Candida...we can make it together
Posted on 04/14/2019 5:02:34 PM PDT by bitt
A killer germ is raging through some New York hospitals and nursing homes. But public health officials are deliberately keeping the public in the dark about it.
New York state is ground zero for this germ, called Candida auris. Over half the nearly 600 cases nationwide are right here, mostly in New York City. New Jersey hospitals are also hard hit, with more than 100 cases so far. A staggering 45 percent of patients who get it die within 90 days.
It’s especially dangerous because once it gets inside a hospital, it spreads. Patients with Candida auris shed it from their skin, putting everyone around them at risk. It also clings to privacy curtains, mattresses and bedrails, walls and ceilings, and it can live there for weeks. Routine cleaning can’t remove it. You don’t want to be assigned to a hospital room where a previous patient had this germ.
Candida auris also travels through the hospital on thermometers and blood-pressure cuffs used on one patient after another.
How can you avoid these dangers? Secrecy makes it hard.
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Candida...we can make it together
LOL! Now I am singing that song.
That’s not in the KJV.
I will avoid hospitals even more than I already do. I wonder if it’s on the west coast.
I theorize that the plethora of antibiotics may be helping give rise to non-bacterial - or rare bacterial - infections. A good example is 'C diff' (Clostridioides difficile); this rare bacterial spore infection manifests most commonly in a patient who has just had a vigorous therapy of powerful antibiotics. (A good FReeper around here fell victim to this difficulty and it is questionable whether they will ever return to normal activities.)
It appears (to me) that the C diff is likely present in all of us, like e-coli, but is kept suppressed by active bacteria in the colon. Heavy antibiotic therapies, often necessarily involving a number of different antibiotics (due to growing immunity by pathogens to such), wipe out a huge portion of useful digestive pathogens in the colon and this give rise to insurgent C diff. . . . Whew!
One more excellent reason why no one should have elective surgery in a hospital. Take painkillers, use a wheelchair, crutches, whatever, but do not go near those places unless you will die if you don’t go.
It was bad enough with bacteria. These things will get the best of us and go home with the patient as well.
Great. That's the way they take your temperature now.
18 baume sodium hypochlorite will kill just about any fungus, bacteria, or organic matter I can think of.
Yeah, but how do you get it all off the windows, the window shades, the ceiling, the light fixtures, the privacy curtains, and every other thing in the room, including the people and objects who have been in there for even a few seconds?
Candida is very easy to kill
Colloidal silver
Liberals in New York state however are impossible to kill
Well I take that back the liberals in New York City ars impossible to kill
And yes the CIA FBI NASA and WHOEVER GUVMINT people
I mean kill in the political sense
I was in the South Bronx a few months ago. Women in colorful niqabs walked through the lines of cars at the stop-lights, selling newspapers, drinks, fruit, etc...
I thought I was in Somalia.
It’s called “liberaltitis” but they don’t want the people to know.
A female friend of the family was in pharmaceutical sales -- until she got too old for doctors to consider her hot, and so was replaced by a newer model. Her main product was a last-resort anti-fungal that sold for $3K/dose. I don't know if it works for this bug, but I can see an epidemic becoming very profitable for someone.
Good to know! Thank you
Thank you for the kind words. She’s had one thing after another for the last few years. She is the poster child for the fine print “possible side effects “ for every drug she’s ever taken. Her sons call her a cockroach (lovingly of course!) because she survives everything!
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