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.
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.
yes
Most lesions that patients view as "spider bites" have nothing to do with spiders, and are, in fact, staph infections.
yes
yes
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.
Yes, but only by a vet.
You need antibiotic's Go to the doctor.
Typically, Bactroban nasal
staph infections