1.Coming into contact with objects or people who are contaminated with MRSA or Staph bacteria. People can spread bacteria to you if they are infected or if they are a MRSA/Staph carrier. However, casual contact is usually not enough to cause an infection. To actually get infected usually requires step 2 below. 2.Passing the bacteria through your skin. An actual infection can only start after the bacteria get INSIDE your body. The most common ways these bacteria infect your skin include: - Through a puncture in your skin (cut, razor burn, scrape or needle puncture). - Through an existing cut or wound becoming contaminated with the bacteria. - By invading small openings in your skin like hair follicles (causing folliculitis). How do you catch Staph nose infections? Staph nose infections can start the same way as skin infections: through abrasions in the skin or though hair follicles. They can also occur after colds, flu or surgery when the nasal membranes are inflamed or damaged. Researchers aren’t entirely sure how nose infections get started, but they have found a protein that Staph aureus bacteria make which binds them to human skin cells1 (see “Are Staph living in your nose?”).
Posted on: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 16:31:03 +0000
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