Topic : 04/01 The Superbug

Once one has MRSA, it can be deadly and I wouldn't risk treating it with oils. My spouse had MRSA last year and had five surgeries and multiple hospital stays and 7 weeks on vanco (one trip a day to the infusion clinic) before it was gone. Any cut, etc., in our home, gets treated immediately with Betadine. Not taking any chances.

Even scarier is the mutated staph which is resistant to ALL antibiotics. In other words, most will die from it. Not a fun thing to contemplate.

my family & i have mrsa. we have been battling this for going on 4 years now. my 8 year old son contracted mrsa from school. people don't realize exactly how dangerous this "superbug" really is. many cases are misdiagnosed as spider bites or skin allergies. WASH HANDS!!! antibacterial soap, bleach linens, hand sanitizer!!! everyone really needs to read this and become aware of this growing epidemic that can become fatal.

You Would never know you are infected until you become sick and MRSA can be very painful.

As a Registered Nurse who has had WAAAAAY too much experience working with MRSA patients, I can say that everyone needs to be concerned about this particular superbug, as well as VRSA (Vancomycin resistant Staph aureus) and VRE (Vancomycin resistant Enterococcus). Once seen only in health care facilities, MRSA is now making a large incursion into the community. Once colonized with this particular infection, it is generally with you for life. It has periods of dormancy after treatment, but stress or weakened immune systems can reactivate the infection. The fact that it is showing up with increasing frequency in schools and athletic organizations shows that the general public needs to be educated about the infection and what measures to take to make the best effort to avoid contracting it.

"n our experience, patients who presented with soft tissue infections as result of spider bites predominantly had methicillin-resistant S. aureus infections, corresponding to the increased incidence of MRSA reported in the community. Therefore, a more aggressive approach to the management of spider bites presenting with severe cellulitis is warranted. Routine treatment should include aggressive surgical debridement, intraoperative wound cultures, the empiric use of antibiotics with activity against MRSA, and adjustment of antimicrobial therapy based on culture and sensitivity data."

If soo many patients present with a "spider bite" at the onset of being diagnosed, can testing be done to see if spiders can transmit this viralant resistant staph? I know of someone who presented with a spider bite, you could actually see the two bite holes and they actually had the spider in a jar they found it between the mattress and the wall. They could not get anyone to listen or test the spider itself, they previously had NO MRSA ever. I read a study about soil and how most of it tests positive for bacteria, especialy s. aurus. Also in my research in our area the cases of soft tissue MRSA infections were higher durring the months when spiders are mating and more likely to be aggressive and bite. What does anyone think about this? if there is a concern about bird flu, Malaria from mosquitos, maybe there is a possible spread factor with actual spider bites?????

I am outraged !!!  I can't believe no one is holding the hospitals accountable for spreading this awful superbug. When I  recently went to visit my best friend in the hospital the nurse told me he has MRSA and VRE.  NO one coming in or out was wearing protective clothing or gloves or washed any equipment or their own hands!!!  I also took my daughter to the doctors office the other day and not the doctor or the nurses washed their hands before of after being in the room. 

People we have to speak up and say something.  Do you really want someone touching you that has touched 100 other sick people that day?  Do you want  medical equipment used on you when you don't know where it's been?  Let's get real!!!! We are all moaning and groaning over the high cost of health care and the care we are getting is laced with superbugs because someone doesn't feel like washing their hands 200 times a day or disinfecting the equipment properly!!!!! 

I understand the superbugs are not only found in the hospital, I understand the types, the schools are disinfecting and teaching the students what to do. Why aren't we speaking up and demanding the same for our doctors, nurses and all health care personnel?

People are suffering needlessly, people are DYING!!!!!

It is sad to say, but the lack of education to the medical workers such as nurses, some Doctors, PA's and the Dr office staff is a likely culprit to the spread of this monster. When I was diagnosed they didnt call me and give me the precautions, the dos and donts ect. Just think how many go untreated or dont know to cover up these wounds and that they are in fact infectious. It is astounding what I have been reading and watching on TV. This is getting everywhere, and seems like the medical community are NOT taking it serious enough. I guess when someone of great importance gets it, then they will take notice and maybe try to address the severity of it.

I am healing, and really feel terrible complaining at all compared to some that have it so much worse than I do and thank God that my family does not have it. I have been telling everyone that I know how dangerous this is and how it is in the public. MRSA is definatly something that isnt going to just "go away" and its going to get worse because so many are walking around with the absence of knowlege, good hygene, and live in the delusional world of "it wont happen to me"

I hope that Dr. Phil doesnt just drop this, and has another show after more investigation, because he raised alot of points, but also left out alot. If this is becoming worse than AIDS then why in Gods name is someone, (NIH or something) doing more about it.

Thanks for reading, just needed to vent some more. God Bless!

  What is the difference between Resistant staphyloccus and Susceptible staphyloccus.. I understand it to be that the resistant type does not fight off the disese but the susceptible does. Is this ture?

Antibiotics are our last line of defenSe in treating some lifethreatening conditions. We make antibiotics less effective for when we really need them when they are used soo needlessly. For instance in our food supply many of our farmers overuse them in all meat and dairy farming. You may not even realize your children and you are ingesting antibiotics daily through the meat and dairy products you are eating.

These antibiotics when ingested have an effect on good and bad bacterias. Often time you kill or weaken your bodies natural flora and fauna, your first line of defense against invading bad bacteria. Then also everytime you introduce antibiotics needlessly you are educating the bad bacteria, it mutates, or learns how to "resist" that antibiotic, thus becoming the "superbug". These superbugs are evolving at a far faster rate than we can develope new effective and stronger antibiotics and it leaves us in a life or death struggle in wich the bacteria is winning, all of the posts of people who have sadly passed away because of MRSA can prove this.

So read read read, be careful about allowing doctors to "needlessly" perscribe antibiotics to pacify sick patients wanting a "quick fix", when time might just be the awnser. Also check the labels on the foods you are bringing home, dont buy meat or dairy that doesnt say "antibiotic and hormone free".

 Also As important as it is to "disinfect" 'sterilize" and try and use "antibacterial"  remember you can lower your bodies own natural defences by trying to kill the nasty bad bacteria. By having a completely sterile environment all the time the moment you are introduced to a bad bacteria it is going hit you like a ton of bricks because you have inadvertantly wiped out your defences.

You have to let your own body build up a resistance and be able to fight off the inevitable bacteria IT WILL be exposed to, we cannot live in a bubble, or becoming  OCD could also fuel the spread and lower our resistance as well. Can I suggest EDUCATION, RESEARCH,  BALANCE, and MODERATION when you are being proactive against MRSA.