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How Can Staph Infection Be Treated?
I HAVE BEEN A CANCER PATIENT AND HAD A CVA. I have also had mersa three times post op. I now have a staph infection. The meds sugested are Bactrim, Clindamycin. I have had both before but the abdominal problems have been bad. May I have a suggestion? Thank you
Thu, 11 Jan 2018
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we know that cancer has some problems with immunity but we should deal with that....i would like to tell you that cancer causes immunosuppression ..so the immune system is weak to fight infection...mrsa is atype of staph that is resistant to antibiotics.....althaugh vancomycin is good for mrsa treatment....but we prefer antibiotic sensetivity test and that test detect what antibiotic used for treatment to give best results...you can discuss that with your doctor to use vancomycin or do antibiotic sensetivity test .....misuse of antibiotics cause clostridium difficile infection especially in cancer patient and this infection may cause diarhea or abdominal pain you can you can discuss with your doctor about that probability.....you need not to worry and follow these simple steps and improvement will occur....wish you healthy life ...thank you
we know that cancer has some problems with immunity but we should deal with that....i would like to tell you that cancer causes immunosuppression ..so the immune system is weak to fight infection...mrsa is atype of staph that is resistant to antibiotics.....althaugh vancomycin is good for mrsa treatment....but we prefer antibiotic sensetivity test and that test detect what antibiotic used for treatment to give best results...you can discuss that with your doctor to use vancomycin or do antibiotic sensetivity test .....misuse of antibiotics cause clostridium difficile infection especially in cancer patient and this infection may cause diarhea or abdominal pain you can you can discuss with your doctor about that probability.....you need not to worry and follow these simple steps and improvement will occur....wish you healthy life ...thank you
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