Posted on 09/07/2016 4:35:47 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
Fifteen years after the U.S. declared drug-resistant infections to be a grave threat, the crisis is only worsening, a Reuters investigation finds, as government agencies remain unwilling or unable to impose reporting requirements on a healthcare industry that often hides the problem.
According to their death certificates, Emma Grace Breaux died at age 3 from complications of the flu; Joshua Nahum died at age 27 from complications related to a skydiving accident; and Dan Greulich succumbed to cardiac arrhythmia at age 64 after a combined kidney and liver transplant.
In each case – and in others Reuters found – death resulted from a drug-resistant bacterial infection contracted while the patients were receiving hospital care, medical records show. Their death certificates omit any mention of the infections.
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But the way I get through each day is he is better being with the Lord than I am still here in this hell hole called Earth, my hope is, Trump will win and Our Country will be back on track...
I can’t say I have done any real reading on this subject but at first glance it seems inadvisable.
Ozone is great for sterilizing instruments because it is a powerful oxidizer that leaves no residue. Essentially it kills any living microscopic organism with which it comes in contact by eating holes in the cell wall.
That would in my mind include blood cells.
Reinjecting dead blood in to a patient would seem to me counterproductive and potentially fatal.
Dead blood could be filtered out using a hemodialysis (artificial kidney) but again it is hard to see the benefits to the patient.
I am so deeply sorry for your loss.
HDLady, I had no idea, and I’m speechless sorry for the loss of your son.
Thank you for relating something so difficult, and as a result I’ll remind all everyone I know to take careful notice and immediate action of any infections very early on.
God bless you.
Colloidal silver also kills MRSA dead, and folks can easily manufacture it themselves.
About 6 years ago I contracted MRSA, post surgery. It started at the wound site and I was put on Vancomycin for weeks (I was able to come home after a few weeks, but continued the Vancomycin treatment at home, due to a PICC line that was inserted.)
If anyone finds they have contracted a resistant infection, the first thing you need to do is get the hospital to call in an Infection Disease doctor. They’re the ones that have knowledge to help with resistant infections. The hospital won’t suggest this, unfortunately, the patient has to insist on it. If no Infection Disease doc is called in, then the hospital can slide without siting the cause of the infection.
Most MRSA is hospital acquired and the doctors know this. Next surgery I had the surgeon literally stapled the dressing over my incision so that no nurse or other hospital personnel could have access to the incision line.
If you can stay out of the hospital, that’s your best bet, but some of us aren’t that fortunate. But MRSA is now in the “community”...so we have hospital acquired outbreaks, and “community acquired” outbreaks. I’ve known two young men, who contracted MRSA, and they surmised it was from gym exposure.
http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/id-mi/camrsa-eng.php
The scary part, now there is Vancomycin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus. (Vancomycin is the 1st line of defense against MrSA)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancomycin-resistant_Staphylococcus_aureus
Another problem where resistant “bugs” are a big deal is with urinary infections. Except these are not infections that are hospital borne...these are from strains of E Coli that have become resistant to most antibiotics.
http://www.webmd.com/women/news/20150429/uti-antibiotic-resistance#1
Bingo.
its opportunistic just like other infections........
it developed because of decades of over use of antibiotics and there will be more antibiotic resistant infections coming along....
we must stop using and demanding antibiotics for things that our bodies can overcome on its own, if we give it time....
hopefully the days of getting antibiotics for stuffy noses, simple coughs, etc are over..
of course you're going to find MRSA in hospitals and clinics...that's where the sick go and stay...that's where other infections are that's where antibiotics are used...
but, they have found MRSA on the skin of HS football players....
my advice is to get healthy, keep your blood sugars under control, and if you must visit someone in the hospital, I would make sure any sores or scratches are covered, and keep your visit short....
My Dad got an anti biotic resistant infection while recovering from a broken hip. He had a number of health issues. The resistant infection was not shown as cause of death, but it really was a big factor.
“Is there an incentive to NOT LIST MRSA as the cause of death ? “
Since the hospitals self-report, I would be suspicious of these numbers. too.
“Colloidal silver also kills MRSA dead...”
No, it doesn’t. Go peddle your voodoo elsewhere.
All evidence and research in the area says Colloidal Silver kills MRSAs.
Do you have knowledge otherwise?
If so, please share it.
I am so sorry. I cannot even imagine the pain of your loss.
This concerns me very much. Thanks for the ping, TIK.
This issue concerns me as well
I have noticed that the statistics of CDC regarding MRSA have declined, at the same time that we have become an increasingly litigious society.
The accuracy of these statistics depends on the honesty of self-reporting by doctors and the hospitals to the CDC.
That is why I stated the:"GI/GO" (garbage in/garbage out) for statistical accuracy.
Yes, those are definitely connected. It’s a dangerous situation.
Ionic silver has varying effect on bacteria and human cells in vitro. So do mercury and copper and a few other metals. There is no evidence that colloidal silver can cure bacterial infections.
That’s why the hundreds of thousands of doctors and scientists around the world who specialize in infectious diseases and each have years of experience in the field and who all have heard of colloidal silver virtually never use colloidal silver to treat anything.
Until fairly recently, our baby doc said, the drops they put in the eyes of newborns contained silver.
I read the abstract of a study last year or so that found that silver in conjunction with antibiotics could increase the efficacy of the antibiotics, sometimes as high as a thousand times.
Maybe the reason docs don’t push silver is because the pharma companies don’t push silver, because they cannot patent it.
Johnson and Johnson recently came out with a product line of bandages for burn victims, which is imbued with silver. The silver is to prevent infection.
Yes, they used to use silver nitrate, a source of ionic silver, in eye drops, but discontinued its use as it was not as effective as other antibiotics.
Silver, in fact, reduces the efficacy of many common antibiotics, particularly the penicillin-class antibiotics.
Silver is used as a topical antibiotic on wounds and burns and on equipment, but again, is not as effective as other antibiotics.
It’s not a “big pharma” case. It’s a “sucker born every minute” case.
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