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Staph Infection Symptoms

Posted By: Saiera Hilton | Posted On: 2008-08-27 | Article ID: 88853

Staph infection, also called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection, is an infection with a strain of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria that is immune to commonly used antibiotics like methicillin as well as others, such as amoxicillin and penicillin. Typically, you can get this infection in hospitals and healthcare facilities, however, it can also be acquired by anyone in the general community.

The symptoms of a staph infection usually include skin infections. A staph infection can cause symptoms such as a boil, cellulitis, folliculitis, impetigo, styes, and paronychia. A boil, also called a furuncle, looks similar to an enlarged pimple and is filled with pus. Cellulitis is a skin infection that will cause red skin that is painful and often warm. Folliculitis is when a hair follicle becomes infected. Impetigo causes crusted lesions on the skin and is a blister. A stye is an infection of the glands in the eyelid. Styes look like red bumps on the eyelid. Paronychia is an infection of the skin around the nail.

Sometimes the bacteria remain confined to the skin, but they can also burrow into the body causing life-threatening infections such as pneumonia, bloodstream infections, or surgical wound infections. Symptoms of a more serious staph infection may include:

Rash
Shortness of breath
Fever
Chills

Symptoms and signs of acute glomerulonephritis are often vague and ill-defined. On the other hand, symptoms associated with pyelonephritis are often acute with fever, chills, back ache, and nausea.

Furuncles (boils) and carbuncles, white-headed pimples around hair follicles.
Blistering and peeling skin, in infants and young children.
Swollen lymph nodes in the neck, armpits or groin.

Staph infection symptoms are caused by the bacteria (Staphlococcus aureus) and are varied depending on the site/region of infection.

The bacterium may infect regions of the skin/epidermis in different areas of the body as well entering the bloodstream and infecting organs such as the lungs, heart, and bones.

These infections can become worse in some patients if left untreated, causing redness, swelling, and pus just below the skin’s surface (cellulitis).

Sometimes staph infections can be severe, especially when the bacteria gets into the bloodstream (bacteremia). It has also been known to cause surgical site infections and pneumonia.

Most staph infections that are visible usually have a reddish, swollen, and tender area at the site of infection. Often the site oozes pus or has some crusty covering with drainage. Sites of infection can be small like a pimple or large like a carbuncle. Cellulitis often shows redness and swelling without pus, but impetigo shows a crusty weeping rash with an occasional blister. Scalded skin syndrome shows extensive skin redness with bullae (fluid- or pus-filled blisters).

MRSA is a flesh eating bacteria, affecting mostly the skin. It causes rashes, abscesses, deep tissue infections, and can even lead to cellulitis or fatal pneumonia. It’s normally contracted through cuts, blisters, burns, insect bites, surgical wounds, or cracks in the skin. Long-lasting infections from minor cuts or burns can indicate the presence of MRSA, or rapid infection growth.

 

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