Staph Infection (Staphylococcus Aureus)


Community-associated MRSA infections usually affect the skin, causing pimples and boils in otherwise healthy people. Infected areas may be red, swollen, painful, and have pus or other drainage.

What Is a Staph Infection?

Staph infection facts
• Staphylococcus (sometimes called "staph" is a group of bacteria that can cause a multitude of diseases.
• Staph infections may cause disease due to direct infection or due to the production of toxins by the bacteria. Boils, impetigo, food poisoning, cellulitis, and toxic shock syndrome are all examples of diseases that can be caused by Staphylococcus.
• Symptoms and signs of a localized staph infection include a collection of pus, such as a boil, furuncle, or abscess. The area is typically tender or painful and may be reddened and swollen.
• Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, known as MRSA, is a type of Staphylococcus aureus that is resistant to the antibiotic methicillin and other drugs in this class.
• Staph infections are treated with topical, oral, or intravenous antibiotics, depending upon the type of infection.

Staph infections can range from minor skin problems to endocarditis, a life-threatening infection of the inner lining of your heart (endocardium). As a result, signs and symptoms of staph infections vary widely, depending on the location and severity of the infection.

1. Skin infections
Skin infections caused by staph bacteria include:
• Boils. The most common type of staph infection is the boil, a pocket of pus that develops in a hair follicle or oil gland. The skin over the infected area usually becomes red and swollen.
If a boil breaks open, it will probably drain pus. Boils occur most often under the arms or around the groin or buttocks.
• Impetigo. This contagious, often painful rash can be caused by staph bacteria. Impetigo usually features large blisters that may ooze fluid and develop a honey-colored crust.
• Cellulitis. Cellulitis — an infection of the deeper layers of skin — causes skin redness and swelling on the surface of your skin. Sores (ulcers) or areas of oozing discharge may develop, too. Cellulitis occurs most often in the lower legs and feet.
• Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome. Toxins produced as a result of a staph infection may lead to staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome. Affecting mostly newborns and children, this condition features fever, a rash and sometimes blisters. When the blisters break, the top layer of skin comes off — leaving a red, raw surface that looks like a burn.

2. Food poisoning
Staph bacteria are one of the most common causes of food poisoning. Symptoms come on quickly, usually within hours of eating a contaminated food. Symptoms usually disappear quickly, too, often lasting just half a day.
A staph infection in food usually doesn't cause a fever. Signs and symptoms you can expect with this type of staph infection include:
• Nausea and vomiting
• Diarrhea
• Dehydration
• Low blood pressure

3. Bacteremia
Also known as blood poisoning, bacteremia occurs when staph bacteria enter a person's bloodstream. A fever and low blood pressure are signs of bacteremia. The bacteria can travel to locations deep within your body, to produce infections affecting:
• Internal organs, such as your brain, heart or lungs
• Bones and muscles
• Surgically implanted devices, such as artificial joints or cardiac pacemakers

4. Toxic shock syndrome
This life-threatening condition results from toxins produced by some strains of staph bacteria and has been linked to the use of certain types of tampons, skin wounds and surgery. It usually develops suddenly with:
• A high fever
• Nausea and vomiting
• A rash on your palms and soles that resembles sunburn
• Confusion
• Muscle aches
• Diarrhea
• Abdominal pain

5. Septic arthritis
Septic arthritis is often caused by a staph infection. The bacteria often target the knees, but other joints can be affected, including your ankle, hip, wrist, elbow, shoulder or spine. Signs and symptoms may include:
• Joint swelling
• Severe pain in the affected joint
• Fever

If you have pneumonia, you may develop a cough. Staphylococcus are separated by the ability to produce coagulase, an enzyme that can clot blood. Staphylococcus species that are coagulase-negative produce slime that interferes with immune defenses.


You want to ask - How Does Someone Get a Staph Infection?

Almost any organ system can be infected by S. aureus.
S. aureus strains first infect the skin and its structures (for example, sebaceous glands, hair follicles) or invade damaged skin (cuts, abrasions). Unfortunately, these bacteria can reach the bloodstream (bacteremia) and end up in many different body sites, causing infections (wound infections, abscesses, osteomyelitis, endocarditis, pneumonia) that may cause severe harm or even be fatal.

Staphylococcal infections are usually caused by the organism Staphylococcus aureus.

Duration of illness
• Some people can be colonized with S. aureus and never get an infection.
• For those people who do get an infection, the time from exposure to development of disease can be from days to years.
• Many common skin infections caused by S. aureus will heal without medical treatment.
• However, some skin infections will require incision and drainage of the infected site and some infections may require antibiotics.
• Most skin infections will heal within a few weeks.
• More serious skin infections can take longer to heal if treatment is delayed or if ineffective treatment is given.
• Some serious S. aureus infections (such as pneumonia or bloodstream infections) typically require hospitalization and treatment with intravenous antibiotics.


HAVE YOU EVER EXPERIENCED ANY OF THESE SYMPTOMS? OR PRESENTLY SUFFERING ANY OF THESE LISTS BELOW?
1. Itchness in private parts
2. Stomach noise
3. Skin rashes
4. Frequent urinating
5. Hotness of body always
6. Headache and malaria/typhoid
7. Waist pains
8. Back pains and bone marrow pains
9. Joints pains
10. Frequent sweating
11. Discharge from woman's vagina (some whitish or mucous like substance)
12. Blood stooling and urinating
13. Light bolis
14. Moving sensations around the body
15. Painful sexual intercourse
16. Sexual inadequacies of all sorts
17. As a man, you can only last for one round of sex with your wife
18. Loss of sexual urge
19. Zero sperm count, premature ejaculation and/or purse from your manhood
20. Blockage of woman fallopian tube
21. Scanty menstarual period
22. Infertility in both men and women


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