Posted on 03/10/2006 6:28:34 AM PST by SUSSA
DUNN, N.C. - North Carolina health officials are investigating the death of a woman who died last week of a flesh-eating bacteria three days after accidentally jamming her hand in a wheelchair while working at a nursing home.
Nursing assistant Sharron Bishop, 44, died Feb. 27. A doctor said a rare flesh-eating bacteria may have entered her body through a thumb injury and she turned from healthy to fatally ill.
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Sharon Bishop complained on Feb. 24 about a swollen thumb. She had jammed it at work and worried that she had dislocated it. David Bishop took her to Betsy Johnson Regional Hospital, where doctors gave her pain medication and sent her home.
The swelling got worse. By the morning of Feb. 27, her arm was twice as large as normal and looked like it would burst, David Bishop said. Fluid leaked from her elbow and wrist. She complained of terrific pain.
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Dunn physician Abraham Oudeh diagnosed necrotizing fasciitis, an infection that destroys tissue.
Doctors at UNC Hospitals that evening tried to stop the spreading infection by amputating her arm at the clavicle and removing all the muscle and tissue around her left breast, torso and thigh in a futile effort to save her life.
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Yes, I refuse to buy antibacterial soap.
I'll use isopropanol based cleaners sometimes because those nuke everything. Bacteria don't really have a good way to build up resistance to alcohols.
It was indeed a suprise. He was oreintal, that's the only reason I can think of since he is not naturopathic. So, I pushed the use of a good acidopholis supplement and he shrugged that off. I think it's extremely important with antibiotic use.
I have also heard that manuka honey topically will ward off staph. My son had acne problems that we are treating with it and I am amazed at how much it has cleared up.
Why just old people? Hell, people in general...(:
That's a relief. Olive oil is the only thing I cook with.
Good for you! I love cooking with it also. The best defense against bacterial and viral is in the tincture form though and you don't cook with it...it's very highly concentrated from the olive leaf. This is the medicinal part of it.
Get her to a good periodontist and have them do a culture. I know from painful experience that if these bacteria are below your gums, they ain't going away without a serious intervention, and while they're not usually flesh-eating bacteria, they can cause recurring resistant infections and bone loss.
I avoided going because of the cost involved (most insurance plans cover NO perio work at all). Well, because I put it off for too long, I've now had to shell out money for bone grafts on top of shelling out for the gum surgery. Don't be like me!
Yeah, rubbing alcohol would work (I think the standard concentration is ~70% isopropanol). It's also in a variety of cleaners, I think Windex and Lysol both usually contain isopropanol. In cell culture labs 70% ethanol is the standard disinfectant, so vodka would work in a pinch. :-D Bleach is another good one--absolutely no way to resist that! I'd say bleach is the gold standard. There's also hydrogen peroxide, though.
I'm sure vinegar works too for many bacteria, it's acidic.
I try not to go into anti-germ overkill, but these are good if you get raw meat on a countertop or need to clean up cat excrement (Yippee!)
Sounds like my first aid kit! I do prefer Advil to Tylenol, and, I lay gauze under my duck tape unless I need to excavate some body hair.
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What about the hunting knife in case you need to remove your appendix or amputate a finger? That's a critical item. And the bottle of vodka to both steel your nerves before the operation and disinfect the surgery site.
Interesting. Lysol in the spray can though, right? Lysol use to have a great disenfectan product..It was not pleasant to smell though...It came in a brown bottle and I have looked high and low without any luck.
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Everyone knows the link between strep and rheumatic heart disease, damaging the heart valves.
The line of thinking now is that gum bacteria may be linked to heart blood vessel plaques also.
( since I've had heart disease, I take a bolus of an antibiotic before any dental work, even a cleaning. The dentist won't touch me if I don't)
So get that checked out!
Can you spell it out?
Well, at 19 she's not in danger of losing her teeth immediately (though I'm suspecting the one she broke and had root-canalled has either died or developed a cyst---been there too!).
But as Vinnie pointed out, the problem with these bacteria is that they don't stay in your mouth. They can cause all kinds of other problems down the road. And if the doc hasn't done a culture to pinpoint the specific bacteria, they don't know what they're fighting, and the antibiotics may only SEEM to be working.
Bring all this up with your dentist, if you don't want to go the perio route just yet.
The bad gum bacteria release toxins into the bloodstream.
Here's one article, there are probably hundreds online.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/02/020208080039.htm
I'm not going to push this any further than saying one more time that you'll save thousands of dollars in the long run by nipping it in the bud now.
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