Has anyone else heard about these "superbug" staph infections popping up in different parts of the US? Apparently, they are immune to conventional antibiotic treatment. I have only heard the minimum details, and was just wondering if anyone might know more. Thanks, J.
I have heard some, but not much. I have read and believe that garlic will kill these bacteria. A Persistent...a persistant (which spelling looks right, I am not sure?) use of garlic.
here is an article from our local newspaper just last week, I think. It has some info you can read. We have had a couple of cases of this here...as you will read. http://www.thestarpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200771024020
Wow.. I had no idea it had been around for that time period, and I worked in the healthcare field. I'm glad the students were able to be treated. I was under the impression that it was just killing people because there was no way to treat it.
They are having trouble in the schools around my area with this! Very scarey!!!! I'm so glad my kids are kept at home. There was just a big article in our local paper last weekend and a thing on my verizon yahoo homepage the other day too.
It sure is scary! I can hardly believe the timing of my hsing ds. If he was in ps I would be freaking out being worried! I hope it doesn't get much worse, but it probably will.
These infections are invading the highschools in my town as well. Three football players in one school ended up with the MRSA infection and two in fhe other school. It's fairly common in hospitals from what I understand of it and it doesn't respond to penicillin or derivatives of penicillin. Doctors use two other types of antibiotic to treat it (I don't remember the names of them). Good hand washing and cleaning your wounds out is supposed to go a long way in preventing MRSA infections. That's really all I know about it.
I heard about it on the news. Very scarey stuff. My sil was relased from the hospital early after having a C-Section...she had a hard time...but my mil is a pharmacist and knows all the doctors and nurses. They were confident my mil would take good care of her. They told her that staying in the hospital was more risky than allowing her to go home due to staph infections. I knew a girl that almost died of one after having a baby years ago.
They can be very nasty. I don't think I ever had a staph, but a few years back I had an infected tooth that would not get better. It got bad because I didn't even realize I had a problem until the pain woke me up one night. I went to the dentist and he said it was already severely infected and that another few days and I would have been septicemic. He asked why I didn't know, didn't I feel tired? I was like, ok, I'm a mom, I'm working all the time, I am Always tired. At any rate, he tried the various penicillins for about 2 months, that didn't work. Then he gave me one of the mycins, about 2000 mg 3 times a day and finally, that worked. I am glad your sil had your mil to take care of her and she didn't have to risk it! Way too scary especially with a c section wound to contend with.
My sis is a respiratory therapist and used to work in a hospital. She contracted a very serious staph infection (most likely at the hospital), but was required to come to work anyway. And they wonder why hospitals are prone to infection!
Yep.. that's part of why I decided I had wasted my time in nursing school! That and I had one traumatic event that changed my mind forever! Now I'm glad I didn't stick with it.. I can't stand the sight of anything yucky now...lol
My sis now does home health! But her daughter and husband both still get small staph infections from time to time. It always take the super strong antibiotics to get rid of them. Evidently once you've had it, you are more prone to it???
I'm not sure about being more prone to it. I wanted to pipe in and say that it's ridiculous that she had to go to work when she was sick! That's a good way to get run down, and then get really REALLY sick!! My mom is a retired RN. She did home health care and finally threw in the towel when the admin. wouldn't let the RN's care for the patients like they needed to becaues of bureaucratics.
long story short.. my dh got it 2 years ago and almost lost his life, not from not going to doctor, but from finding a doctor to help him after he got it.. it was sad story, I had to get really mean...
