This Is Scary

(Michael - When reality fails to meet expectations, the problem is not reality.) #1

If you want to ruin your Thanksgiving dinner read this summary.

(Full Metal KETO AF) #2

Mike the superbug thing is scary. I had MRSA once, for 5 years and it took another surgery to get rid of it because of stupid doctors. I ended up having to go to Stanford University Hospital.

And four years ago on Peritoneal Dialysis my catheter broke and I got an amped up tuberculosis superbug infection in my peritoneum. The IV antibiotic I had to use for 4 months caused a 35% loss of hearing in one month. Nasty scary stuff.:skull:

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(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #3

Doctors used to give women Diflucan every time they handed out an antibiotic Rx, now there are super yeast causing infections women can’t get rid of. They over medicated kids with a the common cold caused by a virus for years. Parents and teachers squirted little hands with hand sanitizer 100 times a day.

Let kids eat dirt, pick their nose and eat their boogers. Allow healthy adults to suffer through their viruses instead of giving everyone a Z pack. As a former nurse I saw what MRSA, VRE and C-Diff can do to a human. I have to be pretty darn sick to swallow an antibiotic, anti-fungal or anti-viral now.

I get that the article states that it is in our drinking water and food. But there are steps we can take to help protect ourselves from antibiotic resistance.

(Full Metal KETO AF) #4

@PetaMarie When I was growing up it seemed like anything that was wrong with me like the flu or something I got a penicillin shot. When I was 20 I developed a severe reaction to ampicillin when I had a nasty case of bronchitis. I think that the problem started with overuse of antibiotics in the early years of their availability. It was considered totally safe then and used for anything as a precaution incase you might have some bacterial infection even when it was obviously viral. Overuse caused people to develop allergies and the germs to develop resistance to the drugs. Then when we need the drugs they don’t work.

Then came the hand sanitizers and anti bacterial soaps as you mentioned. I like what you said about the dirty kids although I never ate my boogers! But I did play in alleys and rummage through trash and all kinds of dirty stuff that gave me a cast iron immune system as an adult. I almost never get sick when the cold and flu season hits. I can’t remember the last time I got the flu. I have had to take flu vaccine for the last few years but I never did for years. I’m on a full spectrum of immune suppression drugs now for two years and I take care of my son when he’s sick and his mom and her husband are both sick too. I never catch it even with him touching my face and stuff. I guess I’m lucky like that.

The infections that I have had were mostly gotten by sloppy medical procedures or hospital germs when I was in for surgery like the MRSA infection I had in my amputation. The surgeon said it was too risky to clean up and suggested I just live with it because if he couldn’t remove an arterial graph and close the artery he might have to amputate at the hip. After 5 years of extreme grossness that I will spare you the details of I got an appointment at Stanford and the vascular surgeon was pissed that I was told to live with MRSA. I was a walking MRSA factory. Surgical cleanup of destroyed tissue and a special regimen of antibiotics which took a panel of Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease doctors to analyze my case to determine the proper cocktail to kill the infection. I was healed in about a week after living with that for years. Some doctors are real idiots. I trust the doctors at Stanford and the cleanliness of that hospital. I refuse to get surgery here in Santa Cruz because our hospital is a true nightmare and danger zone. I’ll only get outpatient or emergency room services there. :cowboy_hat_face: