Posted on 11/18/2006 7:36:43 PM PST by blam
What is clostridium difficile, or MRSA? I never heard of it.
We should be doing that here in the U.S. MRSA is rampant in our hospitals. Family members have been stricken with it in hospitals. It is really dangerous to be in a hospital nowadays.
When did hospitals get so dirty? Is it the overuse of antibiotics?
My cousin recently died from it..
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We have been doing this for over a year at the hospietal where I work.
If I were an honest liberal my response would be, "This just isn't fair. This is discrimination! These patients are victims twice over. First by a disease and now by insensitive mrsaphobics. "
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They WEREN"T already doing this? No wonder these things spread ! It's standard protocol in North America to put anyone suspect of having an unknown contagious bug to be isolated and put on technique.
We do. Unfortunately, it people who visit and wander through hospitals as if they are bus stations that spread disease around, 90% of hospital visitors don't even wash their hands after going to the washroom, or touching ANYTHING, like a doorknob.
And yet we don’t isolate those with AIDS, a far more hideous disease. A totally preventable disease … PC reigns supreme.
Our hospital here does not isolate.
It's a combination of many factors. Overuse of antibiotics is one factor, as is the reduction in cleaning staff, changes in bed usage, availability and number per room rates, and many other factors.
Put it this way: The absolute WORST place to be if you're trying to get over any illness is a hospital. Hospitals have been reduced to infection pools by the pursuit of, and aversion to spending of, the almighty dollar.
I work in a pretty fair sized hospital. If my old job (for $6/hr LESS , and more, harder work) comes up, I'm outts here!
The new (black)plague is here. We've just been extraordinarily lucky so far.
Isn't it the over use of anti-biotic everything what caused the superbugs to begin with? Isn't this like pouring gasoline on a fire to put it out?
I believe so. Initially anti-bacterial soap was used only by doctors and nurses in hospitals. Then of course it became more widely distributed and soon mothers became religious fanatics about cleanliness. Now we have allergies and kids unable to shake off even the slightest infection without help. Furthermore there are people who have used antibiotics improperly and/or get stds and other such illnesses and then use the same cure over and over and over.
Don't get me started on the idiots who helps the AIDS superbug occur. Filthy perverts.
"Hospitals have been reduced to infection pools by the pursuit of, and aversion to spending of, the almighty dollar."
Well, lawsuits by money hungry lawyers hasn't helped. You are right though about there being a recent aversion to spending money on stuff that is desperately needed.
I've read about hand washing, anti-bacterial soaps and the results.
If people wash hands for one minute using regular soap (30 seconds scrubbing with soap, 30 seconds rinsing) their hands get just as germ free if not more so than using anti-bactertial soap.
Which, of course, helps create super bacteria.
Most people barely wash their hands, if at all. Proper and frequent hand washing is one of the most important things people can do to avoid contracting illness. That and not wearing shoes in the house.
The other problem has now become the advertizing industry. Ever see those commercials of women in gleaming, spotless, white kitchens freaking out over the thought that their precious little overindulged angels just MIGHT encounter a stray germ or two?
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