You need to see a doctor and get an antibiotic. Hand washing, change the dressing if it's a wound (ask the doctor HOW and what you should use), just use common sense good hygiene to help the staph resolve. But an antibiotic is your first necessity.
Staph infection is and infection caused by Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. You can get a staph infection usually from skin to skin contact. It is super common and finds its way in the body thru an open cut/break in your skin, mouth, nose, lungs etc. They commonly look like pus-producing boils, abscesses or blisters on the skin, many people mistake them for spider bites =S I found a great website that has LOOOADS of information about Staph infections and natural remedies to get ride of them!
http://www.staph-infection-resources.com/index-cj1.html
Yes, very. Especially the newer "resistant" staph infections. There are some strains of staph that cannot be treated with antibiotics. Staph infections can kill and staph infections that you encounter at hospitals are typically the most difficult to treat.
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Most lesions that patients view as "spider bites" have nothing to do with spiders, and are, in fact, staph infections.
Yes, there are over 30 different types of staph infections.
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antibiotics like cloxacillin
Steroid cream will not cure staph infection.
They are the leading cause of primary infections originating in hospitals (nosocomial infections) in the United States.
You need antibiotic's Go to the doctor.
Yes, but only by a vet.
staph infections