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CaliforniaLyme
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He has diabetes and he got infected from an operation on his hand
earlier this year and this is the third time he has had it now...
He gets really sick from it systemically and runs fevers and feels
awful. It is scary. I hate it. He is a sweetie. So he is back
on abx again too. I hope it goes away quickly this time and that
he is well again soon!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Chuck P Adams
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 5:00 pm Post subject:
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Sorry to hear that. I hope he gets better soon. |
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brent
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 6:48 pm Post subject:
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Friend had the same problem. She took silver and improved.
I would seriously look into taking this supplement. |
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CaliforniaLyme
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 10:21 pm Post subject:
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Thanks you guys!! Nope re silver- he is on antibiotics!!!!!!
Worked before- just wish it would never ever come back! |
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derdrittemann2003@yahoo.c
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 10:26 pm Post subject:
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CaliforniaLyme wrote:
| Quote: | Thanks you guys!! Nope re silver- he is on antibiotics!!!!!!
Worked before- just wish it would never ever come back!
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Close family member of mine also recently acquired an infection
subsequent to minor surgery...hospital stay.
Scary, because the hospital infections seem to be automatically e so
resistant, I guess...good luck, Cal, and hubby. |
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Greatcod
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| Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 11:29 pm Post subject:
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Sorry to hear about your husband. Its scary stuff. I know a person from
NYC who was in a hospital for 4-5 months because of it.
I have had lots of sinus infections during my Lymed years, and one time
a doctor prescribed a sulfa antibiotic, and it worked well.
Anybody know if MRSA is resistant to sulfa drugs? They are little used,
so maybe it is not. |
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Martijn
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Joined: 24 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 3:12 am Post subject:
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derdrittemann2003@yahoo.com wrote:
| Quote: | Close family member of mine also recently acquired an infection
subsequent to minor surgery...hospital stay.
Scary, because the hospital infections seem to be automatically e so
resistant, I guess...good luck, Cal, and hubby.
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Ironically, hospitals can be dangerous places to acquire infections.
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California lawmakers approve bill aimed at curbing deadly hospital
acquired infections:
http://www.consumersunion.org/pub/core_health_care/001321.html
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http://www.ulsterpublishing.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&articleID=349466
Health 8/4/2005
*Hospitals can be dangerous places*
by Aimee J. Frank
Nosocomial infection. It sounds like a terrible disease and it can be
serious. But the term refers not to a single illness but to any
infection that you contract in the hospital while being treated for
something else.
While people may go to the hospital to get well, two million patients
annually contract a disease in U.S. hospitals, and approximately 90,000
die as a result of their infections. In 2000, the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that nosocomial infections add
almost $5 billion to health care costs annually.
Most of the cost results from the additional days a patient must be
hospitalized for treatment of the hospital-acquired infection, depending
upon the illness contracted. Urinary tract infection can require an
additional one to four day stay in the hospital while bloodstream
infection or pneumonia can require additional hospital stays ranging
from seven to 30 days.
The problem is widespread enough that the federal government has
implemented campaigns to educate and encourage hospital personnel to
improve sanitary practices to avoid transmitting infections and several
states have passed laws requiring hospitals to track, report and
publicize their nosocomial infection rates.
INFECTION-TRACKING LAW PENDING IN NEW YORK
Legislation to require public reporting from hospitals statewide on
their nosocomial infection rates for specified surgical procedures is
awaiting the signature of Governor George Pataki in order to become law.
Bill sponsors argued that the law is necessary to protect state
residents. "Patients should not get sicker because of an infection they
get while hospitalized for some other medical problem," wrote bill
sponsors. "Making risk-adjusted data available to the hospital community
and the public will promote improvement in patient safety."
Among the types of infections that hospitals would be required to track
are surgical site infections, ventilator-associated pneumonia, central
line-related bloodstream infections and urinary tract catheter
infections, all of which are common hospital-acquired infections.
The data would have to be understandable to a lay audience and presented
by hospitals to the health commissioner and, in turn, to the governor
and legislature annually. The state health department would establish a
statewide database of all reported hospital acquired infection
information. Health department officials would also develop an auditing
process to assure the accuracy of the self-reported hospital data.
The public reporting is designed to both encourage hospitals to improve
their sanitary practices by publicizing their infection rates and to
give health care consumers vital information about whether their local
hospitals are doing enough to protect their health.
While a few states have already passed similar legislation, Pennsylvania
is the first to release the hospital data to the public. The findings
from that state may foreshadow those that will come to light in New York.
PENNSYLVANIA STORY
In January 2004, Pennsylvania hospitals began to report data on their
hospital-acquired infection rates as required by state law. The report
published last month by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment
Council (PHC4) from the collected 2004 data show that hospitals reported
11,668 hospital-acquired infections or 7.5 per 1,000 patients admitted
to the state's general acute care hospitals.
Of the affected patients, 15.4 percent or 1,793 patients died. An
additional 205,000 additional hospitals days were associated with these
cases, resulting in $2 billion in additional hospital charges.
The seriousness of the threat is clear when you consider that the
mortality rate for patients who did not contract a hospital-acquired
infection was only 2.4 percent, compared to the 15.4 percent who did
contract infections, an additional 1,510 additional deaths according to
the study.
Among the 11,668 patients with reported hospital-acquired
infections,1,317 contracted surgical site infections, 6,139 contracted
urinary tract infections, 1,335 contracted pneumonia and 1,932
contracted bloodstream infections.
Of the reported patient deaths, 446 resulted from bloodstream
infections, 423 from urinary tract infections and 393 from pneumonia.
PHC4 report authors suggest that nosocomial infections were probably
underreported in 2004, the first year such data had to be compiled.
Among the discrepancies noted by PHC4 was that the infection data
provided by the hospitals did not match the larger number of infections
that were billed for by the hospitals, according the report.
Study authors estimated the actual number of nosocomial infections could
have been as high as 115,631 compared to the hospital-reported figure of
11,668.
Similar in scope to New York's pending law, Pennsylvania requires
reporting on hospital-acquired surgical site infections,
catheter-associated urinary tract infection, ventilator-associated
pneumonia and central line-associated bloodstream infections. Beginning
January 2006 hospitals will be required to submit data on all nosocomial
infections.
DOUBLE THREAT
The CDC has made hospital-acquired infections a priority to improve
patient safety but also because of the rapid spread of
antibiotic-resistant infections in hospital and nursing home settings.
Public health care officials view the problems of drug-resistant
bacteria and hospital-acquired infection as the same problem because
more than 70 percent of the bacteria that cause nosocomial infections
are resistant to at least one of the drugs commonly used to treat the
disease.
Examples of such infections include Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus
Aureus (MRSA) and Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus (VRE), both of which
now frequently cause severe infections in hospitals - and, especially,
nursing homes - and are extremely difficult to treat.
CDC's Campaign to Prevent Antimicrobial Resistance relies on four
strategies: prevent infection; diagnose and treat infection effectively;
use antimicrobials wisely; and prevent transmission.
The campaigns twelve-step educational programs are designed to inform
clinicians about how to prevent the infection risks to the specific
patient populations with whom they work. Guidelines target, for example,
dialysis patients, surgical patients, long-term care patients and
hospitalized children and adults.
Many of the practices recommended to health care professionals are as
simple as improving hand hygiene, in other words, hand washing, one of
the most effective ways to prevent the spread of germs from one patient
to another. Other guidelines include more careful consideration of
antimicrobial drugs are used, effectively diagnosing and treating
infection and isolating infectious patients.
Removing medical devices from patients in a timely manner is a key CDC
recommendation.
Catheter insertion and removal is an example of one of the procedures in
which proper attention might prevent hospital-acquired infections.
Hospital-acquired urinal tract infections too frequently occur because
doctors forget to give orders to remove a patient's catheter after it is
no longer needed. A recent study by the University of Michigan Health
System found that simply having hospital personnel use reminders to
notify them when to remove a patient's catheter reduced the amount of
time catheters remained in patients and therefore the risk of the
patient contracting infection.
INFORMED CONSENT
If implemented and publicized properly, the pending hospital reporting
law could provide New York state residents with the information they
need to make sound decisions about where they will go to seek hospital
treatment for non-emergent procedures.
The publicity should also go far to encourage hospitals to adopt, if
they have not already, more stringent infection control practices.
New York's proposed legislation was sent to Pataki in early July for his
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Martijn
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| Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2005 3:13 am Post subject:
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Good luck for your husband. |
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Chuck P Adams
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 9:28 am Post subject:
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Just to point out something, you notice some regular posters (Kathleen,
CALC) who did not give Sarah any kind words of support ?
As I said before, Kathleen only cares about herself and never cared
about anyone else in her life as you can clearly see.
The CALC imposter is to busy bashing her poor husabnd with off topic
Jewish rants , so you know she could care less.
Sarah, I will send some prayers at Church today. I hope things will get
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eugeneshapiroisapig
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| Posted: Sun Oct 30, 2005 9:53 pm Post subject:
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chuck, do you ever worry that someday you'll be walking down the street
and someone will walk up behind you and blow your head off with a
shotgun without you ever knowing it happened?
just curious. |
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