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.   

Young children, especially, who have close contact with others in daycare and ealy school, often bring home staph, (impetigo, respiratory, ear infections), but since most communities do not have alot of mrsa, it is the more common staph that they get and bring home.

  

Achild can get bronchitis as part of an MRSA repiratory infection, but is not likely to get pneumonia, unless there is underlying asthma, or immune disease.

  

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

  

Mrsa stands for methicillin resistant stapholoccuc aureus, and is a staph that is resistant to many usual antibiotics (and each one has different antibiotics that will kill it).

This is an extremely dangerous, potentially life threatening infection, that requires treatment with the specific antibiotics to which the MRSA is sensitive, and close supervision.

  

Usually it will not, but if it invoves deeper tissues, as cellulitis or abcess, it may well.

Of course, people who form keloids (large scars) are much more susceptible.   

It can spread to other areas of the skin, to deeper tissues, causing cellulitis, abcess, lymphangitis, which can spread to the blood.

It ialso can spread to the respiratory tract. It also often spreads to other members of the household..   

But aa, for the vast majority of alcoholics, helps.