MRSA Bed Bug Bite
MRSA is a dangerous bacteria usually acquired from hospital visits. It often happens when a person has a cut or bite, such as those you might find from bed bugs. It’s not the bite itself that causes the problem, it’s itching the bite and causing an infection that brings you to the hospital and eventually in contact with the MRSA Virus (although not really a virus, it’s a strain of bacteria Staphylococcus aureus).
When you catch MRSA and have not been in a hospital, such as a bed bug infested apartment complex, it’s called Community Associated MRSA or CA-MRSA for short.
What makes this bacteria so dangerous is its resistance to oxacillin, penicillin and amoxicillin and other antibiotics. This is how a few simple bed bug bites can turn into MRSA as in the picture below.
MRSA Bed Bug Bite
You can see that the bites started small, then the hand started to swell, then blisters and eventually the underlying skin begins to deteriorate; another bite that is prime for MRSA looks like the one on Lisa’s face below:
Looks like MRSA started from a bite
If you think you have this, then visit What Does MRSA look like.com and match up your bite to their pictures and learn about products to treat the infection.
The best treatment is preventative – when you have a bite from bed bugs or similar pests, make sure you keep the area clean, use an antibiotic ointments or gel and monitor the bite frequently to prevent infection and a hospital visit.
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Hi, the same thing happened to me where bed bug bites turned into mrsa boils. Ask the doc to swab the spots and send for analysis.
I was on many different antibiotics before any swab was taken – you have to ask for it to be taken. Its really frustrating that for a long time I was being treated for staff and not the mrsa, when a swab would have indicated the correct medicine that was required.
All the best.
Hi. My wife and I travel to mexico a year ago, we stayed there for two days at a not too nice hotel.both of us got several bed bug bites. my wife healed in about 2 or 3 weeks but I still have the condition but looks very bad, the itch is worst than when new. my doctor prescribed difrent kind of mouth taken antibiotics but nothing works.
Im a desesperate now.