Staffs disease?

Question:

My aunt was just diagnosed with staffs(sp?) disease, I don't really know anything about it and have never heard of it. So any information on it would be great! In case you need to know she just had hernia surgery in her stomach, she came home than about four days later she had 104 fever. She went into the hospital were they later said she had staffs disease. They sent her home but I guess shes still has it..? Thanks so much for helping me with this!!

Answers:
It's an infection caused by a bacteria called Staphylococcus aureus, and it sounds to me like she contracted it in the hospital (a nosocomial infection). Here is a link that will help you - there's just too much information on staph to list here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/staphylococ...

Are you sure it isn't a staph infection? If it is you did not say where the staph is, is it in her blood or in the surgical site? At any rate I hope they put her on the appropriate antibiotics, make sure she take it the way she is suppose to and for the amount of time the doctor says. You can go check out www.webmd.com for more information.

It's a "staph infection" named for the germ called staphylococcus. (You can see why they just call it staff.) Most staph infections are gotten IN THE HOSPITAL. It could be on the floor. My mom who was a nurse and her mother before her always told us NEVER to let your bare feet touch a hospital floor though, these days, nurses tend to kick slippers out of the way. It could be anywhere in the room. It generally happens in a wound. My mother got one in the hospital even with her slippers.

The ER sent her home because it's easily cured with antibiotics but you need to let someone in the hospital administration know that you know that she got it in their hospital. Use the spelling at the top to google it and maybe you can also present the hospital administration with the statistics of where a staph infection comes from. (At least you can put a good scare into them and you may have a case, if you want one.) I hope your aunt feels better.

Staff disease is basically a term any type of disease/infection that one catches from being in a hospital. It could have been perhaps exposure to a nurse that was around another contagious patient, or it can be caught a number of ways. unfortunately, that is the risk of being in a hospital. Every time I'm admitted I'm scared of catching one.

Your best bet is to ask your doctor.

Staph is often a nosocomial infection, which means it's aquired in the hospital. Contrary to what other people have said, Staph can be/ is deadly. Make sure she is being treated with strong antibiotics and other measures because it can/and will kill people no matter what the hospital says. The hospital will rely on the patient to be uneducated about these things and they think they can get away with it.

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