I need some advice you guys I'm at my whits end?

ok my daughter is twelve and she has had problems with her ears since she was 4 she has had five sets of tubes and reconstructive surgery on her right ear where her ear drum collapsed.about two weeks ago we went to the ENT and they told us she had bad ear infection in both ears they did a culture and found out she had mrsa in her ears they changed her antibiotic to bactrum this was on a thursday and by saturday night it wasnt any better so we took her to the er and they put an iv and started a stronger antibiotic called vandimicine well sunday they said to call her regular ent and they seen her and said to leave her on the bactrum and they thought it would clear it up so a week later the back of her ears still hurt not as bad and now she has a spot in her cheek it feels like a marble you can move it around and they are saying it is a lymp node and they put her on another antibiotic cause they said it was an infection somewhere in her body but couldnt tell me where she is suppose to go in for surgery the 30th of this month for another set of tubes but they dont even know if the mrsa is clear or what is causing the infection or for that matter where it is what should i doI need some advice you guys I'm at my whits end?
This is not a dental question, but I will try to help. MRSA is a very serious infection, maybe the most serious of the staph-type infections. Fortunately, children seem to do better in terms of recovery than adults. Your daughter is fortunate in that regard.





My advice to you is to forget about tubes for now. Focus on the MRSA and get that cleared up. I hope you have more than one doctor on her case. If it were my daughter, I would want to make sure that an infectious disease specialist is working alongside the ENT. MRSA is primarily a skin (or tissue) infection, and while it is the ENT's part of the body, it is the infection that matters as much or more than where it happens to be located.





If you want some scientific information about the disease, look at the Sources. The first may be a little easier to understand than the second.