This girl I was smoking with a couple weeks ago

Has been sick and just found out yesterday that she was a staph infection that has reached her blood.

I knew there was a reason I feared MRSA.

 

What's a staph infection?

(Sorry, I can't know everything haha)

 

That sucks... this girl I used to be friends with had that happened. I hope everything will be ok.

 

Symptoms of Staph Infections
The symptoms of a staph skin infection depends on where the infection is. The staph bacteria can cause:

* boils - an abscess within the skin. Also called a furuncle.
* cellulitis - a localized skin infection which can make the skin red, painful, and warm
* folliculitis - an infection of hair follicles
* impetigo - causes blisters (bullous impetigo) or honey colored crusted lesions on the skin
* paronychia - an infection of the skin folds of the nails

In addition to skin infections, the staph bacteria can cause:

* bacteremia - a blood infection
* deep abscesses - a collection of pus somewhere inside the body
* endocarditis - an infection on the valves of the heart
* food poisoning
* lymphadenitis - an infection of a lymph gland, which causes it to be red, swollen, and painful
* lymphangitis - an infection of the lymph channels that drain to lymph glands, causing red streaks in the skin
* osteomyelitis - a bone infection
* scalded skin syndrome
* septic arthritis - an infection of a joint, like the hip or knee
* styes - an infection of the glands on the eyelid
* toxic shock syndrome



A lot of them are antibiotic resistant, which is the main problem with them.

They used to mainly occur with people in hospitals only pretty much but now or much more common...

Some can be treated in like 30 days with antibiotics...
Some cant be at all...
they CAN kill you but not always....

 

* lymphadenitis - an infection of a lymph gland, which causes it to be red, swollen, and painful <----That shit fucking hurts, let alone the rest of the symptons.

What's MRSA?

 

eww gross

 

MRSA is a staph infection..

I dont know... I'm not the best to explain it really.

Look it up.

 

Methicillin Resistant Staphococcal Aureus.

It's what happens when pharmaceutical companies fuck around with testing drugs on humans. It's a staph infection that has mutated and is resistant to standard anti-biotics. And it sucks. And it is totally unneccesary that such things exist.