Would it be dangerous for a person who has lupus to date someone who has MRSA?

I've met a wonderful man who is unfortunate enough to have contracted MRSA. He has explained to me how people treat him, sometimes. There is definitely prejudice out there among people with contagious conditions. And I don't want to be another person who treats him in such a manner.

However, I do have a legitimate concern about my own health. If I were a healthy person I wouldn't hesitate to date him, knowing that I just have to be extra cautious with hand-washing, etc.

But as I have lupus, and am on immunosuppresive drugs....I am wondering if this doesn't increase my risk of getting MRSA myself. And wouldn't such an illness make my system go totally berserk, possibly killing me?

I just don't know what to do. Please help advise and educate me. I really like this man.

First of all, America is that last place on earth that actually believes the body's immune system attacks itself. The rest of the world understands that it is INFECTION that causes these problems. To take immunosuppressant drugs is a choice you have to make based on education, not indoctrination. Do your homework and decide.

MRSA is becoming more and more prevalent due to Genetically Engineered Foods be promoted and consumed, larger and larger mercury body burdens that make bacteria resistant, and prescription drugs that have huge so called side effects on the body. The body's immunity is what stands between you and being dust in a couple weeks. Do you actually believe suppressing that is good? Have you ever known anyone that was deficient in drugs?

Did you know that corn plants are now registered by the FDA as an insecticide? Most of the corn plants are now genetically engineered and contain insecticide genes in each of the kernels. Yummy. When you eat the corn, you are eating the insecticide, just like the bugs it kills when the eat it. All the high fructose corn syrup contains this garbage. Still want to drink that soda? NOT. So you think you are NOT eating GMO foods? Think again. Thanks to the FDA that is run by mostly ex-Monsanto people, GMO foods are listed as SAFE so they do NOT require labeling! ! Only in the U.S. The rest of the world understands the problems and labels theirs.

3/4 of the body's immune system is from the intestinal flora. Taking just one antibiotic destroys those bacteria. Does that make sense to you? The medical community follows the allopathic philosophy of medicine and ignores the body's innate ability to heal. In fact, many of the drugs and therapies are directly counterintuitive to how the body heals, leaving it vulnerable and causing lots of doctor induced illnesses. Looking statistically at how we are doing against disease in today's modern medicine, it looks pretty dismal. In fact, the number one killer of Americans today is NOT disease, NOT cancer, NOT heart disease, NOT stroke, but prescription drugs, doctor induced illnesses and medical malpractice. Over 786,000 people died of this last year. Over 106,000 people died in hospitals from taking FDA approved, prescription drugs legally prescribed by doctors for the illness the people had. Compare that number of deaths to what happened in Iraq in a war zone and the fact that illegal drugs caused about 10,000 to 20,000 max deaths last year and ask yourself, "is our war on drugs aimed at the right people?" Anyone of those 106,000 people that died in that hospital room may have an opinion, but they have no voice in the matter now. And some people believe our government can manage a health care program? Yikes!

Lupus is a degenerative disease and you don't have to suffer with this. MRSA invades a body that is NOT healthy and with a weak immune system. If you focus on building health and not just treating symptoms with "MAKE BELIEVE HEALTH," your body has an innate intelligence that knows just what to do to make you healthy when you support good nutrition and are focused on health building, not drugs that damage the body. I recommend you see a practitioner that understands QRA testing and they can help you and your boy friend.

good luck to you

If he has MRSA it is good to know what you are dealing with rather than not knwo from someone. most persons with MRSA do not know they have it. Is it nasal contamination or some open wound?
what is the severity of the MRSA? probably treated
How immunosuppressed are you?

People with lupus are already at increased risk of infection.

Your immunosuppressive drugs increase that risk.

When we do get an infection we have a very hard time recovering.

The leading causes of death in lupus are uncontrolled infection and cardiovascular events.

Lupus patients are discouraged from getting weakened live vaccinations like the nasal spray flu vaccination. Purposely exposing yourself to the possibility of infection and one as treatment is MRSA doesn't make a lot of sense.

Your life is far to precious to put in the hands of a bunch of folks on yahoo. Call your rheumatologist.