Staph infection

Normanmc

Well this was the last thing I was expecting...

My 2 week old baby boy has a staph infection.

Tuesday night during a diaper change I noticed a tiny blister on LOs inner thigh where the diaper rubs. I didn't think anything of it, just that it was from the diaper rubbing against his body. I brushed it off and knew we had a pedi appt in the morning and I would ask why it looked like that then. At the pedi office they looked at it and said just to be safe the have to run some test that wouldn't come back till Saturday and she prescribed us some antibiotic ointment and said to call of if it gets worse. I saw no change on Thursday so Dh and I gave LO a bath that night. Friday morning i woke up to change his diaper and there was TWO more blisters one above his penis and one on the other side of his inner thigh. I instantly started freaking out and knew right away this wasn't normal. We called the pedi and she told us to come in ASAP so we could run more test. As we had not got the 1st ones back yet. We went there and she told us he tested negitive for herpes and that it is a staph infection. Now they needed to test for MRSA and to see if it had reached his blood stream. Saturday morning came and the pedi called us and told us that he testest negitive for MRSA and it had not reached his blood. Thank god.
I could finally breath a little. I was so mad when I found out. Mad at myself for letting so many people hold him. The pedi said he could of caught it from anything. People can carry the infection and not even know. But the good news is that it's not that serious and we are to continue putting the antibiotic ointment on the blisters his noise and belly button and it will go away.

This is very scary I spent all day Friday cleaning and crying because I felt like this was somehow this was my fault. And I felt so bad for my LO. My Dh and I are just happy it's not serious and it is treatable.


Has this ever happened to anyone?

ho11yday

DS1 had a staph infection on and off from about 8 weeks+. We just used Bactroban every diaper change whenever his butt got that yellow rash. We haven't had an issue with it in a very long time.

We all have staph on our skin, so it is definitely not your fault. However it is scary when we don't know what's going on and it involves our baby.

MissLadyTay

It is not your fault. I recently read that every one of us has staph bacteria on our skin right now. Getting an infection from it is just random bad luck. Good for you for paying such close attention to your baby that you noticed it right away and sought treatment!

Normanmc

Thank you ladies. I guess when I hear staph infection I think of back in the day when the media made such a huge deal about people dying. I just automatically thought the worst. Thankfully it's not horrible and we caught it in time like you said. Thank you.

it's scary to think we all carry it! Iv never known anyone that's had an out break till now.