More money.

I just spent 32 dollars to shampoo my carpet. I believe it is where Elliot sat and got MRSA on his bottom.

The bump on my sons backside.

Well this is it. I put manuka honey on it and covered it. He's also going to  be on septra and taking bleach baths. I'm trying my hardest to get this right. To make it go away.

Anyway, woke up this morning to him crying as usual. He also has conjunctivitis and a bad cough and some congestion.

Yep, dealing with MRSA, conjunctivitis, allergies and/or cold cough with congestion.

I had to put saline in his nose and suck it out with a nasal aspirator at 6am so he could breath.
He's actually acting pretty happy for a kid who has a bad cough and mrsa on his butt.

Manuka Honey for MRSA.

A dark, bitter kind of honey can cripple infection-causing bacteria, including the highly virulent strain known as MRSA, and now researchers think they know how the honey fights the superbug.

Manuka honey is made when honeybees primarily consume the nectar of the manuka bush, a flowering plant native to Australia and New Zealand

Researchers already knew that manuka honey has antibacterial properties, but why and how it works has been a mystery.

"Manuka honey has an extra [unidentified] component that isn't found in other honey, which gives it an extra kick," said study team member Rowena Jenkins of the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff.

"It may even be several components working together."

Honey Thief

In a new experiment, Jenkins and colleagues grew MRSA in the lab with and without manuka honey for four hours.

MRSA, or meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, is a type of staph infection that isn't affected by many common antibiotics.

(Related: "Drug-Resistant Staph Infection Spreads to Gyms, Day Care.")

The team also grew batches of MRSA with and without sugar syrup, to check whether the honey's high sugar content was solely responsible for fighting the bacteria.

In general, many bacteria can't grow in high-sugar environments, since the sugars tie up water that the bacteria need to survive. (Get more germ-filled facts with our infectious diseases quiz.)

Jenkins and colleagues found that the MRSA bacteria treated with manuka honey more often lacked a particular protein necessary for synthesizing fatty acids, which are required for building cell walls and internal structures.

The crippled bacteria "don't have the necessary proteins to complete their life cycles," Jenkins said, so they are unable to reproduce and eventually die.

Since the sugar syrup didn't have the same results, the researchers think some other, unidentified component must be disabling the bacteria.

Not Exactly on Store Shelves

Finding out more about manuka's mystery ingredient could lead to new treatments for drug-resistant bacteria strains, the study authors say.

Still, the researchers caution against treating wounds with commercially sold manuka honey.

Unlike medical-grade honey, store-bought honey is not sterilized and could contain microbes and spores that might make an infection worse, Jenkins said.

What MRSA does.

-No play time because he's always sick.
-No outside time for fear of bug bites turning into MRSA
-MRSA takes about 300-500 dollars of our money every 90 days.
-I have spent maybe almost 5000 dollars on MRSA since son was born.
-Lost my car trying to move to another state to get away from the living conditions we were in. Didn't work, car broke down had to return to horrible living conditions.
-Stress on my relationship with my husband, I wrongfully blame him when I am stressing.
-Thoughts of suicide to get out of this horrible situation.

My fight against MRSA.

Hey everybody, I decided to make this blog to track our fight, to talk to anyone who is experiencing what I am experiencing and to provide others with information that I have compiled about MRSA. So here's my story.

I got pregnant in Jan 2010 with my son Elliot, he was born on 10/3/10 at 4:32 PM.

By 7 days old he was hospitalized and released the next day. I get a call telling me he had MRSA cultured in his nose. This would be the beginning of my long battle with MRSA, something I had only heard of from people who worked in care homes. My sister had had it and it went away with vancomycin. She was working with the elderly but her's never came back after treatment.
That phone call from the Dr's office scared the living crap out of me, I was crying forever and spoke to the dr. She reassured me everyone had it in their nose.

My son turned 2 months and a bump popped up on his groin, he's hospitalized for 4 days and given many antibiotics and the dr gave us cream to put in his nose.

It goes away for 6 good months. During this time my husband has has it off and on, gets it all over all the time and has no health insurance so he suffers through it. We're OK as long as my son doesn't get it.
Well in March, my sons about 9 months he gets a stye in his eye and it grows.
Turns bad quickly, then we take him to the doctor who then hospitalizes him and a culture finds that it is MRSA. He's in the hospital for four days then comes home after having antibiotics and steroids.

It goes away and he's OK for about two months.
Then this comes alongs...

He also had it on his leg, again we do septra and cover it up.

He also gets it a month later on his back and then again on his chest, then leg again, chest again.and now today he has one on his buttocks.

Not sure if I am missing any episodes but that is what I remember for now.
Now we're here, I have tried everything. I have bought UV ray light that kills MRSA.
I have used manuka honey, turmeric, probiotics, hibiclens, I bathe him everyday, I change the bedding everyday, he does not reuse clothing, he does play in dirt and he does not eat much sugar.
Now we are trying bleach baths.