Comments on: NYC Health Department Says 7th Grader Died Possibly From MRSA

By: tomim tihye

tomim tihye — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:04:26 +0000

Parents! Please teach your kids to wash with soap every time they use the bathroom! When my children’s friends use the bathroom in my home, I always ask, “Did you use soap?” (The kids are young.) Most of the time, the answer is NO! (I make them go back and use soap. Once, I actually had to show a kid how.)

By: Flatbush Bubby

Flatbush Bubby — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:49:28 +0000

I say that the Health Departments should go to all the Mosdos and give a presentation the likes that the Rebbes, teachers, principals, administrators, and children have never seen. And tell the parents to be after all of them to fix and/or install hot water in all their sinks so the students are able to wash their hands normally!

By: truth4ruth

truth4ruth — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:17:21 +0000

My 2 1/2 year old contracted MRSA this year (in Lkwd). When I dropped him off at playgroup in the morning he was fine. By that afternoon, his chin looked longer and swollen/hard/red. My pediatrician started him immediately on antibiotics (thinking he had swollen lymph nodes), but it was worse in the morning. I ran to a specialist who diagnosed it on the spot as MRSA (Staph that’s resistant to penicillin) and was able to aggressively treat it w/o hospitalization since it was caught in the very early stages. He had NO open wound at all. B”H within a week he was back to normal, but the disease is so fast moving it’s frightening.

By: aploni1

aploni1 — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:59:35 +0000

“Fellow IS 211 student Andrew McKenzie, 13, said that two weeks ago Omar “showed me these red and yellow sores on his legs and back. They were bad sores. I told him to go see the school nurse. I don’t know if he ever did.” nypost.com

By: aploni1

aploni1 — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:47:27 +0000

I heard this kid’s parents didn’t take him to the hospital right away when they noticed the sore. Wash your hands everybody!

By: YaakovKuperman

YaakovKuperman — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:57:23 +0000

Thank you for posting an article with clear, concise instructions on how to avoid infection. Most of the other news reports I’ve read on this disease just keep yammering about how it’s dangerous and scary and whatever, but don’t actually convey any clear methods to prevent infection.