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he symptoms of MRSA infection depend heavily on exactly where you've been infected on the body. Obviously correct diagnosis should be performed by a professional health expert to confirm your symptoms and the severity of your condition.

MRSA most often appears as a skin infection, like a boil or abscess. Most often, many people dismiss the early warning signs and symptoms, believing that it may only be a spider bite or pimple. It is always encouraged that you seek medical attention if you display any of the symptoms below. MRSA infections may also might infect a surgical wound. In either case, the area would look:

• Swollen
• Red
• Painful
• Pus filled

If staph or MRSA infects the lungs and causes pneumonia, you might have:

• Shortness of breath
• Fever
• Cough
• Chills

MRSA can cause many other symptoms since it can infect the urinary tract or the bloodstream.

Very rarely, staph can result in necrotizing fasciitis, or "flesh-eating" bacterial infections, however this is still possible without correct treatment. These are serious skin infections that spread very quickly and should receive medical attention as soon as possible. While frightening, necrotizing fasciitis caused by staph is rare. There have only been a handful of reported cases worldwide.

See your health care provider if you have signs of active infection. In most cases, MRSA is easily treated if treated in its early stages. But since MRSA infection can be serious or -- rarely -- fatal.

If you are already being treated for an infection, watch for signs that your medication isn't working. If you are taking an antibiotic, call your doctor if

• The infection is no better after three to four days of prescribed dosages
• The infection continues to worsen over time
• You develop a fever, or you show signs of flu like symptoms
• People who are ill or have a compromised immune system have a higher risk of getting serious MRSA infections. If you have a condition that lowers your immunity, call your doctor immediately if you think that you might have a staph or MRSA infection.
  

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