MRSA Staph Infection

Brayden had a pretty good night last night and slept about 10 hours straight, other then the nurses waking him up from time to time.

This morning the peditricain doctor came in and she said that the expander looks much better and he is healing.  She said that got another read on Brayden's culture and he came back having MRSA Staph infection.  She said that this infection is caused by a strain of staph bacteria that's become resistant to the antibiotics commonly used to treat ordinary staph infections. And this one they are limited on what they can actually give him. A lot of antibiotics they give him, won't work for MRSA.  So what does this mean? Well they currently have him on clindamyoin antibotic and his body is responding to it, which it shouldn't be with this type of infection.

Today they are calling in a infection specialists to come in and look at Brayden and see what he has to say.  They have called Dr. Bauer this morning and he said this is not uncommon with expanders, and he agrees to have the specialist come in and look at Brayden.  The thing with Brayden, he's not a normal case because he has these expanders in.  If he was a normal case he would have been sent home already, but they want to make sure he is better and that we can save these expanders and finish this round.

They are also waiting on another fluid culture that they did on Friday to see what the reading on that is and once they get the results on that, they will decide what is next.  The doctor did say he is getting closer to getting home soon, which is GREAT news!