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Biotech / Medical : THE CLOWN FREE STAPH INFECTION ZONE -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Box-By-The-Riviera™ who wrote (17)	3/12/2007 2:08:02 PM
From: HairBall	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27

Box: MRSA is hard to avoid if you are hospitalized. Just because you don't show symptoms, doesn't mean you did not get it. My mother had a couple of strokes a few years ago, eventually ending up in a nursing care facility as she was paralyzed on her right side and could no longer speak nor eat. Under the care of this worthless but expensive nursing home, she ended up with pressure sores on her heals (often referred to as bed sores). One of her legs became infected with MRSA. Until she was readmitted back to a hospital due to a chest infection, we had no idea she had pressure sores much less sores in the category three and four range. Plus her right foot had become infected with MRSA and had begun to work its way up past her ankle. The specialist in the hospital wanted to amputate both of her feet, but she was in such bad condition they said she could only survive the amputation of one foot. We elected to get a second opinion and moved her to a hospital that specializes in pressure sores. The second hospital after determining that mom would not survive the amputation of even one foot, set out to improve her condition with out surgery. They worked miracles and managed dramatic improvements in her sores and managed to arrest and roll back her infection. Mom eventually was transferred back to a different nursing home, where she managed to keep breathing for a few more months. As soon as the first hospital determined mom was infected with MRSA from that point forward we had to put on protective gloves, mask and gowns before we could enter her room and she was roomed by herself. We would then have to remove this protective gear as we exited her room and throw it away in specially marked containers. From my observation of doctors, nurses and housekeeping staff at the two hospitals and two nursing homes mom spent her last days in, I learned first hand that doctors, nurses and housekeeping staff more often than not failed to take the same precaution we were required to take as they entered and exited mom's room, thus exposing other patients and visitors alike to MRSA after they left mom's room. I am sure this was not isolated behavior. I was told by one of the section head nurses that MRSA healthy individuals can be infected with no symptoms. MRSA will remain dormant until the infected individual becomes less health, often from just growing older. As their immune system weakens, MRSA rears its ugly head. Per this nurse, she said many hospital staff and nursing home staff were infected with MRSA and would likely have to deal with MRSA once they grow older. LG