Male Speaker: One of the scariest things going on with children today is MRSA Staph Infection that is resistance to most kinds of drugs today Doctor Joy Maxey is going to join us and we are going to discuss this particular disease and what can be done to stop it, so stay tune to Club House Gas.
Doctor Maxey Thank you so much fro joining us we really appreciate it.
Maxey: Thank you.
Male Speaker: Today I want to talk about a very serious topic something that is turn around and we seem to seen a lot more of it and that is MRSA a Staph infections first off what is a Staph infection?
Maxey: Well more Staph is which is what you hear on the TV when it is pronounced or MRSA stands for Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus a term I am sure you will be thrown around it you’re next cocktail party I see.
Male Speaker: Absolutely.
Maxey: But what that means in plain English is that it’s a Staph bacteria and the Staph bacteria over the last we’ve been seeing this really now for about 7 years has become increasingly resistant to most of the antibiotics that are out there for use and so it is a significant problem it is developed into sort of you might term super bug and so for instance when I started practice back instant age if a kid came in with the boil or the kid came in with the mitigo or the kid came in with some kind of sore no big deal you came him some penicillin or you give him some amoxicillin send him and they will be fine. Well then around the end of the 9 years beginning of 2000 why not it might not go away with that the amoxicillin we were having a used kind of stronger drugs and then back 2001, 2002 we knew that most of the Staph if infect was Staph was not sensitive to any of the penicillins hence the name Methicillin Resistant and many of the other drugs like surplus points which are drugs like Keflex and those sorts of names were not effective to get Staph what so ever no activity for they use to have activity and so we are become increasingly concerned and this is also why you here folks talk about being careful while using antibiotics in general. Because it is the over use and the injured this was diffuses if the antibiotics that is lead this circumstance.
Male Speaker: So the bug just can be evolves and get stronger.
Maxey: That’s why its like a voting so the bug is very clever and it sees these things in its weltering if I am going to survive I have to figure out away to over come this kind of like our world and so the bug makes various proteins things like plasmids and those sorts of things and this is what is the mechanism of resistance for these bacteria.
Male Speaker: So how to you get a Staph infection?
Maxey: Staph infections are interesting in that you can get them in one of several ways one is you can get them from yourself all lovers have Staph on your skin and there is several strains of Staph that are common skin contaminants and they level the skin they are part of the normal flow of the skin they’ve been there since as long as recorded history has known about bacteria and they are just there. So sometimes for reasons we don’t understand you can develop you own Staph infection other times we may understand because we get a cut we get a scrap we get some sort of injury to the skin and then while of we have this red swollen spot and often we start with the Staph infection again but from the own staph that we have on our own skin. The other ways we get it out from other people so other people have Staph on their skin or may be they have a Staph infection and they don’t know it and we come behind them on a piece of equipment at the gym or sharing a helmet or sharing some sort of piece of sports equipment with them while sharing towels with them and lowing behold we use that same piece of equipment and then we get the Staph infection but again often times its because there were some area that our body that had a scrap a cut and they came in contact with the Staph and so those are the common ways in which you would acquire Staph infection.
Male Speaker: Which makes sense when I got Staph infection when I was in high school there were 5 guys on the same team we all got them whether we could each other mine was in my head and I was keen a little more serious and that’s what we all got Staph infections at the same time and that it was also a bigger deal as it is now but what are some of the early symptoms for be with my head blown up like a balloon I like to get for a mask the hard to miss that one.
Maxey: It’s a sort of that things that you will notice are red spot that will come up on the skin and it gets larger and then it gets puffy and it gets you can press on it and it feels kind of fluidly that is one more classics or things like boils, abscess, anything of that nature sometimes they can look like little boosters on the skin or little Puzzles or little almost like pimples and it is not in area the body who you necessarily would have acne and then quiet look like acne and so if you see anything of that nature it is wise to seek a medical opinion and say it perhaps you may have a Staph infection .
Male Speaker: What you do you know for prevention?
Maxey: Prevention is the prevention for things like flu and every other kinds of contagious disease hand washing, hand washing, hand washing and your mothers advice that I know she gave do you can see quick picking your nose.
Male Speaker: Still my wife my wife owner --
Maxey: I am sure, I am sure it’s those sorts of things we put our fingers sometimes not even aware that we put our fingers in our nose in our mouth we bite our hand nail some thing itchiness so putting out hands to our nose and mouth and then not washing our hands frequently enough and especially after we beneath the gym or head contact with a lot of people or been in the circumstance for we might have been exposed.
Male Speaker: So I should carry a bottle of purell on my pocket.
Maxey: That’s a good question and this is actually a topic of controversy because there are some folks who wonder if may be a super clean environment has a contributed to the resistance of the Staph that we see. Surely good old soap and water works as well as anything but I think if you are on the run and its really you don’t have access to go get it soap in which our busy schedule we don’t and I am certainly fan of purell and low up doing nothing and so either you know the hand sanitizer or the hand wipes or something like that, that you can carry around with you I think is a good idea especially if you are an athlete participating in training or competitions.
Male Speaker: Doctor Maxey thank you once again we really appreciate it I have lost on these medical topics you have been wonderful. That’s good work for us today you folks are witness may be first the time I have heard the interviewee has told the interviewer to stop picking his noses. So I will pick you at next time for another great edition of Club House Gas.
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