But if they get a cut or wound, the bacteria can enter the body and cause an infection. Staph bacteria can spread from person to person. They can also spread on objects, such as towels, clothing, door handles, athletic equipment, and remotes.
If you have staph and do not handle food properly when you are preparing it, you can also spread staph to others. Anyone can develop a staph infection, but certain people are at greater risk, including those who.
Your health care provider will do a physical exam and ask about your symptoms. Often, providers can tell if you have a staph skin infection by looking at it. To check for other types of staph infections, providers may do a culture , with a skin scraping, tissue sample, stool sample, or throat or nasal swabs.
There may be other tests, such as imaging tests , depending on the type of infection. Treatment for staph infections is antibiotics. Depending on the type of infection, you may get a cream, ointment, medicines to swallow , or intravenous IV. If you have an infected wound, your provider might drain it. Sometimes you may need surgery for bone infections. Some staph infections, such as MRSA methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus , are resistant to many antibiotics.
There are still certain antibiotics that can treat these infections. Urination and thirst are Major causes are diabetes and high blood pressure Drugs, such as corticosteroids, drugs that suppress the immune system immunosuppressants , or cancer chemotherapy. Many strains have developed resistance Antibiotic resistance Bacteria are microscopic, single-celled organisms. If carriers take antibiotics, the antibiotics kill the strains that are not resistant, leaving mainly the resistant strains.
These bacteria may then multiply, and if they cause infection, the infection is more difficult to treat. Whether the bacteria are resistant and which antibiotics they resist often depend on where people got the infection: in a hospital or other health care facility or outside of such a facility in the community. Because antibiotics are widely used in hospitals, hospital staff members commonly carry resistant strains.
When people are infected in a health care facility, the bacteria are usually resistant to several types of antibiotics, including almost all antibiotics that are related to penicillin called beta-lactam antibiotics Penicillins Penicillins are a subclass of antibiotics called beta-lactam antibiotics antibiotics that have a chemical structure called a beta-lactam ring. Carbapenems, cephalosporins, and monobactams Strains of bacteria that are resistant to almost all beta-lactam antibiotics are called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus MRSA.
Methicillin is a type of penicillin. MRSA strains are common when infection is acquired in a health care facility called hospital-acquired infection.
Some strains of MRSA cause infections that are acquired outside of a health care facility called community-acquired infection , including mild abscesses and skin infections.
The number of these community-acquired infections is increasing. Staphylococcal infections may be difficult to treat because many of the bacteria have developed resistance to antibiotics. Folliculitis Folliculitis Folliculitis and skin abscesses are pus-filled pockets in the skin resulting from bacterial infection. A hair root follicle is infected, causing a slightly painful, tiny pimple at the base of a hair.
Impetigo Impetigo and Ecthyma Impetigo is a superficial skin infection, caused by Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes, or both, that leads to the formation of scabby, yellow-crusted sores and, sometimes, small Impetigo may itch or hurt.
Abscesses Skin abscesses Folliculitis and skin abscesses are pus-filled pockets in the skin resulting from bacterial infection. Cellulitis Cellulitis Cellulitis is a spreading bacterial infection of the skin and the tissues immediately beneath the skin. This infection is most often caused by streptococci or staphylococci. Redness, pain, and Cellulitis spreads, causing pain and redness. Toxic epidermal necrolysis Stevens-Johnson Syndrome SJS and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis TEN Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis are two forms of the same life-threatening skin disease that cause rash, skin peeling, and sores on the mucous membranes.
See also Introduction Both lead to large-scale peeling of skin. Breast infections mastitis Breast Infection A breast infection mastitis can occur after delivery postpartum infection , usually during the first 6 weeks and almost always in women who are breastfeeding. If the baby is not positioned The area around the nipple is red and painful. The bacteria may then infect the nursing infant. Pneumonia often causes a high fever, shortness of breath, and a cough with sputum that may be tinged with blood.
Lung abscesses Abscess in the Lungs A lung abscess is a pus-filled cavity in the lung surrounded by inflamed tissue and caused by an infection. A lung abscess is usually caused by bacteria that normally live in the mouth and are They sometimes enlarge and involve the membranes around the lungs and sometimes cause pus to collect called an empyema Types of fluid Pleural effusion is the abnormal accumulation of fluid in the pleural space the area between the two layers of the thin membrane that covers the lungs.
Fluid can accumulate in the pleural These problems make breathing even more difficult. Bloodstream infection is a common cause of death in people with severe burns. Symptoms typically include a persistent high fever and sometimes shock. Section Navigation. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Syndicate.
You can help prevent infections and stop the spread of MRSA. Although most staph infections are not serious, S. Staphylococcus aureus Prescription Pad. On this page: Signs and symptoms of infection Duration of illness Transmission Complications More Fact sheets Signs and symptoms of infection Most infections caused by S.
Abscess Pocket of infection that forms at the site of injury. Usually filled with pus. Area surrounding the abscess is usually red, painful and swollen and the skin surrounding the abscess can feel warm to the touch. Cellulitis An infection of the underlying layers of the skin.
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