Major Symptoms of a MRSA Infection

A MRSA infection shows the same symptoms of an ordinary staph infection, but the major difference which sets the two apart is MRSA's high degree of resistance to antibiotic treatments. All staph infections announce their arrival by small red bumps which appear on the outer layer of the skin. Most patients believe them to be normal acne pimples, which are usually taken care of by the immune system in the body of a healthy person.

Due to the resistance shown by immune systems in our bodies, most people who contract staph infection remain safe. It is estimated that about 25 percent of adults are infected by some form of staph bacteria. Children, elderly people and patients, who have weaker immune systems normally get infected with more dangerous strains of staph infections, and there symptoms further deteriorate than mere red bumps.

The first stage is the transformation of bumps into larger boils which are filled with pus. The patient starts to show signs of flu and may suffer from fever, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea and may feel pain in muscles and head. MRSA patients will feel constantly exhausted and energy-less, while the degree of these symptoms depends largely upon the nature of the infection and the way it was contracted. Most doctors tend to misinterpret these signs, and treat them like any other staph infection. If the red bumps on the skin of the patient are still small enough, this also leads to the doctor misdiagnosing MRSA infection.

Another reason why MRSA fails to get addressed in the initial stages is that the patient does not feel inclined to visit the doctor after apparently innocuous red pimples appear on his skin.

The symptoms of patients tend to get serious, if MRSA infection becomes the part of bloodstream getting access to the internal organs of the body. Patients start to suffer from severe diarrhea, meningitis, urinary tract infections and pneumonia. Some patients also complain of facing problems with breathing and digesting food. The major cause of this internal devastation is the direct assault launched by MRSA infection upon the immune system of the body.

Many patients also experience the concentration of the deadly MRSA infection in one of the limbs, and the only way out is to cut that part of the body, to save the rest of the organs. MRSA infections cannot be stopped from spreading with the treatment of standard antibiotics. The victims have to get hospitalized for an indefinite period, while their body has to go through tough and time-taking treatments, which further weaken his immune system, endangering his life.