What effects can MRSA have on an unborn baby?
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MRSA is relatively aggressive but if there were any danger to your unborn baby I would hope your dr. would suggest antibiotic therapy for you.  Ask your doctor.  I don't think under normal circumstances it can harm an unborn unless it is affecting mom somehow.
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MRSA\nMRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (often misspelled as and searched as " MSRA Symptoms "), is a bacterium that has developed antibiotic resistance, first to penicillin in 1947, and later to methicillin and related "anti-staph drugs". Popularly termed a "superbug", it was first discovered in Britain in 1961 and is now widespread. While an MRSA colonisation in an otherwise healthy individual is not usually a serious matter, infection with the organism can be life-threatening to patients with deep wounds, intravenous catheters or other foreign-body instrumentation, or as a secondary infection in patients with compromised immune systems.\n\nBecause cystic fibrosis patients are often treated with multiple antibiotics in hospital settings, they are often colonised with MRSA, potentially increasing the rate of life-threatening MRSA pneumonias among them. The risk of cross-colonisation has led to increased use of isolation protocols among these patients.\n\nIn the US there are increasing reports of outbreaks of MRSA colonisation and infection through skin contact in locker rooms and gymnasiums, even among healthy populations. MRSA causes as many as 20% of Staph aureus infections in populations that use intravenous drugs. These out-of-hospital strains of MRSA, now designated as community-acquired, methicillin-resistant staph. aureus, or CAMRSA, are not only difficult to treat but are especially virulent. CAMRSA apparently did not evolve de novo in the community, but represents a hybrid between MRSA which escaped from the hospital environment and the once easily treatable community organisms. Most of the hybrid strains also acquired a virulence factor which makes their infections invade more aggressively, resulting in deep tissue infections following minor scrapes and cuts, and many cases of fatal pneumonia as well.\n\nsymptoms of MRSA infection\nMSRA infection symptoms are similar to those of Staph, but the bacterium is resistent to methicillin. MSRA symptoms include:\n\nPain and swelling around an open wound (cut or scrape) of the skin. \nFuruncles (boils) and carbuncles, white-headed pimples around hair follicles. \nBlistering and peeling skin, in infants and young children. \nSwollen lymph nodes in the neck, armpits or groin. \nA lot of atheletes get it
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I highly doubt that your doctor would give you something that would cause birth defects.  There are antibiotics that are safe to use during pregnancy.  If you are that concerned I suggest you ask your doctor about it.
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Talk to an endocrinologist and your OB.  They would be the best ones to advise you.  If you are taking thyroid medicine, I would continue to do so unless advised to stop.  Thyroid is something your body needs to function properly and should not be dangerous for your unborn baby.
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Maybe it's a sign of pregnancy? It's known that that your immune system is lowered slightly during pregnancy in order to stop your body rejecting your unborn baby. This may mean that you are more vulnerable to infections, such as coughs, colds and flu.\n\nYou should never buy over-the-counter remedies without first checking with your GP or pharmacist that they are safe to take during pregnancy. Many aren't... but it's safe to take the recommended dose of paracetamol. However, you should avoid aspirin as it can affect your baby's development in the early weeks and, in late pregnancy, affect the onset and length of your labour. Ibuprofen, codeine and painkillers that contain a combination of drugs should be avoided, too.\n\nhttp://www.babycentre.co.uk/pregnancy/antenatalhealth/physicalhealth/coughdandcolds/
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a specific strain of the Staphylococcus aureus bacterium that has developed antibiotic resistance to all penicillins, including methicillin and other narrow-spectrum β-lactamase-resistant penicillin antibiotics.[1] MRSA was first discovered in the UK in 1961 and is now widespread, particularly in the hospital setting where it is commonly termed a superbug.\n\nMRSA may also be known as oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (ORSA) and multiple-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, while non-methicillin resistant strains of S. aureus are sometimes called methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) if an explicit distinction must be made.\n\nAlthough MRSA has traditionally been seen as a hospital-associated infection, there is currently an epidemic of community-acquired MRSA in the USA. The abbreviations CA-MRSA (community-associated MRSA) and HA-MRSA (hospital-associated MRSA) are now commonly seen in the literature.\n\nStaphylococcus bacteria are extremely common in the environment (and a third of humans world-wide are estimated to carry it on their bodies and are not harmed by it), and is usually not a problem to healthy individuals. Historically, staph infections begin only after the individual has suffered a skin break or open wound. Recently, due to institutional overuse of antibiotics, strains of staphylococcus aureus have developed drug resistance. If an individual has a weak immune response to the bacteria, a MRSA infection can result even with no apparent open wound. The symptoms can range from skin boils to necrotizing fasciitis, popularly known as flesh-eating disease. MRSA infections are typically combatted with vancomycin, however, vancomycin-resistant staphylococcus has recently appeared.\n\nAlthough Noskin and others report that a patient infected with MRSA is five times more likely to die than other patients; it is not clear that patients who are infected with MRSA have an increased death rate. Wyllie et al. report a death rate of 34 percent within 30 days among patients infected with MRSA, while among MSSA patients the death rate was similar at 27%\n\nVancomycin and teicoplanin are glycopeptide antibiotics used to treat MRSA infections. Teicoplanin is a structural congener of vancomycin that has a similar activity spectrum but a longer half-life (t½). Both drugs have low oral absorption and must therefore be administered intravenously for systemic infections. One of the problems with vancomycin is not just that its route of administration is inconvenient, but also that it is inferior in terms of its efficacy compared to antistaphylococcal penicillins.\n\nSeveral new strains of MRSA have been found showing antibiotic resistance even to vancomycin and teicoplanin; those new evolutions of the MRSA bacteria are dubbed vancomycin intermediate-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VISA). Linezolid, quinupristin/dalfopristin, daptomycin, tigecycline are more recent additions to the therapeutic arsenal, generally reserved for severe infections which do not respond to glycopeptides. Less severe infections may be treated by oral agents including: linezolid, rifampicin+fusidic acid, pristinamycin, co-trimoxazole (trimethoprim+sulfamethoxazole), doxycycline, and clindamycin.
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It is so the bacteria can become stronger and more resistant.  I believe studies have shown that babies that have not been exposed to bacteria are actually sicker when they get older because the have not built up any immunities.
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I am not sure that it has any effect on the fetus, but it may make the pregnant woman faint more often.  This is just a guess, though...
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Unless your baby comes into contact with your genital area, you aren't going to pass it on to your baby.\n\nWashing your hands will help if you have touched your genital area and then are going to touch the baby.  Other than that, no need to wash your hands (other than colds, flus, basic hygiene, etc.).  And no worries with clothing.\n\nThere is some thought that maybe damp towels that YOU have used on your genital area MIGHT spread it, but its not been proven in a lab.\n\nCheck out the handbook I have listed as a source.  And there are really good articles and forums at the second source.
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First, I'll address MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylcoccus aureus).  S. aurues is a common organism.  One-third of the U.S. population carries this organism within their nares.  About 1% of the U.S. population carries MRSA within their nares (roughly 3 million people), although higher carriage rates may vary with region and population base.  Colonization with MRSA does not equate to infection, and colonization can be harmless.  Also, there has been a delineation within the last several years between typical hospital-acquired MRSA and a newer community-acquired MRSA.  The latter form has been associated with greater virulence due to certain toxins.  There have been many reported cases of young healthy individuals presented with overwhelming pneumonia and sepsis due to community-acquired MRSA, but this is a minority.\n\nS. aureus is spread through contact with a person infected or colonized with the organism, although contact does not necessarily mean you will become infected or colonized.  Simple hygiene (ie, handwashing) is most important to prevent transmission.  Because someone else in your family has a MRSA infection, does not mean you should not go near them.  Please continue to visit and associate with your family as you always have.  It sounds as if many people in your family have problems with Staphylococcal infection, and you have probably been exposed numerous times over.\n\nWhen does MRSA cause a problem?  Several host and bacterial factors determine when MRSA becomes pathogenic.  Some bacterial factors include the ability to produce certain toxins.  Host factors include defects in skin barrier or underlying immune suppression (such as the treatment of lupus, but not lupus itself).\n\nHow do you know if your infected? What can you do?  S. aureus typically causes skin and skin structure infections such as cellulitis and furunculosis (eg, boils).  Other infections such as pneumonia are much less common.  If you develop signs of skin inflammation, it IS important to report to your doctor about exposure to MRSA.  If antibiotics are required, knowledge of exposure to MRSA can assist with prescribing appropriate empiric therapy.  Lastly, if you (or your family members) experience problems with recurrent "Staph" infections, there are a few measures which may help decrease colonization (but does not guarantee elimination of colonization or prevent re-colonization).  These factors include: use of mupirocin (Bactroban) ointment applied within the nares twice daily for 7 days and intermittent use of chlorhexidine soap applied to whole body during showering or bathing (at least twice a week).  Other factors reported by some to help include: aggressive cleaning of clothes and bedding at the beginning of the above cycle and bleach baths (1/2 cup of bleach in a full tub of water, soak for 30 min once a week).
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I think maybe you're asking about MRSA.  Here is some info on it:\n\nhttp://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/communicable_diseases/en/mrsa.htm
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Possibly the antibiotic had the effect you describe. You should get in to see an OB/GYN. They can advise you on the cause and all/if any treatment.
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I would get a few different opions from actual doctors instead of us average joes. I wouldn't want you to do something even it's natural. Some people are allergic even if the baby isn't born yet if it harms you then it could harm the baby. Congrats!
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Registered Nurse Here; The pharmacist gave a 100% accurate answer.  I'm personally very glad to see a pharmacist on here, for a large amount of incorrect information is being given by some people.  Furthermore Health Care in today's society is very complex, and people should consider very carefully the accuracy of there information, prior to posting it. \nPharmacist, I have had 4 MRSA outbreaks since April of this year. Believe me it's taken it's toll on me.  I pray your correct that ones immune system will eventually take over, and recurrent episodes of MRSA don't just reoccur and reoccur.
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it's MRSA -- methcillin resistant staph aureus -- it's a bacterial infection that is resistant to one of the most potent anti-biotic, methcillin. you have to be hospitalized for this, but there is a cure. doctors now are using Vancomycin - IV for treatment of MRSA.
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Hi there...I'm not aware of any dangers but just let it runs its course.  Sometimes women need to be concerned when they get a virus early on, say in the first trimester.  But your baby is probably in a good stage and in good health so I would only do what you should always do with a virus.  Rest, and plenty of liquids.
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Absolutely! Babies can be born with a few different STDS and when they get old enough to have sex with someone, they can definitely pass it to one of their sex partners.\n\nBabies can be born with herpes if the mother has it. The babies usually get it while they are coming through the birth canal and the mother is currently having an outbreak. A lot of women with herpes chose to have a C-section to prevent the baby from getting it. Also, people can get cold sores (herpes simplex one) from being kissed by someone who has cold sores, or even sharing chap stick or lipstick with someone. They can be virgins and still get this. \n\nBabies can also be born with HIV if the mother has it. Since HIV can be transmitted through blood the baby can get this from the mother since they are connected with each other through the umbilical cord.\n\nThere are also STDS that can cause some serious health problems for pregnant women. \n\nIf Chlamydia is left untreated it can cause early miscarriage or premature birth.\n\nGonorrhea can cause life-threatening complications such as ectopic pregnancy (outside the womb) if left untreated.\n\nMothers can pass syphilis to their babies by touching the syphilis sores (chancres) and then touching the baby.