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"As you may remember, Alex and I contracted MRSA from the hospital where he was born. We had a really tough time with all the infections that followed and they seemed to linger&amp;amp;#8212;even at his one year birthday, Alex had a breakout. Well, I&amp;#x27;m now thinking of having another baby and I really wanted to be MRSA free before that day. And we may be.... About four months ago, we did our &amp;quot;decolonization.&amp;quot; We scrubbed with weird soap and washed all our sheets, towels/blankets/etc. twice in one week and rubbed bacteria-killing ointment up our noses. Did it work? I don&amp;#x27;t know. No one really does (testing for it doesn&amp;#x27;t make sense unless you have an active infection). The doc said if we made it six months without an outbreak then it was a pretty good sign we were clear. We&amp;#x27;ve had no issues so far, but it&amp;#x27;s only been four months.... And while our strain does not appear to be the dangerous kind, there are really scary things that can happen with MRSA&amp;amp;#8212;check out Vitamin G today for more on that. And to be honest, the months and months of dealing with it sucked. And I don&amp;#x27;t want to go through that again. But should I really worry about this? Is MRSA that serious? Sarah also posted about a woman who wanted to have a home birth to avoid potential exposure to MRSA in a hospital. While I would not go that far, I am concerned...thoughts? Also, here are some good tips to stay MRSA free! P.S., Add Glamour.com to your Google Homepage! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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