Information online is just not clear enough about this. There’s a lot of talk about washing hands but does washing your hands after touching an infected object/person actually PREVENT you from becoming a carrier? As in, can you just wash MRSA off should you get it on your hands? I started working in a care home with someone who has it and do NOT want to become a carrier by any means but it’s impossible for me not to touch anything at all.
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Staph aureus is a very common bacteria that lives on our skin and in our mouths/noses. It occasionally gets under the skin or other places it shouldn’t be, and causes infection.
MRSA is methicillin-resistant Staph aureus, basically regular Staph that has evolved to be resistant to a number of common antibiotics. In other ways, MRSA is still pretty much the same add the regular Staph that lives on all of us. You can wash it off your hands with soap or hand sanitizer. There are still antibiotics that can treat it.
There’s a lot of hype around MRSA being some ultra deadly super germ, but at the end of the day it’s just a pretty common bacteria that can tolerate certain classes of antibiotics.
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