I contacted mrsa when I was in the hospital and I was wondering if I will always have it and can I pass it on?

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MRSA is extremely contageous! MRSA is an acronym for Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (and is sometimes referred to as MERSA), and it is an antibiotic resistant Superbug bacteria that grows in clusters, multiplies very rapidly and can cause many different kinds of infection, ranging from simple skin infections (boils, furuncles) to septicemia (infection of the bloodstream) and toxic shock syndrome, and is spreading rapidly in the United States and worldwide
Good hygiene is your best defense against MRSA. Wash your hands often, especially after being in contact with other people. Help the efforts to prevent antibiotic resistant bacteria by only using antibiotics when medically necessary, and by completing your whole course of treatment.

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No. If you regain your health and live at home and can stay off antibiotics for awhile, I'm sure it will go away. Resistant bacteria like that reside in hospitals and nursing homes, especially in very sick people who have had alot of antibiotics. These germs usually don't have any survival advantages over normal germs out in the real world, so they eventually get crowded out by other germs in your body over a few months. So, my advise is don't sweat it. Kiss your lucky stars you survived whatever it was that put you in hospital and try to stay off antibiotics if you don't absolutely need them.
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I am ER doc.

You may have had MRSA before you got to the hospital. A growing number of healthy people of all ages are now carrying this bacteria in/on their bodies. You normally have plenty of Staph (the same bacteria) around and it won't cause you to get sick normally. MRSA is a version of staph that is resistant to some antibiotics. So, if you should get a cut on your skin, it is possible for the Staph to get in and cause an infection. If you have MRSA, they would just need to use different antibiotics to treat the infection. Since SO many people have this bacteria now, they would probably use those stronger antibiotics anyway. The handwashing advice for keeping your friends/family from getting MRSA is not that useful. You frequently "share" bacteria from your skin with other members of your household anyway. If you are absolutely desparate to get rid of MRSA, there is an ointment called "Bactroban" that you can put in your nose to get rid of the MRSA. The disadvantage to doing this is that it might come back. My advice is just to leave it be. Practice good hygeine as you normally would and you need not worry about having MRSA.
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I am a registered pharmacist and pediatric/neonatal intensive care specialist

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