What’s the treatment for staph infection?
Antibiotics are used to treat these infections but there’s been a gradual change in how well these antibiotics work. While most staph infections used to be treatable with penicillin, that changed in the 1980s and stronger antibiotics are now used. In about 50% of cases, however, resistance is being seen to even these stronger antibiotics. This is not just happening in hospitals, as once was the case, but is now being seen in the general community. Many doctors are accustomed to using certain antibiotics, but those then fail because of antibiotic resistance. There are now several more potent antibiotics but doctors need to know when to use them. Another treatment is sometimes used for staph infections; if the infection goes so deep that it involves muscles, or the fibres that enclose muscles, it will need to be surgically cleaned.
