“Stay away from hospitals. They have germs in there that you can’t find anywhere else in town!”
- the late Dr. Robert S. Mendelsohn
There have been some successes treating these infections with bacteriophages.
While I was researching something different a few years ago, I came across a company that sells bacteriophages. You can order ones that attack your specific strain of bacteria. They had at least a dozen for different strains of MRSA.
Probably not covered by insurance, though.
I'm shocked I tell you - shocked. /s
One of the regrets I have from my fire department days: we went to an old man who worked a little too hard in his garden on a warm day and got light headed. Our paramedics were dispatched with us. They found nothing out of the ordinary in his EKG and despite his objections with the help of his family, they talked him into going to the hospital as a precaution. While in the hospital for observation he picked up respiratory MERSA. When he came home he gave it to his wife. They were both dead from pneumonia within a month.
Maybe it was just God’s plan, but if he hadn’t gone in for an unnecessary hospital visit they would likely have had no problems. Going to the hospital as a precaution is not always a good idea.
The federal government telling the truth?
What a sack of horse manure.
while this is alarming when taken in light of the few cases that there are- when compared to the many many surgeries and hospitalizations per year- it’s a drop in the bucket still- a very small percentage- your chance of getting it is still very small-
This is an outrage. Why hasn’t Trump done something about this?
My husband and daughter have both had multiple surgeries in the last 3 years. Both have been MRSA victims. One getting it from Kessler Rehab. They both beat it, but it took months and months of treatments, and delayed their recoveries.
I work in a hospital.
The people around me are germ nuts. They wipe down everything with these “wipes” that smell like strong bleach. If you have a cough, you are wearing a mask. Period. or you go home.
I would feel comfortable eating off of any surface in the OR. My office is right next to Central Sterilizing. That place is as clean as any clean room.
Most of the patients are walking petri dishes. Their families are carriers of God Knows what...and they slobber all over the place.
If you want to see a mess, go to a day-surgery complex. Those places are not inspected and you know they are not getting the sterilization that happens on an industrial level in the hospital.
I probably get exposed to more dangerous pathogens in a day, touching doors and walking in the patient areas, than most people will see in a month.
The stuff that will kill you is kind of scary. And we fix most of it...
Raise your hand if you don’t know five people who demanded antibiotics for a simple upper respiratory.