Posted on 05/28/2011 9:37:39 AM PDT by george76
An Aurora woman said she was turned away by a doctor for a pain injection because her home is infested with bed bugs.
Christine Lewis was set for a spinal injection at the Medical Center of Aurora South. She said everything was going fine until a nurse asked her about the bug bites that covered her arms.
Lewis said she was denied the injection and treatment. She said her doctor showed her the door. “He made the comment, he's like, it could be in your hair, it could be in your clothes and we can't have you bring that into our operating room,”
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The patient is advised to have a licensed pest control company inspect and treat their home. If the home is still infested, the patient is encouraged to store a set of clothes for medical appointments in a sealed plastic bag. Those clothes should be sealed immediately after they are washed and dried on high heat.
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>>I do not like to shake hands with people who are constantly coughing and it puts you on the spot and makes you look anti-social when you do not. (Social-engineering at its finest).<<
Hold your purse in your right hand and a tissue in your left. If someone wants to shake hands refuse saying, “I’m afraid I’ll give you my cold.”
Any responsible medical doctor would not want his office infested with bedbugs.
It is up to the patient to treat themselves when they have a bedbug or lice infestation.
If they have no shame, and are willing to infect a hospital- then all I have to say is that they are trash.
Hospital personnel have better things to do than to debug patients who come in for an elective procedure.
Advice--leave all luggage and goods outside in the sunlight if you can, vacuum all around the seams, take laundry in a load at a time and wash it on hot. Make them all take a shower. They have a pretty good flea/bedbug spray out at Lowes. Use up a few cans.
Let 'em call you crazy--because as soon as they live with an infestation, they won't call you crazy anymore.
My wife and I travel every year. We have stayed in motels all over the U.S. I can’t stand staying in motels.
There are many reasons I bought an Airstream travel trailer... this would be one!
I see a new Strauss-Kahn defense in there somewhere..."The bedbugs made me do it!" Or, "The bedbugs transferred my DNA to the maid!" Etc.
It’s Aurora, george76. ;-)
Aurora’s like the Star Wars canteen.
I bring my hands together in a position of prayer, thumbs against chest, and give something between a deep nod and a shallow bow. And I know where the hand sanitizer dispensers are strategically located around the church for those circumstances where I absolutely have to shake.
There’s something to be said for home worship.
When my son was little, he was bringing home head lice fairly often, and then he brought home intestinal worms. Both were disgusting. I didn’t see the head lice until he crawled in bed with me for a cuddle. Great! I treated the whole family, washed all the bedding in hot water and dried on high heat. Sprayed all the furniture. I also notified everybody he had been in contact with. I remembered seeing his little friend borrow his bike helmet the day before. I had to swallow my pride and call his Mom.
I understand these bedbugs are especially hard to get rid of. Sounds like the lady in the article needs to call in the pros to get rid of them.
Would you want to have surgery in a hospital with a bedbug infection? Not too sterile!
The History of Bed Bugs:
Bed bugs have been around for centuries. Documentation reaching as far back as the 17th century has told about infestations of bed bugs. In the United States, bed bugs were very common until about World War II. With the introduction of such pesticides as DDT, a great decrease in infestations occurred. It was not until the last decade that reported cases gave an indication of a possible rise in bed bug infestations.
Authorities believe that the rise in reports can be attributed to the extermination tactics of pest control today. Today, many pest control experts use baiting tactics for in home infestations of such things as ants, roaches, and spiders. These baiting tactics work well for their intended subjects, but since bed bugs are blood feeders, they do not fall for the baiting tricks used. This change in exterminating technique has contributed to the rise in reported bed bug infestations. More on the history of bed bugs.
Frankly, I wonder why infestations are not even more pervasive. You know how college guys live, and the places they go and the lack of hygiene...my curiosity is why haven’t we heard about massive infestations in college dorms?
they are running rampart
I used to be one of those kids that ran behind our local bug sprayer DDT fogger and I’m still alive today !
I bet they would also take care of bed bugs and
West Nile virus!
Weren’t bed bugs found to carry MRSA?
yes that is correct!
Yes, but to be cautious and conservative, a few of the bugs themselves had the bacteria on their bodies. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean they are likely carriers. There’s plenty of reason to be concerned about bedbugs, but we shouldn’t behave like all the chicken littles out there who got DDT banned in the first place.
I said that the doctor should have found some way to treat her, e.g. by decontaminating her first, burning her clothes, etc. But P-Marlowe was right about the fact that, because she was there for elective surgery, not for bedbug treatment, he was under no ethical or professional obligation to treat her at all. I stand corrected in that regard.
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