herpes zoster? or MRSA

somemom
Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:26:15 +0000

It could be staff that it not MRSA, but still persistant. my D had a staff infection on her chin from swimming in a nearby lake the doctor guessed- we saw it come back again and again, in the same spot at least 3-4 times and that is still the spot that still breaks out all the time. I think it is a persistant staph colony that just won’t go away, but seems to surface in times of stress and low immune response.

I suggest your son get obsessive with his washing, use a topical antibiotic and just really keep everything pristinely clean. That will only help once this passes, until then he might need oral antibiotics. they can also culture the sore and see if it is MRSA or something else.

A herpes cold sore would tend to tingle, itch, maybe tingle along the nerve pathways adjacent- ear, nose, lip, etc. I don’t know how shingles would feel, though it is generally an older person disease, it does hit kids. A friends of ours had it in middle school.