shawno821
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http://www.examiner.com/article/bra...rom-brown-recluse-spider-bite-a-night-prowler
Here's a link to the story.
Here's a link to the story.
Could you please clarify whom you are quoting? It's a bit confusing. Especially the "any of these reactions in a child, would greatly increase the immortality chances."""Most patients with CA-MRSA will present with a skin or soft-tissue infection. Clinicians should assume that any spider bite, large pimple, or boil is MRSA until they have evidence to the contrary."
"CA-MRSA typically causes skin and soft-tissue infections (Figure 1), often in young and otherwise healthy patients. These infections are typically easier to treat than HA-MRSA infections, but some patients with CA-MRSA develop such serious conditions as necrotizing pneumonia, disseminated invasive osteomyelitis, septic arthritis or endocarditis."
here in florida I have seen 4 MRSA infections, all 4 were blamed on brown recluse spiders, the only problem with that is recluse spiders do not live on peninsular Florida. I don't know if the purpose of these diagnosis is because of legal liabilities of the hospitals, but Everyone I've known that's had the infection, was told that it was a spider bite.
"necrotizing pneumonia, disseminated invasive osteomyelitis, septic arthritis or endocarditis.",,, any of these reactions in a child, would greatly increase the immortality chances.
PB
---------- Post added 12-17-2014 at 04:35 PM ----------
"Despite that ominous development, there has recently been encouraging news from the CDC that hospital-acquired MRSA (HA-MRSA) infections are decreasing.2 The number of invasive HA-MRSA infections dropped 28% between 2005 and 2008. Unfortunately, the same is not true of community-acquired MRSA (CA-MRSA) cases, which have risen rapidly in the past 10 years.2 Because MRSA is circulating widely in the general population, primary-care clinicians must be prepared to recognize it, treat it effectively and take steps to reduce its transmission."
"Many people mistake the first signs of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection for a spider bite. In fact, what appears as a small, red pimple could be the start of a potentially serious infection with a staphylococcus that is impervious to many antibiotics and poses an increasing threat in the community setting. "
PB
Excuse. I'm not accusing. I was just confused by the obvious miswording. I just posted something in this regard, 'Kid dies from..." and spider bites in general.http://www.clinicaladvisor.com/updated-information-on-mrsa-infections/article/218133/
If you run a search, you will find a landslide of information about MRSA.
"any of these reactions in a child, would greatly increase the immortality chances." - I mistyped,,, meant to say mortality,,,
---------- Post added 12-17-2014 at 06:25 PM ----------
"Any of these reactions in a child, would greatly increase the mortality chances.",,,,,,
this was not in quotations in my original post, this is my statement and it holds true. Bacterial (mrsa) infections in the elderly and the young take more of a toll. An elderly person or a young person with mrsa resulting in necrotizing pneumonia, disseminated invasive ostemyelitis, septic arthritis or endocarditis definitely have a higher chance of mortality.
PB
I'm sorry but that report from Jessica is, at best, highly dramatized. "Yelling" "For O-Neg blood" No. That's not remotely part of any code blue I've ever encountered or heard of. Whole blood TYPE request is written. The lab knows and decides the type. The actual verbal request is, according to P&P, JCAH, "Whole blood stat." Made by a physician.Generally I would agree that infections should be considered at least as likely, or more so, than necrosis from "a spider bite," if the culprit isn't seen. In this case, though, I don't think there's any reason to suspect MRSA or other bacterial agent as the cause of death. The boy felt that something had "stung" him on the shoulder. His mother found a spider IN his shirt seconds later, and killed it. They kept the spider. As to ID'ing the spider his mother killed on-site, the article I link to below has a photo of the actual spider in question. It is plainly a recluse spider. I think we have a good chain of evidence here to link that specific spider with the bite on the boy's shoulder.
The child's condition worsened so rapidly that I really doubt it could have been a Staph infection. He was dead in 14 hours. If you read the article describing the "descent to death," the nurses' comments on his symptoms are enlightening:
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2014/11/mom_describes_daylong_descent.html#comments
Quote from link given below:
"Mike Howell, a retired Samford University professor who co-authored "Spiders of the Eastern United States: A Photographic Guide," confirmed through the photographs that the spider that bit Branson was a brown recluse."
Also, Vetter has already chimed in:
http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2014/12/brown_recluse_spider_bite_deat.html#incart_related_stories
As freakishly rare as it may be, I think this "recluse bite" is actually legitimate.