How to remove the Staph bacteria from an entire household?

Question

If a person has external Staph wound to were they can spread throughout your house, how do you remove the bacteria

Answer 1

You cannot entirely remove staphylcoccus from your house (there are at least 60 strains of staphylococcus).  In fact, staph lives in huge numbers on your skin, where it's generally harmless unless it gets into a cut or unless you're immunocompromised (i.e., HIV, undergoing chemotherapy).

A wound with staphylococcus should be diagnosed by a physician (the wound will be cultured to see what strain it is) and the physician should give treatment steps that would probably include oral and topical antibiotics.  The physician may recommend the dressing be changed on a regular schedule and that the person changing it wear gloves.  The gloves and dressing should be bagged and discarded.

This is all very general information and your true Answer may depend on what type of staph infection the person has.  Some types, such as the MRSA (drug-resistant staph) that has been in the media lately, can require more precautions.

Answer 2

Wash all the linen in hot water.  Do not drink out of the same glass, eat off the same plate.  If you have a dishwasher,  have that person put the dishes in there immediately after use.

Clean the bathroom that person uses with a good disinfectant , wash down the areas well, have them clean up the bathroom after a shower.

Have them keep the open wounds with Staph covered at all times and dispose of the band aids in a special container which goes directly in the garbage.