Dear friend,

Thanks for posting your query.

The MRSA is a very resistant bug and a person can be a carrier for it. It should be meticulously treated.

I would need to know what all antibiotics have been used so far and for how long.

Where exactly on the face is the infection?

Is it a boil or spreading redness, swelling?

The symptoms would depend on that. Earache could be a referred pain or an actual infection if there is also difficulty hearing, a lesion on or in the ear, discharge, pain, retracted eardrum feel etc.

Do you feel any nausea?

We use linezolid (oral or IV), vancomycin, teicoplanin (both IV), rarely daptomycin, rifampicin for MRSA. doxycycline or minocycline is not our first choice.

In case of troublesome MRSA (resistant), we may use a 2-drug combination- one killer and one inhibitor etc.

In addition, we have to eradicate the carrier state or any undrained pus collection for it to be treated well. We do use mupirocin cream locally and in the nostrils for carrier state. The course needs to be completed adequately, at least 2 weeks depending on the extent.

I would advise to consult your doctor again or consult an IDC (infectious disease consultant) for recurrent MRSA.

Treatment is possible if correct drugs and durations are used.

If could upload a photo of any of your lesions, it would immensely help. You have a feature to upload the reports / image by yourself at the right side of the query page, please utilize that so that I can answer your queries better.

Headache, blurred vision could be warning signs, and not to be neglected. Occasionally infection could spread to the brain/ skull cavity and would pose danger.

I hope to have answered your query satisfactorily.
Take care and please keep me informed of your progress.
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Thanks for reverting with more information.

I suppose that it was a culture/ lab proven staph. (MRSA).
have you any culture reports telling the sensitivity profile?

Pl. refer to my answer above.
For such resistant infection, you will need thorough work up.
It is common in diabetics, in people with impaired immunity like HIV, other immune deficiency conditions, post-viral lesions etc.

You should make sure you do not have those.
As I advised, a consultation with an infectious disease consultant would help.
Linezolid/ rifampicin in combination with a cidal drug like teicoplanin,or daptomycin are additional drugs for MRSA. most are IV.
Linezolid / rifampicin are orally available.
We use Linezolid as a common oral drug for MRSA and teicoplanin as iv choice, sometimes rifampicin in addition.

If you upload a photo of your lesions , it would help better.

Please get a thorough medical check up including above tests, HIV tests (if felt appropriate by your doctor), a culture sensitivity of pus from lesions (if not done recently), basic blood tests, Xray chest, testing for diabetes.

I hope this helps.
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