Protect Your Kids from MRSA

The CDC has launched a new campaign to protect kids from skin infections.  According to the CDC, MRSA is a type of staph bacteria that’s resistant to certain antibiotics.  It can cause severe infections in people in hospitals and other care facilities, and can also cause skin infections in healthy people who haven’t recently been hospitalized.

MRSA is spread through:

• direct contact with an infection
• sharing towels & razors that have touched infected skin
• touching surfaces contaminated by MRSA

The signs and symptoms of MRSA skin infections appear as a bump or infected area on the skin that may be red, swollen, painful, warm to the touch, or contain pus or other drainage.  Fever can also be a symptom.

So, please help your kiddos keep those cuts and scrapes clean and covered with a bandage.  And wash those hands!  If your child develops any of these symptoms, please contact your doctor to get the proper treatment.