Dr. Henry Bloom

Midwives are skillful deliverers of babies, and knowledgeable and compassionate care providers.

Inflammation in the lung triggers reflexes that cause cough.

Also mucous caused by the inflammation does the same. The lungs are trying to clear the germs and debris.   

Although many experts reccommend only local therapy without a culture, what bacteria (staph strep, or both) and what antibiotic to use can't be known without a culture.

Though many experts reccommend only local treatement, without culture, our studies in families show that a culture is needed to see if impetigo is staph, strep or both, and what antibiotic it is sensitive to.

Mrsa stands for mehticillin resistant stapholoccus aureus.

Children, especially in daycare or early grades, where there is a lot of close contact, may often bring home staph.

But MRSA is still not that common in most communities.   

Look at CDC sites. See what i wrote in jama.

  

It is spread by direct physical contact with those infected or carrying it, or from their items of close contacr- towels, clothes, bedclothes, dishes, etc.