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How and why you need to learn about this spreading CA-MRSA.
Infection spreading in hospitals are moving out and spreading into
our community. It is important you don't come in caontact and allove
these bacteria to colonize in your nose and hand.
MRSA
educates other non-virulaent bacteria to become resistant organism.
They are now said to be resistant to
antiseptics, disinfectants.
People
visiting hospitals and clinics are more likely get colonized but
data published in medical literature show the number of people with
this bacteria is almost similar in non-hospitalised health adults. Work place,
your home will be common in the future. If
you are working in a crowded office infection will
spread around.
Watch
all practical procedure performed in hospital very carefully.
Injection sites, cannula, catheters and even performing simple blood
test will increase your risk. Staff are washing their hands and
wearing a glove, please watch what they do after wearing a glove. If
the operator touches your unsterile skin or the bed, please ask them
to wash again and change their glove, "It's your life and not
their"..
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Hospital
You are more likely to get infected when in
hospitals or even a the surgery. These infections are passed on from
person to person due to poor hand washing technique. Nurses and
doctors often wash their hands or use alcohol gel.
Medical journals are saturated with articles
warning people not to use low dose antibiotic or antiseptic hand
wash. One of the reason the staff working in hospitals are colonised
with antibiotic resistant bacteria is because they wash their hands
often but very quickly.
If you are infected, making complaints, and
looking for something to be done about them, it is always advisable
to approach the matter initially without aggression, and with an
understanding of the position of the staff. If you need to raise a
concern or make a complaint in a hospital the first person you
should approach is the ward-sister. If you are not satisfied with
the response, please contact the consultant or ask for a
microbiologist or the person in charge of infection control......
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Prevention
Learn more about how this infection spreads in your office and
how you can reduce the risk of catching infections.
Our advice is based on scientific evidence and not commercially
driven. We strongly advice you not to spend money to seek help on
risk management and re-decoration.
Simple precautions and strict hand washing using soap and water
help. Spending money on heavy cleaning equipment and deep cleaning
does not reduce spread but found to increase infections.
Introducing bacteria into your blood or dislodging them from
their
bio-films can be lethal. Using ported cannula and administering
antibiotics via port is likely to produce in phlebitis and
bacteraemia resulting in kill your patient.
Avoid
coming in contact with this bacteria, if you think you have an
infected skin condition, please see your doctors and ask if this is
CA-MRSA skin infection. You must remember its not only your life but
also your family and friends are at risk.....
Wasted medical dollers
"To Wash or Not To Wash" This is a worrying
development
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How can you identify your colleague could be a carrier or you have an
infection which need treatment and isolation?
Staphylococcus aureus is the predominant organism (70 to 80%)
in surgical infections, with other mixed flora cultured in 10% to
11% of cases, streptococci in 9% to 10%, gram-negative bacilli in 3%
to 6%, and enterococci in 3% to 7%,
Children get cuts and bruises after falling down which may get
infected. These skin infections were trivial problem in the past
because they responded to local antibiotic (Bactrian, Fucidin) or
oral antibiotics, but now it is a major problem.
Here we are publishing information about various skin lesions which
are infected with CA-MRSA. These pictures will help you keep away
from infected people or prevent the spread and early detection can reduce major out break as we don't have a cure.............
Do No Harm
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News
We are updating news about spreading infections locally and
nationally. Please let us know if you identify useful information
and email us a link to
Medifix
Our mission is to share information about the bacteria, treatment
and advances to help you know what is going on in your community and
nationally.
We feel the news papers are publishing information that are
commercially driven and not in the interest of our community.
At times of crisis, the best thing you can do is to learn from
others mistake, past experience and failures..........
"To
wash or not to wash" Please read this article which makes
us think hard and is worrying
Do No Harm
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