How do you get a staph infection in the blood without any signs of skin breakdown or sores?
I have a son age 5 who has been ill and had fever during the last 4 days now, along with a headache and stomach pain. I took him to the emergency room and they did some tests as a throat culture, chest radiograph, blood culture and lumbar puncture. Now, two days later I received a call from the hospital and say no bacteria growing in your blood, which started him on intravenous antibiotics and we have to go to hospital again tomorrow for another treatment of antibiotics intravenously. I understand the illness and treatment, but I have understood that the staph infection is the skin sores and skin infections, my son does has something wrong with your skin and is normally a very healthy child. Does anyone know how to get this type of infection. It was not really explained how it could have past and I was really shaken up about the news and not think to ask … Does anyone have any suggestions as to what might have caused this situation?
can get a positive blood culture everything from dental procedures (sometimes including simple tooth brushing), herpes, infections urinary tract infection or merely a bad your son could not fight. .. or a positive result could also be a false alarm caused by contamination of the skin. If you have two sets of positive blood cultures with the same bacteria, it is more likely that the bacteria found in the culture are the cause of their infection. If a set a game is positive and negative, could be an infection or contamination.
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