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Mrsa Contagious Pregnancy. I don t know much about mrsa but i wouod imagine if you didn t have any symptoms or open wounds you wouldn t be contagious. It is a more severe type of staph infection that can be problematic as it is resistant to most antibiotics that effectively treat staph infections. Some strains of mrsa are completely resistant to antibiotics. Unless you have an open wound you ll be fine xx.
So you could get mrsa by touching another person who has it on the skin. Mrsa is highly contagious and can be spread between individuals via skin to skin contact shared items such as towels or cups and common surfaces such as tables and counter tops. People with higher risk of mrsa infection are those with skin breaks scrapes cuts or surgical wounds or hospital patients with intravenous lines burns or skin ulcers in addition mrsa may infect people with weak immune systems infants the elderly people with diabetes or cancer or hiv infected individuals or people with chronic skin diseases eczema and psoriasis or chronic illnesses. It is best to prevent contracting mrsa during pregnancy. Mrsa is spread by contact. However many activities such as kissing saliva exchange and sexual contact although somewhat less likely to transfer mrsa to another can cause infection if the skin or mucosa is damaged.
Mrsa stands for methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus.
Mrsa is highly contagious and can be spread between individuals via skin to skin contact shared items such as towels or cups and common surfaces such as tables and counter tops. And in an infant it s very serious. See all replies 1 s. Or you could get it by touching objects that have the bacteria on them. Staphylococcus is a bacteria which normally lives on the surface of our bodies causing no harm or problem whatsoever. I don t know much about mrsa but i wouod imagine if you didn t have any symptoms or open wounds you wouldn t be contagious.