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A 30-year-old female asked:
My daughter has mrsa she has not had any symptoms in over a year but now her grandma's doctor says that my daughter gave her a regular staph infection?
3 doctor answers • 4 doctors weighed in
Dr. Oscar Novickanswered
Pediatrics 60 years experience
Staph infection.: That is a possibility, especially if your daughter has open sores or impetigo of the skin. Another source of contamination would be a runny nose with a mucoid discharge.
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Dr. James Fergusonanswered
Pediatrics 48 years experience
Confusing question: People can have a MRSA infection but they don't carry it forever like hiv. Treatment eliminates the germ.Staph is present everywhere in the environment and more than 70% of the abscess i see are community acquired mrsa, while 30% are not. Her grandma could easily get staph from her environment, and why her doc accused your child of bringing it to her is beyond me.
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Dr. Keith Ramseyanswered
Pediatrics - Adolescent Medicine 38 years experience
Not likely: Mrsa is everywhere, on everything. It is not possible to say where grandma got it from. Maybe she gave it to your daughter a year ago. It is one of the most frequent skin infections we see in the office. We don't even try to figure out who gave it to whom.
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