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What Causes Facial Staph With Pseudomonas With Suspicious Impetigo?

My nose was cultured recently and it came back positive with heavy pseudomonas putida. Months before, my face was tested positive for staff a and mild psedomonas. On clindomyicin and have tried leviquin, doxyclince, etc. Also, have reoccuring (highly suspcious impentigo). I am a healthy 35 yr old female who works quite a bit in hospitals and believe I picked this up in a neonatal ward. I do have an infectious disease doc appt this week and have seen him once. Other than "rare in adults, atypical, interesting, uncommon" comments by my GP, allergistm, and infection disease doc-it is very puzzling. What perspective can you offer?
Tue, 17 May 2016
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Thanks for posting your query to health care magic.
As I understand you had repeted infection on face.
Staphylococcus and Pseudomonas both are common organism found in hospital environment , so may be possible to get t infection from there .
As your nose shows Staphylococcus indicate that you are a carrier of this organism .but it dosent indicate infection by this organism .
second thing the effective drug for treating nasal Staphylococcus is MUPIROCIN in ointment form .so you can use this to get rid from carrier state .
For pseudomonas you need to investigated culure and sensitivity and on the basis of that take treatment under guidence of surgeon .
One more important thing to investigate your blood sugar level to rule out Diabetes as it is favorable for such kind infection .
thank you .
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What Causes Facial Staph With Pseudomonas With Suspicious Impetigo?

Thanks for posting your query to health care magic. As I understand you had repeted infection on face. Staphylococcus and Pseudomonas both are common organism found in hospital environment , so may be possible to get t infection from there . As your nose shows Staphylococcus indicate that you are a carrier of this organism .but it dosent indicate infection by this organism . second thing the effective drug for treating nasal Staphylococcus is MUPIROCIN in ointment form .so you can use this to get rid from carrier state . For pseudomonas you need to investigated culure and sensitivity and on the basis of that take treatment under guidence of surgeon . One more important thing to investigate your blood sugar level to rule out Diabetes as it is favorable for such kind infection . thank you .