I have MRSA. Am I immune to antibiotics when I get a common infection such as strep throat?

Strep throat is an infection caused by a completely different bacteria streptococcus.

MRSA is multi resistant staphylococcus aureas. The term multi means that it is resistant to multiple different antibiotics, but since strep throat is a completely different organism it makes no difference. A staph infection can only be caused by the bacteria staphylococcus.

MRSA will not reduce the effectiveness of antibiotics fighting other organisms in the body.

MRSA is not an issue and 30- 40% of the population has MRSA on or in their body and this is not a problem. The problems start when yor bodies imune system is extremely weakenned and it takes hold.

Hospitals treat MRSA as a big deal because their are so many sick people with weak immune systems. But it is for the most part a completely normal bacteria that lives on and in us like many other bacteria.

I hope this helps?

Chris- Registered Nurse

If you get a sore throat or other sort of bacterial infection, the doctor will prescribe an antibiotic that is best for that certain type of infection. Just because you have had MRSA does not mean that it will always come up. If you're hospitalized, most likely they will test you to make sure you do not have an active case of MRSA at the time, especially if you're going in for surgery or whatnot.

Wow! I can't believe how many misconceptions there are about MRSA out there! MRSA is a type of Staphylococcus aureus that is resistant to a certain type of antibiotic which we used to use a lot of staphylococcal infections. Many, many people "have it" and it doesn't usually case them any harm - it's what we call a "colonizer".

The bug itself likely lives in your nose and your skin - these are the places it's likely to cause a problem if it does. People who are MRSA carriers can get recurrent boils and skin infections as well as boils in their nose. It does not cause strep throat. Having MRSA does not affect your ability to fiht off infections but your doctor will need to think about it if you get a skin infection. If you get strp throat, penicillin is still the drug of choice and ALL strep bacteria remain very sensitive to it. Remember it's the bug that becomes resistant to the antibiotic, not you!

You said you have it forever, which is not actually true. Some doctors, including myself, have had good success getting rid of MRSA from colonized people by treating them with a "decolonization" protocol. It is useful if people keep gettin boils or nose infections, or if they are often in the hospital and doctors want to avoid spreading it in the hospital.

For everybody else out there - please stop thinking that MRSA automatically either kills you or you get better! in some places in the states, >50% of people are carriers of the bug!

It depends on where you have/had MRSA. Usually MRSA is on the skin, you get a scratch or sore on the skin and the Staph. that naturally live on your skin get into the wound colonize and you develop the Methicillin resistant form. If you have taken the antibiotics and the wound is gone, you no longer have MRSA, you have HAD MRSA. If you get another wound on your skin, it may be MRSA again, and that will require special treatment. The other infections that you may get that require antibiotics, as long as they are not caused by Staph. will respond normally to treatment.

Um... if you have MRSA is your bloodstream you should be in the hospital for IV antibiotics. I think you got confused. If you are a MRSA carrier, you are probably carrying it in your nostrils, which is the normal place for staph infections to live.

MRSA means methicillin resistant staph aureus. Only the staph aureas bacteria is resistant to antibiotics. When you are infected with other bacteria, those bacteria will be sensitive to the antibiotics that treat them.

MRSA should not effect antibiotics for other infections. Since strep is streptococcus and not staph, you should be alright. Incidentally, how can you "have" MRSA? I thought it either killed you or you beat it.

be only concerned when you get a staff infection. over use of antibiotics results in viruses and the such becoming immune to them

You may have thyroid cancer, theres something wrong with your trachea, vista a doctor

http://www.link.med.ed.ac.uk/ridu/Mrsa.htm

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/mrsa/DS00735

I'm sorry I really don't know. But I hope you get better.