Mom colonized with M.R.S.A., safe to bring daughter around?

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My mom has recently spent a good deal of time in the hospital for lung issues. She was in a nursing/rehab center and caught pneumonia and was admitted to the ICU at our local hospital, she was placed on isolation due to MRSA colonization, she was then transfered to another facility for ventilator weaning and they tested her and she came up negative and taken off isolation, she was then moved yet again and found to be negative at her rehab facility. She went home and ended up with pneumonia and went back to the first hospital (our local hospital) and they put her back on isolation because they said she was positive and that they would be concerned about the other places testing procedures if they said she was negative. Sorry I'm rambling, either way she is back at home now, and we are concerned because I have a 2 year old daughter, is it safe to bring her around my mom?

Kayla · Accepted Answer

If by colonized you mean she simply carries it in her nose, where most people test for it and carry it, then you can bring your child around her. If you mean it was found to be the source of her pneumonia and she is still sick, then as someone else already stated, she should wear a mask and you need to find out from her physician. At the hospital I work at, we isolate anyone with a history of MRSA in the last 12 months, even just those that carry it in their nose, which is more common than you think.

? · Answer

If your mom still has active MRSA in her lungs she could pass it through her airway- coughing sneezing etc. It is airborne when present in the lungs and she should wear a mask.If she has been successfully treated and cleared then she is not contagious. This is something that she needs to have clarified with her physician before you visit.

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Mom colonized with M.R.S.A., safe to bring daughter around?

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