Oral antibiotic options for treating skin and soft-tissue infections in patients with community-associated MRSA includeclindamycin, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole(TMP/SMX; Bactrim, Septra), a tetracycline (doxycycline or minocycline [Minocin]), and linezolid (Zyvox). How is MRSA treated in hospitals? In...
Ask your healthcare provider how to give an EpiPen shot the first time it is prescribed.When do you administer an EpiPen?You administer EpiPen or EpiPen Jr injection right away when there is an allergic emergency (anaphylaxis). For example, this might occur with peanut exposure, a bee ...
All staph infections should be further tested to see if the bacteria are resistant to the antibiotic methicillin (and otherantibiotics) and thus determine if the organisms are MRSA. This test is important as MRSAorganisms are resistant to many antibiotics usually prescribed for staph infections. What...