Re: Re: nasal colonisation

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Asfy,Thank you for that explanation. BredaFrom: asfy <asfyso@...>samters Sent: Wed, June 23, 2010 10:14:29 PMSubject: Re: nasal colonisation

Breda,

We all have germs nearly everywhere in the nose, and of various kinds. Like in the gut, healthy people have only good germs, or they do have bad germs, but these are being contained by the good germs and the immune system. For a number of reasons, this favourable germ population can change ; for instance, external bad germs can come in and set up colony, or residing bad germs can escape control, and this imbalanced flora may result in an infection - which is when bad germs multiply fast.

If your doctor said your husband has nasal staph, it is in all probability because he performed a nasal swab and a culture, which grew staph. Having staph in itself is not a synonym of permanent infection, but it increases the risk of infection if the staph easily grows out of control.

If the staph indeed increases the number of infections, it becomes necessary to get rid of it. To do that, an antibiogram is required - testing various antibiotics on the germ in a Petri dish to see which ones work best.

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> Asfy et al,

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> ould you please explain nasal colonisation. My husband has staph nasal colonisation (not mrsa thank god) but really dont understand how one would know and why it cant be removed.

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> Breda

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