How to Stop the Rise of Superbugs

The American ^ | June 3, 2013 | Waldemar Ingdahl

[goodwithagun]

Yes, but it must be a foam-style dispenser. They are designed to foam the liquid when it is dispensed. Regular liquid soap dispensers will not work for this. I just gather the dispensers that need refilled and nuke the appropriate amount of water. I then add the liquid soap and stir gently. I pour the clear, non-foamed mixture into the dispensers and put them back in their palces after they’ve cooled. I rarely have to gently shake some containers to remix the solution. You can use any liquid soap, but I like triclosan-free. It is also a great way to stretch your dollar. I think Pampered Chef sells foam dispensers but you could probably find them at home stores. I just refill these because I’m too cheap tp buy fancy ones lol!

[Nowhere Man]

There are many things that must be done but two things that *patients* in the West (and particularly in the US) is not to demand an antibiotic from a doctor when you have the sniffles,etc.Viruses aren’t affected one bit by antibiotics.Second,when you’re given an antibiotic take it *exactly* as directed unless told otherwise by a doctor.That means if you’ve taken the pills for a few days and feel better you *continue* taking them for the original time span.

Correct, you are supposed to take them until you're finished or until the doctor says to stop. The anti-biotics are used to treat the side effects of the virus where they also bring upon a bacterial infection. If there is none beside the virus, you just have to suck it up and let it run its course.

[goodwithagun]

Here’s the Pampered Chef bottle, but again I’m too cheap!
http://www.pamperedchef.com/ordering/prod_details.tpc?prodId=634&catId=123&parentCatId=123&outletSubCat=

[Nowhere Man]

I refused to let them check me in for the night but they did put me on an intravenous antibiotic feed, I don’t recall ever experiencing that, and it was magic, within an hour I was a different man, I was really impressed by modern medicine, and the two weeks of antibiotics afterward really fixed up whatever it was, unless the short 103 fever of a week ago was related.

In 2003, I cut the pinky side of my left hand open on a rusty nail while getting out of my car. I cut an artery, had it stitched and week later, infection. I was in hospital 5 days with it including surgery. I almost lost part or all of my hand, but I got away with some nerve damage only and perhaps I might have a little arthritis, not sure. It was strep that infected me. Along with the surgery, I was connected to anti-biotics, a then new one, for 24 hours straight for the first day or two and then for half an hour every six hours. When I was hooked all the time, lugging that dang IV tree was a pain. I could have been out in 3 days but the county infectious doctor kept me in until I was cleared. I just sat around watching Civil War documentaries, listening to Rush and Art Bell and watching the Columbia investigation (I went in hospital the day after the space shuttle Columbia cracked up).

BTW, my car insurance medical covered it since it involved the car (getting out). I thanked God since at the time I thought the guy I was working for took care of our medical insurance but he did not, but that's another story.

BTW, I think they need to cut back on anti-biotic use and go with other means such as sulfa like my mother's oncologist did with her infection.

[KittenClaws]

I am not an advocate of antibiotics. My husband is.

He gets sick and its off to the doctor for some dang pill. When I get sick, he can’t understand my propensity to ride it out.

Sure, I take an aspirin every now and then, and NyQuil is a nice friend for a night or two when needed. But I can’t recall my husband with all of his pills getting well any sooner than I do without them.

My husband thinks I fear doctors, I think he fears being sick. What’s up with that? LOL!

[editor-surveyor]

You need to spread lots of Boraxo around!

[goodnesswins]

Thanks!

[kennyboy509]

Stop selling the s$&t at the feed store.

[familyop]

"Unsanitary hospital environments and the negligence of cleaning staffs have also been identified as contributors to antibiotic resistance. Implementing new procedures for doctors and nurses would create more sanitary conditions."

That would be a good measure, with more attention to reasonable hygiene by everyone (e.g., washing hands after using restroom). Too many around us are spoiled rotten and filthy.

[acapesket]

Borax ( as in 20 mule team) and boraxo are 2 different products. Which one do you mean and why? Or is that a joke that I am not getting?

[Secret Agent Man]

it’s not just over-prescription. it’s not even about giving them when the illness isn’t bacterial, because there’s no bad bacteria to mutate/make stronger in these cases. it is about people not taking the full prescription the full length of time. they start feeling better and stop taking the full prescription, but haven’t wiped it out totally yet, leaving stronger bacteria still alive, and then the bacteria rebounds and the person has a tougher strain, more resistant bug to get rid of.

[5th MEB]

Why do you think they call it sweet water?
Your still alive aren't you?
Just for the laughs, try finding out what goes into a can of soup or a slice of boloney.

[5th MEB]

It’s not a joke; pure 20 Mule Team fine powdered borax works best, but the powdered hand cleaner will work to.
The powdered borax gets into the bugs breathing apparatus and kills them dead, works good on ants and other tiny varmints to.

[Right Wing Assault]

cut back on anti-biotic use and go with other means such as sulfa

Sulfa IS an antibiotic.

[doberville]

IIRC, sulfa has a different action than antibiotics.

Apparently sulfa doesn't kill the pathogens outright; it prevents them from reproducing, thus allowing the bodies own defenses to prevail.

[generally]

Bingo.

I refuse to buy antibacterial soap. You have to read labels carefully. 90% of what’s on the shelf is antibacterial.

My immune system is just fine because
a) I wash my hands with (regular) soap and water so that I’m not breeding resistant bacteria in my home.
b) Exposure to a few germs now and then keeps my immune system strong.

[MamaTexan]

You have to read labels carefully. 90% of what’s on the shelf is antibacterial.

I had to learn all the label-ease. My former job exposed me to such a massive amount of the aeromatic hydrocarbon-based type chemicals that I can't even use the soap in a public restroom without the skin on my hands developing cracks and ozing, itchy blisters.

You really want to freak a germaphobe out, call 'antibacterials' what they really are.....

pesticides.

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This 'the only good bacteria is a dead bacteria' mentality is [literally] killing us.

[neverdem]

IIRC, sulfa has a different action than antibiotics.

You're getting close. Sulfa drugs have a different action than other antibiotics.

Apparently sulfa doesn't kill the pathogens outright; it prevents them from reproducing, thus allowing the bodies own defenses to prevail.

There are two broad classes of antibiotics: bacteriostatics that stop growth and bactericidals that kill the bacteria.

"The sulfonamides, or sulfa drugs, are derivatives of sulfanilamide, competitively inhibit folic acid synthesis in microorganisms, and formerly were bacteriostatic against a wide variety of bacteria and some protozoa. Because many microbes are now resistant, sulfonamides have largely been supplanted by more effective and less toxic antibiotics."

http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/sulfonamide

[Mr. K]

Just a quick not on cleaning

Did you ever notice your doctors office does not smell like bleach?

That is because they use hydrogen peroxide.

It is surprisingly cheap- less than a buck a quart. I use it in the laundry and for washing cleanup around the house too. I buy it by the case now.

I had an agonizing problem with some itching on my legs - I could not sleep for months, and the doctors were clueless- I soaked them down with hydrogen peroxide poured onto a washcloth, and then soaked in a bath with another quart of peroxide in the water and it went away 100% (applied body lotion afterwards too - a good one, Neutrogena?)

Keep a supply on hand for when the SHTF

[editor-surveyor]

No joke, boron, or boric acid, will usually control insects without toxic effects on humans.

Just don’t use it near plants.