Posted on 05/30/2009 10:56:44 AM PDT by george76
A total of 17 people have been infected with Clostridium difficile at a hospital in Moray.
NHS ...revealed on Wednesday that two elderly people with the C.diff infection had died.
Two wards have been closed to new admissions but health officials said the patients were giving no cause for concern.
The health board said the deaths happened in April and that both the patients had been frail.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
nearly resistant to anti-biotic drugs ?
The drug that does work is very expensive.
From the story: both the patients had been frail
Certainly not going to waste a very expensive drug on frail, elderly patients . . . just let 'em die. If they don't die fast enough, kill 'em.
. . . coming soon to a health system near you!
They are lucky to have free health care, even if it is killing them.
/s
Here is a very good thread about this procedure. It sounds icky but beats dying and it can be free as shown by these posters. http://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=38&m=1394029
Unfortunately, c. diff. is not unique to socialized medicine.
> Approximately 20% of individuals who are hospitalized acquire C difficile during hospitalization, and more than 30% of these patients develop diarrhea. Thus, C difficile colitis is currently one of the most common nosocomial infections.
> United States: C difficile infection primarily occurs in hospitalized patients, causing as many as 3 million cases of diarrhea and colitis per year.
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/186458-overview
Don’t allow yourself to be admitted to a hospital unless death is the obvious alternative.
Been there. It took a couple of rounds of Flagyl to get over. It is no disease to mess around with.
The problem with cleaning hospitals of the c.diff. bacteria is that the bacteria will convert to spores when stressed. And about the only thing strong enough to eliminate the spores is bleach.
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