Community | April 09, 2011 | 53 comments

Antibiotic Superbugs CRKP & MRSA

source: http://health.yahoo.net/experts/dayinhealth/antibiotic-superbugs-crkp-mrsa-risk

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Misuse of antibiotics has led to a global health threat: the rise of dangerous—or even fatal—superbugs. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is now attacking both patients in hospitals and also in the community and a deadly new multi-drug resistant bacteria called carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, or CRKP is now in the headlines. Last year, antibiotic resistant infections killed 25,000 people in Europe, the Guardian reports.

Unless steps are taken to address this crisis, the cures doctors have counted on to battle bacteria will soon be useless. CRKP has now been reported in 36 US states—and health officials suspect that it may also be triggering infections in the other 14 states where reporting isn’t required. High rates have been found in long-term care facilities in Los Angeles County, where the superbug was previously believed to be rare, according to a study presented earlier this month. CRKP is even scarier than MRSA because the new superbug is resistant to almost all antibiotics, while a few types of antibiotics still work on MRSA. Who’s at risk for superbugs—and what can you do to protect yourself and family members? Here’s a guide to these dangerous bacteria.

Understanding different types of bacteria.

What is antibiotic resistance? Almost every type of bacteria has evolved and mutated to become less and less responsive to common antibiotics, largely due to overuse of these medications. Because superbugs are resistant to these drugs, they can quickly spread in hospitals and the community, causing infections that are hard or even impossible to cure. Doctors are forced to turn to more expensive and sometimes more toxic drugs of last resort. The problem is that every time antibiotics are used, some bacteria survive, giving rise to dangerous new strains like MRSA and CRKP, the CDC reports.

What are CRKP and MRSA? Klebsiella is a common type of gram-negative bacteria that are found in our intestines (where the bugs don’t cause disease). The CRKP strain is resistant to almost all antibiotics, including carbapenems, the so-called “antibiotics of last resort.” MRSA (methacillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus) is a type of bacteria that live on the skin and can burrow deep into the body if someone has cuts or wounds, including those from surgery.

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53 comments // Antibiotic Superbugs CRKP & MRSA

  • Jweezy
  • tommic
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      tommic  

    • I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but mankind will eventually meet a virus that decimates population. It's happened many times before in human history and will again. Just the facts. it does not matter what science does, birds, pigs, mosquito's and ticks along with lice and mice and rats will harbor and build a deadly virus one day that mankind will be totally unprepared for. All I can say is to young people, you had better start to put your trust in something other than the private sector, they will not save you. All of you had better become very active in Government, at least voting if nothing else. Truth, the whole truth and nuthin but the truth

    • 1 year ago
  • ninetyseven
  • tommic
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      tommic  
    • ninetyseven:

      I had to say it, the answer will come from CDC or a foreign equivalent. The private sector will not save you. Does someone think big pharma is going to? I don't think so, as a matter of facr I know so.

    • 1 year ago
  • MizPiz
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      MizPiz  

    • You know. Bring it on. We're obviously too incompetent to put the well being of our species in front of entities we created, so fuck it. Let's wipe ourselves out.

    • 1 year ago
  • MizPiz
  • ninetyseven
  • ahiguy
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      ahiguy  

    • Look into the anti-bacterial, anti-fungal and anti-viral properties of Oil of Oregano... the answer to a host of anti-bacterial problems that 'Big Pharma' would rather have you ignorant about !

    • 1 year ago
  • samthesixth
  • Numbz
  • Toughth
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      Toughth  

    • As far as the superbug MRSA is concerned, I have first hand experiance, I spent over a year in agony last year due to pain that felt like a Zulu spear was shoived from the middle of my spine to my abdomen. I was in and out of the local ER 7 times befor the discovery of a MRSA abcess around my mid spine after a 12 hr surgury, and 2 gallons of infection removed as well as five spines fused, I am now like a polio victim and after seven months of rehab I can use a walker, barely. SSID says that I am not diasabled. and they are making me jump thru hoops.

    • 1 year ago
  • samthesixth
  • tommic
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      tommic  
    • Toughth:

      Get yourself a disability lawyer, SSID will deny every first claim, you are going to have to appeal. The lawyer should ask for no more than 25% of your first lump sum payment, which is based from the moment you first applied for SSID. It's well worth it.

    • 1 year ago
  • ninetyseven
  • ninetyseven
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      ninetyseven  
    • tommic:

      you need a doctor to say you are disabled and when your approved ...they go back 1 year from the time your Classified..
      Its called "ONSET DATE".BUT they have a 5 month waiting period...really sucks...they give you a year backwards but ..keep 5 months for themselves.

    • 1 year ago
  • Debra_
  • letsliveinpeace
  • letsliveinpeace
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      letsliveinpeace  

    • Thanks for posting this, The nine people, CBS News Correspondent Mark Strassmann reported on "The Early Show," ranged in age from 38 to 94 and were all given a tainted nutritional supplement. However, because the patients were so sick, no one may ever definitely say whether they died from a super-bug infection or from other health issues.

      Ten other patients were sickened, but survived, after they consumed the same supplement.

      Through the I-V, the bacteria, called "serratia mercescens," often found in water, went directly into the patients' bloodstream. They were all very sick, fragile patients to begin with.

      One Birmingham pharmacy, MEDS IV, made all the tainted feeding supplement. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is leading the investigation, as it did five years ago, when the same bacteria infected a dozen patients in California and New Jersey.

    • 1 year ago
  • jubal
  • tommic
    • +1
      tommic  

    • The very reason after any surgery to piss asap, walk asap, and get the hell out of the hospital, it's where they are the worst

    • 1 year ago
  • samthesixth
  • KB723
  • KSirys
  • KB723
  • crash_text_dummy
  • Gravity_Man
  • bundlebear
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      bundlebear  

    • when i worked at the hospital i had to swab new patients noses for MRSA and if it showed positive for MRSA the hospital wouldn't be at fault if for any complications if a patient got MRSA while in the hospital. out of those patients that i swabbed close to 50% to 60% came back positive for MRSA

    • 1 year ago
  • crash_text_dummy
  • Cruzankenny
  • bundlebear
  • Cruzankenny
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      Cruzankenny  
    • bundlebear:

      That's what I was thinking.
      Seems like the Healthcare profession itself is getting more risky as time goes on.
      I would think the lifespan of a hospital or surgical center would become limited as time went by and the chance for residual infection became more likely.

    • 1 year ago
  • KB723
  • samthesixth
  • twinite
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      twinite  

    • My job entails providing medical transport for some of my clients, and every time I have to go in a hospital or doctors office, I can almost feel the germs around me. I'm not a germ phobe....but those things will do some serious damage now days.

    • 1 year ago
  • PoliticalAmazon
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      PoliticalAmazon  
    • twinite:

      If you haven't read it, do now--"The Coming Plague" by Laurie Garret. It was written awhile back, but it is still very pertinent to what we are experiencing now. It reads like a mystery novel. The science is very accessible. She won a Pullitzer for it.

      Hospitals, nursing homes, transitional-care facilities---all are hot-beds for bacteria, fungus and viruses.

      The Klebsiella pneumoniae is an intestinal bacteria, and it the multi-drug resistant variety going around now became what it is now in nursing-home environments, where diapers are being changed, etc.

      When in the hospital, remember to touch as little as possible. When you use the restroom, use a piece of paper-towel to open the door as you leave. Door-knobs and phones are common places for critters to collect. When you go to get blood drawn in the lab, don't touch anything you don't have to, including magazines and other stuff in the waiting room.

      There are signs all over the place about washing hands after using the restroom, but then you touch that filthy door-knob, which has a collection of everyone's bugs on it.

      I got an infection in a surgical wound, and it was susceptible to one drug: nafcillin. I was on that medication, via an IV pump, which I carried on my person 24/7, for 6 weeks. It was delivered via an arterial line that went in one arm, through the veins in the chest to the other arm, where the two access ports were located.

      Before this infection, I just didn't get sick. I can't remember the last time I had an infection of any type before this surgical-wound infection. I don't get the flu, other viruses, and have never had a flu shot.

    • 1 year ago
  • twinite
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      twinite  
    • PoliticalAmazon:

      Thanks so much for the info. I've been using paper towels to flush toilets and open doors in public places forever.

      A dear friend of mine went into a hospital years ago for knee surgery and died from Steph....I take these things very serious.

    • 1 year ago
  • Fatalism
  • damush
  • crash_text_dummy
  • bailey78
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      bailey78  

    • This just scares the hell out of me. i don't go to a hospital for any reason. I've not seen a doctor in years. just because i know how my luck runs. Go in for a simple check up die four days later of some weird ass shit. nope not me folks i will stay home and play russian roulette. i like the odds much better.

    • 1 year ago
  • artemis6
  • crash_text_dummy
  • dalistuff
  • kennymotown
  • Gravity_Man
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      Gravity_Man  
    • kennymotown:

      They're in the ground => they told us it was coming from the GROUND in the movie Tremors. The water table stuffed with antibiotics has become our SUPER-BUG-INCUBATOR.

      Humanity has a few months remaining to live. Square One.

    • 1 year ago
  • ThatCrazyLibertarian
  • mspray11
  • bailey78
  • joeeddy
  • KSirys
  • EdJoyProductions
  • bailey78
  • KSirys
    • +1
      KSirys  
    • EdJoyProductions:

      the sad thing about all of this is that we only know of these two. Who knows how many more are there that the government is not telling us or hiding because they are responsible for creating...

    • 1 year ago
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