dumb idea of the year send MSRA infected patients home....

[strmrdr]

typo: that should be MRSA not MSRA....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jan/07/mrsa.treatment
Save money at the risk of spreading a super-bug into the general population.

while doing other dumb things to look like they are trying too fix it:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jan/04/mrsa.health



Its all ready bad enough that it kills millions of people in hospitals each year.

All the while that's going on funding is being stripped from anti-biotic research into BS global warming research.
http://www.idsociety.org/Content.aspx?id=5558

and yea I'm rather bitter about it for good reason....

 

[Mrs Mitchell]

Startling, to say the least. Send people home with this bug? Are they insane?

A friend of mine lost her father to this last year and it was totally preventable. Just heartbreaking.

SOunds like you have experience of this too, Strmrdr. I hope you are ok?

Jen

 

[San Diego Bride]

tough topic, partially because there's MRSA and then then there's MRSA. some folks are just colonized with it and it's not posing a threat, others have a potentially deadly infection so it's really difficult to generalize. sending some home may not be as dumb as it may sound once you know more details, ie: they are no longer contagious, are medically stable, and are on therapy that can be finished at home. a lot of things can be done at home these days, including iv antibiotics. i do agree that we need more research dollars, not less though, and we need to be a lot judicious about our use of antibiotics. you shouldn't take antibiotics every time you cough or sneeze.

 

[strmrdr]

Date: 1/7/2008 11:37:24 AM
Author: Mrs Mitchell
Startling, to say the least. Send people home with this bug? Are they insane?

A friend of mine lost her father to this last year and it was totally preventable. Just heartbreaking.

SOunds like you have experience of this too, Strmrdr. I hope you are ok?

Jen

My mom died of it.
She might not have made it anyway but when it kicked in there wasn''t a chance.
I caught a bronkitis bug that wasn''t mrsa but was resistant too 3 antibiotics from the nursing home she was at that left one lung badly damaged.
My whole family got it but because I had a cold at the time it was going around it took hold worse but they kicked it fairly quickly.
Took over 6 months too mostly recover from it except for some scar tissue blocking the bottom of one lung.