Topic : 04/01 The Superbug

Quote From: brendl

I had a historectomy and bladder lift 13 months ago, since then I have had to have what they called an abess from my abdonmen, 4 different lumps have been cut out of legs, armpits and breast.  How do I know if I am safe?  Would my doctor here in nowwhere land look for something like that????

Quote From: java_jess

I Had MRSA and my wound was packed with silver cell and It really helped the healing and kept the infection from getting worse!

Quote From: jewelsf

I personally like the idea of organic fruits and vegetables but it isn't practical to think that the farmers could feed the world growing their produce that way. The crops have to be mass produced or the world would go hungry. And field workers? Well, I'm certainly not crazy about the idea of that either but there is a practical side to it also. First I want to say that they come over here and get free medical, use other family members SSN's and a bunch of other stuff like that which takes a toll on the USA's finances but think about it. Who will work the fields if they don't? That is awful, back breaking, hot work. It is in fact the lowest form of employment in this country. I happen to know quite a bit about this subject because my husband is the #1 Supervisor for a produce company. He has worked in produce management all of his life and he is 59 years old. We've been married for over 20 years. He supervises the shipping, he walks the fields, he does just about everything but sell the stuff and pick it of course. I also worked with someone who was born in Mexico and she told me that she picked produce for awhile and it is so hard that she would never do that again.  I don't understand why the illegal aliens don't just get a green card to work here legally. That baffles me. And about the trashy sneezing, yes that's pretty gross but I think the most important thing everyone can do to stop so many of the awful germs being passed such as e-coli is to wash their hands after using the bathroom. Here we are in the year 2008 and after all of the programs on TV like 60 minutes, etc, and the nightly news reporting this, how come there are so many people that are still not getting it?!!!!!! I don't get it!!!!! That is just so gross and such a simple thing to do. Back when I worked I would see women that I worked with use the bathroom, come out of the stall, groom their hair and prance right out the door. Lipstick yes, hands no. Why is this so hard to do?

Quote From: icupa2te

My 9 year old daughter has CA-MRSA and had one of the larger boils drained and was put on a sulfa-based antibiotic for 14 days.  The boils went away, but over this past weekend another one started to appear on her leg.  It was an oblong welt with a very tiny center and really hot to the thouch.  I had ordered some manuka honey previously, but it didn't arrive before the other boils healed.  I put this honey on a bandage and by the next morning, the boil had a blister on top that we opened and drained.  This was clear fluid, not like the previous boil that drained huge amounts of greenish puss.  The welt went down and it continues to improve daily without any nasty puss.  We have both used bactriban in our noses for the past 5 days (twice a day) hoping to get rid of any colonization in us.  We use lysol around the house for cleaning and spraying and hand sanitizer often.  Having a clean environment may help, but this stuff is everywhere.  Also, my daughter had no noticeable open wounds that this staff had access to. 

 

I wasn't going to put my daughter on antibiotics again so soon after her last round of treatment with a possible solution other than antibiotics.  I am keeping a close eye on her though.  If it starts to looke worse or she developes a fever, we will seek medical advise promptly.  I have also been looking into allicin (extracted from garlic) for her to take as an internal treatment.

 

Read up on manuka honey and make an informed decision.

Quote From: kim91870

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!!!!!

 

Quote From: maryicp

MRSA is not just a hospital issue.  In fact, more patients coming in to our hospital have MRSA on their skin before they are ever admitted.  Many hospitals do screening cultures for MRSA and other organisms.  It is through these screening cultures that we know that community acquired MRSA is a far greater risk than hospital acquired MRSA.  Preventing MRSA  is simple.  Wash your hands or use alcohol based hand sanitizers.  If you are in the hospital, ask your health care workers including your physician to wash their hands.  Also, MRSA is not resistant to all antibiotics.  There are many antibiotics that are effective to treat it.

 

"Control Measures" are mandatory and implemented in all health care facilities.  The reason health care workers wear "hazmat gear" (Personal Protective Equipment) protects everyone from infection including the patient in that bed. 

 

I am disappointed that the show was so negative and lacked good advice on how to protect yourself and others.  You can get MRSA anywhere.  It is at grocery stores, church or anywhere people go.  Bottom line-WASH YOUR HANDS!!!  I don't feel that this show was helpful to educate people about MRSA because it was incomplete.

 

Normal cleaners kill the MRSA bacteria.  Normal cleaning practices are sufficient to protect everyone.