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Posted by: STONERS 2 years agoMore than 90,000 Americans get potentially deadly infections each year from a drug-resistant staph "superbug," the government reported Tuesday in its first overall estimate of invasive disease caused by the germ.
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STONERS
Oct. 16, 2007, 10:18 p.m."The overall incidence rate was about 32 invasive infections per 100,000 people. That's an "astounding" figure."
"Most drug-resistant staph cases are mild skin infections. But this study focused on invasive infections â;; those that enter the bloodstream or destroy flesh and can turn deadly."
"Researchers found that only about one-quarter involved hospitalized patients. However, more than half were in the health care system â;; people who had recently had surgery or were on kidney dialysis, for example. Open wounds and exposure to medical equipment are major ways the bug spreads."
"In recent years, the resistant germ has become more common in hospitals and it has been spreading through prisons, gyms and locker rooms, and in poor urban neighborhoods."
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BronxBomber
Oct. 16, 2007, 11:27 p.m.I'm not surprised, if you check around seem like when there's a new century millennium, there seems to be a new pandemic running breaking out, & leaving behind scores of victims in it's deadly wake. Seems like it's coming around again unfortunately.
:o(
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ekklesiawarrior
Oct. 17, 2007, 3:10 a.m.Old saying:
"Cleanliness is next unto Godliness"
has much applicable truths when it come to medical care.
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puffin
Oct. 17, 2007, 4 a.m.My brother-in-law was infected with a staph superbug, twice, after shooting himself in the head.
The first time was quite soon after the initial shooting but his skull cap never healed properly when it was first attached back on, and he got another superbug infection when he went in to have it repaired ... about a year later! He was in rough shape recently, though I don't think he really understands how serious it is/was. He basically lobotomized himself.
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natashas
Oct. 17, 2007, 6:55 a.m.I know this has always been a problem, but I am surprised about the number of people that this has effected.
Sorry about your brother puffin.
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dwemm
Oct. 17, 2007, 8:01 a.m.Similarly, my mother-in-law had a hip replacement surgery that got infected with superstaph, had it taken out and put back in five times. She still can't walk and is living on pain meds. She needs constant care now.
Sometimes we have to realize what real evil is, and for the most part it's not in people, it's in nature.
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Eagle_Eye
Oct. 17, 2007, 8:52 a.m.I contracted the MRSA when I visited a girl friend who was dying of breast cancer in the hospital 2 years ago. It kept being misdiagnosed for those 2 years as just a staph abcess infection and I would be put on antibiotics for 7-10 days.
This summer my husband had his kidney removed and contracted it from the hospital. This time the Doctors took me serious as we both had cultures done and it came back MRSA. Our Managing Physician was horrified to realize that he had not taken me serious in the past and put us both on high dose of antibiotics for 20 days. It is gone now but I am still dealing with the effects the high dose of antibiotics had on my body.
This bacterial infection is HELL!!! Any one who gets this is dealing with a serious life threatening bacteria that can not be killed with the standard 7-10 day antibiotics. You have to have 20 days of one type and then another 5 days of another antibiotic. This is where the biggest mistake is made by just giving standard doses.
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bumbaklotartattack
Oct. 17, 2007, 9:52 a.m.I thought America had the best healthcare. What's up? Idiots.
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ACTeeple
Oct. 17, 2007, 10:55 a.m.A few months back, Reader's Digest did a story of MRSA "super bug" infections outside of the hospital. It focused on the minority of cases that are not contracted in the hospital, so it did not mention how rampant this was IN the hospital. This just gives me another reason to add to my growing hospital phobia.
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Mutainia
Oct. 17, 2007, 1:37 p.m.There was a big, strong, young, healthy pastor of a church I use to attend about seven years ago. He got an infected with this, and, within a couple of days, he had litterally dissolved into a sort of black, bloody mush. I never met him, just heard of his passing. Sounded incredibly gruesome. It seems to be a reverse of AIDS, where, if you HAVE a great immune-system, the faster you go with it.
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ebud
Oct. 17, 2007, 2:56 p.m.the reason we have these "super bugs" is because of the public demanding their doctors give them antibiotics for every little cough and sneeze. Antibiotics are not effective for viral diseases such as colds and flu. They think they get better with the drugs because viral conditions start to improve and go away in 3 to 7 days on their own if there is no bacterial secondary infection. If you start to feel worse after 3 to 7 days, go see your doctor for the appropriate lab work. I am not a lay person with this info...I'm a nurse with 30 years of experience.
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slyboy2
Oct. 17, 2007, 2:57 p.m.Maybe I'm lucky and go to great hospitals or am blind and don't see what is going on. All I ever see in a hospitals is doctors and nurses cleaning their hands, putting on gloves and throwing away everything into the biohazord waste trash can when they are done. And yet to hear of all of these infections getting passed around in these health facilities just boggles my mind.
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Ciera-Marie
Oct. 17, 2007, 3:26 p.m.Good find STONERS.
Some of the advice that I've been reading regarding talking to doctors, tests you should have, etc includes this, if they don't wash their hands before they enter the room, watch to see if they it in the examining room before they touch you. If they don't ask them to wash their hands. I'd include nurse practitioners and nurses in this.
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joeblowe
Oct. 17, 2007, 3:30 p.m.Couple of things: They didn't seem to mention NURSING HOMES too prominently. My mother had a skin infection like this. When she was hauled to the hospital for treatment, the nursing home told her should COULD NOT come back until the MRSA had been cured. Totally overlooking that she had probably gotten it there in the first place. Older folk have weaker immune systems. And, she was diabetic to boot. Finally cost her a leg.
The deal about not overusing antibiotics is pure B.S. As one comment here notes, doctors don't tend to take SEEMINGLY ordinary infections too seriously. I expect you'd have to already be green or purple for a G.P. to start thinking you had something SERIOUS. The problem isn't overprescribing, it's UNDERPRESCRIBING. If every early infection had been aggressively treated with LARGER doses of antibiotic, the germ would never have had a chance to mutant to a resistant strain and the original dosage would have killed them ALL, instead of just the weaker ones.
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SAAB7699
Oct. 17, 2007, 4:32 p.m.I have heard that once someone gets a staph infection,it
never really goes away and could recur at any time.
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antitrust
Oct. 17, 2007, 6:21 p.m.Here at our office we had an employee who seemed healthy as a horse but unknowingly had MRSA. On a Monday he called in sick and by Wednesday he was in the hospital. That Friday he had died. In less then a week a man went from seemingly healthy to passing. The hospital sent our office a letter recommending anyone who had any physical contact or fluid exchange get checked out. As far as we know, he did not pass it to anyone.
R.I.P - David
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jaern
Oct. 17, 2007, 7:18 p.m.Try to remember this article the next time you call your doctor's office and demand antibiotics for a viral cold.
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puffin
Oct. 18, 2007, 2:19 a.m.Do any of you remember a particular BSE incident, where a lady had eaten some Mad Cow tainted meat 15 yrs prior to her child being born and when he was about 8 yrs old he got sick from the recessive bacteria? (I don't know if recessive is the right word) Scary that we can harbor such diseases until the time is exactly right for infection or transmission.
I'll have to see if I can find anything on that.
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