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The spread of superbugs - What can be done about the rising risk of antibiotic resistance?
The Economist ^
| Mar 31st 2011
| Masthead Editorial
Posted on 04/05/2011 11:05:59 AM PDT by neverdem
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To: Hulka
Have you/your doctors contacted airport officials? CDC? Security,etc?
Hell, I’d write your Congressman over something like that and perhaps contact an attorney.
Good luck to ya!
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posted on
04/05/2011 12:13:13 PM PDT
by
donozark
("Never wound a King." Machiavelli)
To: Hulka
Within a week, I was in hospital being treated for MRSA staph aereous in my blood. Incredible! You were one of the few to survive that severe of an attack. So was my mother. I have been trying to find out what strain she had but havent been able to get it yet. Some MRSA strains have a 50% kill rate in the first 30 days.
People really need to get up to speed on this. There was a 14 year old boy in my daughters school who lost his foot from MRSA from a minor footbal injury. Another person I know of lost half their butt from MRSA getting into the muscle. A lot of the transmission aparently comes from the pig meat market. A lot of pig farmers have come down with MRSA. So if your extended families are pig meat eaters....make sure they handle the meat carefully and clean up well.
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posted on
04/05/2011 12:28:54 PM PDT
by
blasater1960
(Deut 30, Psalm 111...the Torah and the Law, is attainable past, present and forever.)
To: goodwithagun
That’s great. Oh, if any of the “before” outlook on life was depression, do not forget to up your omega 3 fats and lower your omega 6. Eat wild fish twice a week and your mood will really improve. (or take a high quality fish oil,supplement not from china, not from a drug stores cheap brands).
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posted on
04/05/2011 12:30:27 PM PDT
by
Yaelle
To: Hulka
Wow,that is scary. Glad you survived this. The shoe checking is so damn ridiculous.
My gosh, you should wear padded socks before you travel again!
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posted on
04/05/2011 12:33:50 PM PDT
by
Yaelle
To: blasater1960
You are absolutely correct.
MRSA sent me to the ER.
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posted on
04/05/2011 12:47:32 PM PDT
by
Rammer
To: Hulka
Silver SocksThanks for the story. Never thought about it. Going to make my own using home brew. Can't hoit.
Feel better.
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posted on
04/05/2011 12:48:49 PM PDT
by
Stentor
( "All cults of personality begin as high drama and end as low comedy.")
To: djf
“But colloidal silver is snake oil...”
External use only. Why not just use alcohol?
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posted on
04/05/2011 12:53:05 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: neverdem
My mother has suffered a severe bout with C-diff. antibiotics would knock it down temporarily, but it kept coming back. Finally I convinced her to try Vitamin D3 along with Florastor probiotic. 6,000 units a day of D3. It’s working and I wonder why the her doctors never recommended either for the problem.
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posted on
04/05/2011 12:53:10 PM PDT
by
wolfman
To: neverdem
In this day and age, I can’t believe anyone is ignorant enough to go running to a doctor for an antibiotic for a ‘cold’. And all the doctors that go along with it just to shut them up and look like a hero should be ashamed of themselves. They should not even be considered health care professionals since what they are doing does not qualify as ‘health’ care, but leads to the decrease in everyone’s health and risk of acquiring resistant infection.
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posted on
04/05/2011 12:56:56 PM PDT
by
usmom
To: Palter; Hulka
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posted on
04/05/2011 1:24:39 PM PDT
by
blasater1960
(Deut 30, Psalm 111...the Torah and the Law, is attainable past, present and forever.)
To: Hulka
Are you on Vancomycin? Some of the newer strains of MRSA are even resistant to that!
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posted on
04/05/2011 1:30:40 PM PDT
by
blasater1960
(Deut 30, Psalm 111...the Torah and the Law, is attainable past, present and forever.)
To: neverdem
Nearly 450,000 new cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis are recorded each year; one-third of these people die from the disease. More than a quarter of new cases of TB identified recently in parts of Russia were of this troublesome kind.I spent over five months in the isolation ward with multidrug-resistant TB while they kept trying new antibiotic regimens that would have an effect on the strain I had. It was not a pleasant experience. Needless to say, I have pretty strong opinions about the abuse of antibiotics.
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posted on
04/05/2011 1:32:42 PM PDT
by
GATOR NAVY
("The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen." -Dennis Prager)
To: wolfman
“I wonder why the her doctors never recommended either for the problem.”
Because it doesn’t put any $$$ in their pockets, maybe.
To: neverdem
Superbugs are easily eradeicated with phages instead of antibiotics.
They are a non-issue.
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posted on
04/05/2011 2:25:17 PM PDT
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: neverdem
Superbugs are easily eradicated with phages instead of antibiotics.
They are a non-issue.
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posted on
04/05/2011 2:25:33 PM PDT
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Palter; Red Badger
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posted on
04/05/2011 9:20:24 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(Xin loi minh oi)
To: neverdem
We might have to go back to sulfa-drugs although there are some cases where side effects can be a problem, especially those with HIV.
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posted on
04/05/2011 9:21:02 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
To: All
In 2003, I slipped on ice getting out of my car and cut my left hand open on the pinky side on a nail or staple on my garage. I went to the ER and get my cut stitched plus an artery that was cut open. A week later, it was infected and I was taken into hospital a day after the shuttle Columbia blew up. I had to have it operated on to clean it out and I was on a strong antibiotic via IV. I was told I was lucky, I came close to losing part, if not all, of my hand. I was left with some nerve damage and a big scar on my hand. I stayed in hospital for 5 days, the county infection control doctor had to clear me for release. I was infected with strep.
A year earlier my aunt had a staph infection in her foot from a cortisone shot, she almost lost her foot.
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posted on
04/05/2011 9:33:41 PM PDT
by
Nowhere Man
(General James Mattoon Scott, where are you when we need you? We need a regime change.)
To: djf
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posted on
04/05/2011 11:06:28 PM PDT
by
cricket
(Osama - NOT made in the USA. . . .and Obama, not made i)n the USA either.. .)
To: blasater1960
Yes, twice daily for at-home IV. Have a picc in my arm for this.
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posted on
04/06/2011 6:42:46 AM PDT
by
Hulka
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