• Mosquitoes, bug bites and MRSA in Jamaica

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  Oct 22
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  I had people ask me about my bug bites in Jamaica and what they could do to prevent the nasty infections I got. I’ll say that this summer was the worse I have ever seen bugs and mosquitoes in Negril and they really did eat us up horribly. My youngest son Robby has some scarring on his legs much like some of the older street hustlers around here and its sad really. I’m hoping he’s young enough he grows out of them but i fear he’ll have some long term marking. We all got bitten by mosquitoes but he got it the worse I think.

  I’m beginning to believe I had a MRSA infection that made my bug bites worse because I began to notice that they took weeks to heal when it should have been much less. Kinda scary I may have had a deadly infection and thought it was fricking bug bites but the article below just about seals it for me. I treated my own wounds by lancing and draining, I thought they were spider bites but found no spiders, we had multiple infections in the family and it was not just me with infected bug bites.

  I wiped some ants off my foot one day and watched the ant bite my finger before it exploded into a huge mess of infection basically before my eyes. It swelled up double my regular finger size in an hour. I lanced and drained it but I had to go back to Negril Medical Center to have them scrub it and disinfect me. I ran a course of antibiotics which I hate to do but it cleared me right up.

  I have over twenty hours worth of tattoo work on my body, at one time or another I have pierced both ears, my eyebrow and my nipple and all of that combined was not as painful as the bite on my finger. I honestly was scared I would lose my finger for the necrotizing effect the infection had and the pain was unbearable. It grew from the inside out with intense pressure I was forced to swallow two Percocets a night for a week to sleep through the pain and once again I hate the chemicals or any prescribed medications. I was given the pills by an American friend who brought them with, you can’t find that in a drug store. Add pain meds and maybe even a good antibiotic to your list of things to bring if you plan to travel here in the summer.

  ABC News: When MRSA Gets Personal
  
  

  When Mr. Wilson (name changed to protect confidentiality) arrived at the emergency department at the James A. Haley Veterans Hospital in Tampa, Fla., one night in October, he had a common complaint.

  “I think I’ve gotten bitten by a spider,” he said. On his thigh, several large raised skin lesions were visible.

  “These aren’t spider bites,” his physician, Dr. Yvonne Dunn, remarked. “You have a skin infection called community-acquired MRSA. Your boils will need to be opened and drained, but with proper care, you should be OK.”

  The patient listened intently. “Just my luck,” he said.

  What Is MRSA?

  Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most common germs we encounter each day. It is a normal (and usually harmless) germ on our skin and in our nose.

  Infections may occur when the organisms get into the body through breaks in the skin (such as cuts, scrapes, open wounds, surgical incisions or catheters in a person’s vein) and multiply rapidly. MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. MRSA is a more resistant form of the germ that has become a serious cause of human infections in the hospital, and recently, in the community.

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