The Kid’s Doctor: Spider Bite or MRSA?
Many supposed insect bites are instead due to a MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staph Aureus) bacterial infection of the skin and soft tissue. CREDIT: Fotolia.com.
By Sue Hubbard, M.D.
Tribune Media Services
www.kidsdr.com
While walking down the hallway in my office, I kept hearing patients expressing concern about a “spider bite.” But how many spiders could there be out there, I wondered, especially in early spring? Also, these “spider bites” seemed to occur in weird places – a baby’s bottom, the inner thigh, the palm of the hand. In most cases, a patient never saw the offending spider.
By Dr. Daneen Skube
Children who don’t read over the course of two or three summers will fall behind their peers by a year in reading development.
Photo by Kristi Taylor
Giving Back: Justin Ingram (pictured above) and his sister, Alayne Ingram, former Lansing area basketball standouts return to hold a local basketball camp. Courtesy photo.
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