Posted on 09/20/2009 8:51:34 PM PDT by Flavius
When she cleans the rooms of patients with swine flu symptoms, Jana Newton, a housekeeper at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, has to suit up for her own protection in a mask, gloves, gown and hairnet.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
interestingly and surprisingly, people might be shocked to learn that at least in my state there is absolutely no legal way to prevent a person in isolation from coming out, walking around the hospital, or going to the cafeteria etc....and the same applies to his visitors....they can come and go and use the public bathroom and the cafeteria and you can not force them to wear glovers or masks or gowns....
Swine flu is different from most other flus. Turning the body’s immune system upon itself in an overreaction, swine flu is more likely to kill somebody with a good immune system than somebody with a poor immune system.
With all the bother of suiting up, some don’t bother to do so afresh for each new patient.
Doctors are among the worst cross-carriers of infection. They often don’t bother washing up with all the people they see.
I think you may be wrong. Most of the deaths have been to people with neurological problems (epilepsy, CP).
The epilepsy forums have posted information from the CDC regarding this.
I figure it lowers the seizure threshold more than other flus.
(My daughter has epilepsy.)
I believe it’s both/and not either/or. We’ve already seen that confirmed cases of the swine flu in Mexico have proven more likely to kill than cases of the same in the USA, and that young people who catch it are more likely to die from it than older people.
First I have heard it from your post about CP.
However I do not need a forum to know that my son is getting the vaccine.
Severe CP with a trach common sense says get him vaccinated also per usual with the yearly flu vaccine and the pnemon. vaccine every 7yrs or so.
We are waiting for the call from him Docs office as a top on the list when it gets here.
Normal flu per school starts in the community is here.
So we flip out our sched and do stuff late at night when all the families/healthcare workers ect are in bed for the night.
Done that for years now.
Had a blast this summer going to so many events...time to honker down for health reasons now.
Where does ron paul get all these conspiracy nuts? /s/
This is the first hard data that I am aware of concerning H1N1 and vitamin D. It appears vitamin D is incredibly protective against H1N1. Dr. Carlos Carmago at Mass General ran the numbers in an email to me. Even if one excludes 43 staff members who called in sick with influenza, 0.73% of residents were affected, as compared to 7.5% of staff. This 10-fold difference was statistically significant (P<0.001). That is, the chance that this was a chance occurrence is one less than one in a thousand.
Second, if you read my last newsletter, you will see that children with neurological impairments, like the patients at your hospital, have accounted for 2/3 of the childhood deaths for H1N1 so far in the USA. That is, the CDC knows, because they reported it, that patients with neurological impairments are more likely to die from H1N1.
We just found out at the first of this year that my daughter who is on anti-seizure medication is extremely low on Vitamin D. I found out that the medication can strip people of their vitamin D, and cause a defiency.
In January, we started supplementing 1000IU of vitamin D. In July, she was still deficient, so we have now started giving her 2000IU of vitamin D a day.
Anyway, I wonder if one of the reasons the kids are dying is because they are low on vitamin d due to medication they are taking.
It’s very scary to me. I wish my daughter’s vitamin D levels were up to normal.
More likely to die from the conditions in the hosp. not the virus.
We will continue our doses of Vit D and we will accept the innoculation.
Good luck to the rest of you.
I saw a Mom teaching her kiddies to wash hands the other day in a public Lavatory.
Happy Birthday to me....
I decided I would give my opines to Moms (yeah I will get flack) that wash your hands to I Pledge Allegiance... get dim 4 yr olds ready for school by golly. /sarc.
Not scary luckystarmom if you are in the know and can kindly share.
We live in the PNW.
I tested out at 11.something.
I take 2000 a day (I worked up to it) and dont advice ANYBODY to take supplements without consult/blood work from their Doc.
KV is on 800mg a day.
The interesting thing about D is all the other good nutrients piggy back on it for absorbtion.
Or so I have heard. Not hard sci.
So what counts as “neurological impairments.”
I was quoting John Jacob Cannell MD, and he was saying that the CDC had reported that.
so to answer YOUR question, I googled Neurological H1N1 site:CDC.gov, and browsed a few results... One referred to deaths for high-risk conditons as neurodevelopmental conditions. Another referred to a high-risk condition as "Neurological disorders (including nervous system, brain or spinal cord)". Feel free to research this further if you need to....
To characterize these cases, CDC analyzed data from April to August 2009. The results of that analysis indicated that, of 36 children who died, seven (19%) were aged <5 years, and 24 (67%) had one or more of the high-risk medical conditions. Twenty-two (92%) of the 24 children with high-risk medical conditions had neurodevelopmental conditions.
some include cerebral palsy, epilepsy, brain injury
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