Healthy Living:Healthy Skin

What Staph Looks Like

A MRSA infection can start like this.

 
It can quickly become a pus-filled sore.

 
At that stage, it needs to be drained by a doctor.

 
MRSA pictures provided by VisualDxHealth and Peg McQueary

Last Updated: May 27, 2008
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  • christine jerrells

    If you have mrsa on your skin should the doctor lance it open for it to heal?

  • ad

    so a kid on my baseball team had the mrsa infection and i play hockey with him too and now i think i have it but it is in a bad stop i think….how should i tell my mom this and what should i do??????

  • Tina Powell

    My boyfriend, has little puss sores all over just his legs from the knee down worse on the right leg than the left, but it starting on the left leg, it is very painful, and red, Am i at risk of catching this? We live together, and can he lose his leg? He is also very stubnern about going to the Doctor or Hospital! If knows it is very bad I might be able to get him to go. Thank you,

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