5 months ago when Eric contracted Staph Infection from San Quentin, he came home with it on his leg and upper chest cavities. 5 months later, thinking it would all be long gone, and what...He has a new break out on his
butt cheek again. According to his doctor Staph lives on your skin, unfortuntley tho, once a person has contracted staph, megazisims can repeat
themselves months down the road. DAMN SAN QUENTIN...this is the worse
case of " Oh it's just a spider bite that I have ever seen"...Now this girl is
pissed.....Suzi :angry:

5 months ago when Eric contracted Staph Infection from San Quentin, he came home with it on his leg and upper chest cavities. 5 months later, thinking it would all be long gone, and what...He has a new break out on his
butt cheek again. According to his doctor Staph lives on your skin, unfortuntley tho, once a person has contracted staph, megazisims can repeat
themselves months down the road. DAMN SAN QUENTIN...this is the worse
case of " Oh it's just a spider bite that I have ever seen"...Now this girl is
pissed.....Suzi :angry:
Suzi, it sounds like Eric may have MRSA. Can't think for the life of me what that stands for (ask his doctor). But it needs to be treated right away. As long as it isn't "oozing" you are ok, but if it starts, he needs to make sure he does not have any physical contact with others. He also needs to bag his clothing and wash it separately from yours. Try doing a search through the Center for Disease Control (the other CDC) and research what MRSA is and what you need to do. I know that inside the prison, when someone has an open MRSA wound, we have to send them to the Infirmary into quarantine. HTH and be safe. :)

MRSA is methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, i.e. the organism is resistant to certain antibiotics and must be cultured and treated with one it is not resistant to...usually a big daddy like vancomycin. Good call Gate Keeper!

Here's more info for you Eric's Girl: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/hip/Aresist/mrsafaq.htm

Just call me Dr. Denise....

MRSA is methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, i.e. the organism is resistant to certain antibiotics and must be cultured and treated with one it is not resistant to...usually a big daddy like vancomycin. Good call Gate Keeper!

Here's more info for you Eric's Girl: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/hip/Aresist/mrsafaq.htm

Just call me Dr. Denise....
Sea, I ain't such a dum gard after all. :D :D :D

Thanks Denise. ;)

LMAO!!! Gate Keeper!! Too funny!!!!

**going to be chuckling about that for awhile**

Homegirl........ hope the honey is better soon. You two have enough to worry about. Like when I am going to show up with my sack lunch!! tee heee

((((((((((((( hugs ))))))))))))

Gate Keeper,

Do they wait till it is at the oozing stage before treatment?

The reason I ask is because if an inmate has an artifical implant like a hip, or knee, etc an infection such as minor staph can be of serious conquences. If the infection is not treated right away the implant has to be removed and remain out for as long as 6 months to a year. Like Suzi has learned the infection can return after several months have passed. :(

Gate Keeper,

Do they wait till it is at the oozing stage before treatment?

The reason I ask is because if an inmate has an artifical implant like a hip, or knee, etc an infection such as minor staph can be of serious conquences. If the infection is not treated right away the implant has to be removed and remain out for as long as 6 months to a year. Like Suzi has learned the infection can return after several months have passed. :(
No, we do not wait to get the imate treatment. As soon as we (custody staff) realize the inmate may have the MRSA (symptoms of the infection), we ask the inmate if he has been seen, or treated by the medical department. If he hasn't then we make sure he is seen. This is kind of a selfish inquiry. We don't want to bring home anything to our family members that we didn't take to work with us. So, it is priority for us to get them medical attention. Our union (I know how some of you feel about them) had to step in and force the medical department to take an active approach to this problem. We FORCED them (through a safety grievance) to enact the protocol we follow for MRSA patients. It was a win-win for the inmates and staff. :)

i hate to hear about eric not doing too well....i hope he gets well soon and they find a cure for this breakout at san quentin.

Thanks all. After our first visit last March 04, he showed me what they had been saying
it was, after being a Police Dispatcher for 5 years and then a LVN for 20 years+ and
now retired, when I saw what they had told him, I said no way, that is Staph. He was
treated with MRSA drugs while in San Quentin, the first dose was for four weeks, the
second was treated by his private doctor when he got home. However his doctor informed me that he will always have the Staph in his system due to being a former
addict. But, HE DID NOT contract it while out here in the free world, until he went to
San Quentin last December 03. And in a sense Gate Keeper I have to tend to disagree
with you just this once I hope, that when Eric first contracted Staph at San Quentin
it took him 4 weeks to be seen. He flagged down a guard in West Block and the guard
did take him to the medical ward immediatley. He had asked several times for medical
care and it went unnoticed until it was so bad that there was a 6 inch tunnel under the
skin. I don't know about PB, but I do know that after contacting the Medical Ward directly at San Quentin a tech named Beverly dummied up on me and said that she hadn't heard of anyone having Staph at the time that Eric was at the Q. And that was
a lie right then and there. So now we are getting him treatments again, and yes I already know about the no no's when a person has staph. It is just so alarming that he
would come down with this again. Suzi

Thanks for the info gate deeper. This has been one of my fears (among many) since this nightmare began. The untreated medical conditions that can spread in a closed society such as a prison is alarming to say the least. I don't blame you for not wanting to take something like that home I don't want to either.

we have had some discussions on this in the medical forum. I have heard that when they limit showers, and also laundry so that they have to use a towel for a week, it makes staph spread easily.