Not sure if this'll help, but I did come across the EPA's list of cleaning products that were effective against MRSA awhile back:

http://epa.gov/oppad001/list_h_mrsa_vre.pdf

Now - this list is pretty big, and a lot of the cleaners listed are janitorial/commerical type products. However, there are two recognizable products (at least to me) on the list that anyone should be able to get, and they are:

Clorox 409-R
Lysol Brand Disinfectant Spray for Kitchen

Those were the only two products on the EPA's list that sounded at least somewhat familiar to me. The rest were all commercial-type products.

Anyway, just thought I'd share.

Hope you're feeling much better Mike. Hang in there!

Dr. Phil exposes MRSA treatment

... or lack thereof:

http://drphil.com/slideshows/slides...=4384&null=null

I saw another where a woman has had this for over a year. I have had it twice, once from the community? and once definitely from the hospital. In both cases I got over the staph in less than two months and it hasn't come back, I expect LC and immunity is why

My cuts still heal in two days while scrapes or bruises take about four. Sometime I still use Betadine or the newer mupirocin (Bactroban) and sometimes I don't-- it doesn't seem to make much difference. When I had staph even an untreated shaving nick would become infected.

I agree when you do get STAPH its very painful and frustrating to get it treated correctly at a clinic or hospital and it makes you feel sick all over due to its toxins.

Always keep wounds clean and covered if you go out in public

I had to watch this clip advertised as "Dr. Phil and a deadly virus, do you have it?"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090214...ic_resistance_1

Sea sponge shows promise as superbug antidote

By Julie Steenhuysen Julie Steenhuysen – Fri Feb 13, 7:21 pm ET

CHICAGO (Reuters) – A compound from a sea sponge was able to reverse antibiotic resistance in several strains of bacteria, making once-resistant strains succumb to readily available antibiotics, U.S. researchers said on Friday.

"We can resensitize these pathogenic bacteria to standard, current-generation antibiotics," said Peter Moeller of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hollings Marine Laboratory in Charleston, South Carolina.

Drug-resistant bacteria are a growing problem in hospitals worldwide, marked by the rise of superbugs such as methicillin-resistant Staphyloccus aureus, or MRSA. Such infections kill about 19,000 people a year in the United States.

Moeller, who is working with researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina and North Carolina State University, said the team noticed a sponge thriving in what was an otherwise dead coral reef.

"It begged the question how is it surviving when everything else is dying?" Moeller told reporters at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago. "This opened up a whole new arena for us."

The researchers began chopping the sponge into smaller and smaller bits to isolate the properties that helped the sponge thrive in hostile marine conditions.

The team found that these bits of sponge were able to repel bacterial biofilms -- a slimy substance bacteria form to help stick to surfaces.

"What we found is these (sponge) derivatives actually dispersed existing bacterial biofilms as well as inhibited production of subsequent bacterial biofilms," Moeller said.

"This is a very exciting result when you realize that 65 to 80 percent of all human pathogenic infections are based on biofilms," he added.

Moeller said the team tested the substance on some of the toughest pathogens, including MRSA.

They found when they mixed this sponge material in with an antibiotic, they were able to make several types of once-resistant bacteria sensitive to antibiotics.

Since the compounds are non-toxic, Moeller said the team is now working with a number of medical device companies to incorporate it into the plastic materials used to make devices like stents used to prop open diseased arteries or in intravenous lines used in critically ill patients. He declined to name the companies.

"The idea is that we could get rid of bacterial infections that are so common to them," Moeller said.

Eventually, he foresees a new class of "helper drugs" that could restore the potency of antibiotics that have lost the war to superbugs. "Getting it through FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) approval will take awhile," he said.

(Editing by Eric Beech)

My husband was diagnosed with MRSA today. He went in to Urgent Care on Sunday because a "pimple" on the front of his thigh was bothering him. The Dr.told him it was an abscess and drained it and recommended damp heat for 20min every hour. She said MRSA was going around and took a culture. Today they let him know what it was. In the past couple of days another "pimple" started on his arm by his elbow. He's been heat packing it too and today it started draining. The Dr. took a look at it also when he went in.

I guess it can happen out of the blue. But it's a little scary and frustrating. I'm making him use paper towels to dry his hands with in the bathroom after he changes his bandages and before he leaves it he has to wipe everything down with clorox wipes. To be one the safe side, I'm wiping everything down too when I go in.