MRSA

 I have located the following info that may assist your concerns. please see the following info and the source link below.

Staph bacteria and MRSA can spread among people having close contact with infected people. MRSA is almost always spread by direct physical contact, and not through the air. Spread may also occur through indirect contact by touching objects (i.e., towels, sheets, wound dressings, clothes, workout areas, sports equipment) contaminated by the infected skin of a person with MRSA or staph bacteria.

How can I prevent staph or MRSA infections?

Practice good hygiene

1. Keep your hands clean by washing thoroughly with soap and water

2. Keep cuts and abrasions clean and covered with a proper dressing (e.g., bandage) until healed

3. Avoid contact with other people’s wounds or material contaminated from wounds.

Hope this helps..Take care.

 

Source:http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/hip/Aresist/mrsafaq.htm

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is intimate contact safe? i.e. kissing, hugging, laying in the same bed, sex...

 

Further research suggests that MRSA is highly contagious. ... If you have safe sex with someone who is positive, you can easily contract MRSA through prolonged skin to skin contact with the infected individual. I am including for you another link with some more information on the disease.

http://www.thesahara.net/mrsa.htm

I hope this information may be beneficial, Best of care to you, and thank you again.

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will bathing w/ an antibacterial soap prevent the disesae from spreading after intercourse? im also wondering is MRSA pretty much a "sentence" for life from any sort of intimate contact? is there a safe way to do anything?

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im still unsure of what to do. should i just stay away from my new partener? is there a way that i can have a "normal" relationship w/o worrying every second of the day? someone pls help me...

 In a nut shell i would say the choice is up to you.. if you love this person there are percautions u can take to help yourself.. if this is a new relationship i would think twice about ur future with this person..being in the health field we protect ourselfs with masks and jackets and if your willing to go the extra mile.. i wish you the best.. unfourntaly i dont see a way to live a "normal" life with MRSA 

 

MRSA will be contracted by contact to the infected person (be it sexual, or skin contact).You can be a carrier of the disease and not have symptoms for years to come, but again, the risk and choice is yours for the making. It is a very serious disease, and I am sure a scary decision for you to be facing. I wish I could tell you something more you would like to hear, but I am stating the facts of the disease and the absolute possibility of you likely contracting it. If you research the disease you will see the facts to back what I have been telling you, I wish I could ease your mind, but I want to be as honest as I can with you, and the fact is, it's an awful situation to face.

I still wish you the best, and hope that things can work out for you. Take care.

u mention that there are precautions what r they? i t2 am in the medical field: dialysis. but i have never nor did i think that i ever would encounter MRSA on a personal level. is there a test that i can take to see if i have already contracted the disease by general touching?