me).

One of the reasons they don't treat it, is just because it is present in the lungs, doesn't mean that it's causing any active infection. And if they treat it, it tends to come back anyway. So that was a waste of using an antibiotic for when you might really need it. And each time you use an antibiotic, it makes a bacteria slightly stronger and harder to treat in the future. I am sure this is what your doctor meant.

There is also a belief that Staph sometimes helps control Pseudomonas because it doesn't give Pseudomonas as much room to take hold.

Just to make you feel better... so you know it's possible: A few years ago I had MRSA that became Staph, now nothing. This last time, I didn't take antibiotics, but I did go on H.S. and added some supplements.

 

[Nightwriter]

Hi Elise,

Staph is a bacteria that freqently hangs around in CF'ers lungs. MRSA is Staph that is resistant to drugs in the penicillin drug class. So if someone has MRSA, they can no longer use Penicillin which used to kill staph pretty easily. MRSA can become sensitive again and then it becomes ordinary staph again. Sometimes Staph/Mrsa disappears on it's own (this has happened to me).

One of the reasons they don't treat it, is just because it is present in the lungs, doesn't mean that it's causing any active infection. And if they treat it, it tends to come back anyway. So that was a waste of using an antibiotic for when you might really need it. And each time you use an antibiotic, it makes a bacteria slightly stronger and harder to treat in the future. I am sure this is what your doctor meant.

There is also a belief that Staph sometimes helps control Pseudomonas because it doesn't give Pseudomonas as much room to take hold.

Just to make you feel better... so you know it's possible: A few years ago I had MRSA that became Staph, now nothing. This last time, I didn't take antibiotics, but I did go on H.S. and added some supplements.

 

[Nightwriter]

Hi Elise,

Staph is a bacteria that freqently hangs around in CF'ers lungs. MRSA is Staph that is resistant to drugs in the penicillin drug class. So if someone has MRSA, they can no longer use Penicillin which used to kill staph pretty easily. MRSA can become sensitive again and then it becomes ordinary staph again. Sometimes Staph/Mrsa disappears on it's own (this has happened to me).

One of the reasons they don't treat it, is just because it is present in the lungs, doesn't mean that it's causing any active infection. And if they treat it, it tends to come back anyway. So that was a waste of using an antibiotic for when you might really need it. And each time you use an antibiotic, it makes a bacteria slightly stronger and harder to treat in the future. I am sure this is what your doctor meant.

There is also a belief that Staph sometimes helps control Pseudomonas because it doesn't give Pseudomonas as much room to take hold.

Just to make you feel better... so you know it's possible: A few years ago I had MRSA that became Staph, now nothing. This last time, I didn't take antibiotics, but I did go on H.S. and added some supplements.

 

[Nightwriter]

Hi Elise,

Staph is a bacteria that freqently hangs around in CF'ers lungs. MRSA is Staph that is resistant to drugs in the penicillin drug class. So if someone has MRSA, they can no longer use Penicillin which used to kill staph pretty easily. MRSA can become sensitive again and then it becomes ordinary staph again. Sometimes Staph/Mrsa disappears on it's own (this has happened to me).

One of the reasons they don't treat it, is just because it is present in the lungs, doesn't mean that it's causing any active infection. And if they treat it, it tends to come back anyway. So that was a waste of using an antibiotic for when you might really need it. And each time you use an antibiotic, it makes a bacteria slightly stronger and harder to treat in the future. I am sure this is what your doctor meant.

There is also a belief that Staph sometimes helps control Pseudomonas because it doesn't give Pseudomonas as much room to take hold.

Just to make you feel better... so you know it's possible: A few years ago I had MRSA that became Staph, now nothing. This last time, I didn't take antibiotics, but I did go on H.S. and added some supplements.

 

[Nightwriter]

Hi Elise,
<br />
<br />Staph is a bacteria that freqently hangs around in CF'ers lungs. MRSA is Staph that is resistant to drugs in the penicillin drug class. So if someone has MRSA, they can no longer use Penicillin which used to kill staph pretty easily. MRSA can become sensitive again and then it becomes ordinary staph again. Sometimes Staph/Mrsa disappears on it's own (this has happened to me).
<br />
<br />One of the reasons they don't treat it, is just because it is present in the lungs, doesn't mean that it's causing any active infection. And if they treat it, it tends to come back anyway. So that was a waste of using an antibiotic for when you might really need it. And each time you use an antibiotic, it makes a bacteria slightly stronger and harder to treat in the future. I am sure this is what your doctor meant.
<br />
<br />There is also a belief that Staph sometimes helps control Pseudomonas because it doesn't give Pseudomonas as much room to take hold.
<br />
<br />Just to make you feel better... so you know it's possible: A few years ago I had MRSA that became Staph, now nothing. This last time, I didn't take antibiotics, but I did go on H.S. and added some supplements.

 

[ymikhale]

Nightwriter,
what supplements did you use? my daughter has staph every other clinic visit. They advised us againts HS for now b/c she is onlt 1 y/o and has no respiratory symptoms, so they don't want her to start doing the nebulizer.

thanks!

 

[ymikhale]

Nightwriter,
what supplements did you use? my daughter has staph every other clinic visit. They advised us againts HS for now b/c she is onlt 1 y/o and has no respiratory symptoms, so they don't want her to start doing the nebulizer.

thanks!

 

[ymikhale]

Nightwriter,
what supplements did you use? my daughter has staph every other clinic visit. They advised us againts HS for now b/c she is onlt 1 y/o and has no respiratory symptoms, so they don't want her to start doing the nebulizer.

thanks!

 

[ymikhale]

Nightwriter,
what supplements did you use? my daughter has staph every other clinic visit. They advised us againts HS for now b/c she is onlt 1 y/o and has no respiratory symptoms, so they don't want her to start doing the nebulizer.

thanks!

 

[ymikhale]

Nightwriter,
<br />what supplements did you use? my daughter has staph every other clinic visit. They advised us againts HS for now b/c she is onlt 1 y/o and has no respiratory symptoms, so they don't want her to start doing the nebulizer.
<br />
<br />thanks!

 

[Ratatosk]

There's been some discussion/debate on this before. I know some parents whose kids go to U of MN, who culture staph a and they only are prescribed ABX when they've got symptoms, a cough.

I seem to recall the theory is that the staph keeps pseudo at bay, though some people on this site indicated that their children with Staph, compared with their children who cultured pseudo had more lung issues...

 

[Ratatosk]

There's been some discussion/debate on this before. I know some parents whose kids go to U of MN, who culture staph a and they only are prescribed ABX when they've got symptoms, a cough.

I seem to recall the theory is that the staph keeps pseudo at bay, though some people on this site indicated that their children with Staph, compared with their children who cultured pseudo had more lung issues...

 

[Ratatosk]

There's been some discussion/debate on this before. I know some parents whose kids go to U of MN, who culture staph a and they only are prescribed ABX when they've got symptoms, a cough.

I seem to recall the theory is that the staph keeps pseudo at bay, though some people on this site indicated that their children with Staph, compared with their children who cultured pseudo had more lung issues...

 

[Ratatosk]

There's been some discussion/debate on this before. I know some parents whose kids go to U of MN, who culture staph a and they only are prescribed ABX when they've got symptoms, a cough.

I seem to recall the theory is that the staph keeps pseudo at bay, though some people on this site indicated that their children with Staph, compared with their children who cultured pseudo had more lung issues...

 

[Ratatosk]

There's been some discussion/debate on this before. I know some parents whose kids go to U of MN, who culture staph a and they only are prescribed ABX when they've got symptoms, a cough.
<br />
<br />I seem to recall the theory is that the staph keeps pseudo at bay, though some people on this site indicated that their children with Staph, compared with their children who cultured pseudo had more lung issues...