In article <lSxXg.6278$Lv3.3111@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>,
"David Cohen" <sammiesdad.DeleteThis@earthlink.net> wrote:
> "DZ" <32185.DeleteThis@2589824344.63158027.18379.27319.24130> wrote
> > Bill.K9KZ.DeleteThis@gmail.com <Bill.K9KZ.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> "One in 20 patients, or about 2 million a year, contracts an infection
> >> in the hospital each year, and about 90,000 die as a result, estimates
> >> the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
> >
> > Could it be that 1 in 20 "hospital-ready" people would contract
> > infections anyway, even if they didn't go to a hospital?
>
> That certainly is part of it: a weakened, immune-compromised, population.
>
> But it's an open "joke" that one we've fixed a patient's acute problem, we
> need to get them discharged quickly before they get sick and end up staying,
> or end up dead.
>
> Lots of weakened, immune-compromised, people, with all kinds of invasive
> barrier-busting devices sticking out of their bodies, cared for and dealt
> with by people...doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, phlebotomists,
> physical therapists, even housekeepers and janitorial personnel...who go
> from one sick person's room to another, carting microorganisms
> along...combined with the skyrocketing number of multi drug resistant
> critters...is a recipe for disaster, and the epidemic of nosocomial
> infections is that disaster.
>
> David
Indeed...
David, you may be interested in this article I got via e-mail the other
day. Speaking of MRSA and VRE:
From: "Tradingpost"
Date: Wed Oct 4, 2006 10:30:57 US/Central
To: OWL-OldWaysLiving.DeleteThis@yahoogroups.com
Subject: (")OWL(") Garlic Blasts Worst Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria
Reply-To: OWL-OldWaysLiving.DeleteThis@yahoogroups.com
Garlic Blasts Worst Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria
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Crush garlic 20 minutes before eating it...
This creates more beneficial chemical compounds
10-2-6
CHICAGO (UPI) - Microbiology researchers said Wednesday the active
ingredient in garlic combats two of the nastiest antibiotic resistant
microbes faced by doctors and patients. The ingredient, a substance know
as allicin, has been found effective in killing off methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus -- a microbe that has been especially troubling in
skin and soft tissue wounds -- and in inhibiting growth of
vancomycin-resistant enterococci, an intestinal bacteria that causes
considerable illness and deaths in hospital settings. "Allicin simply
blows enormous holes through MRSA,' said Ronald Cutler, senior lecturer
in
microbiology at the University of East London, England. He has formulated
allicin into skin products such as creams and soaps and has achieved
success in destroying the microbes in laboratory tests. He said he also
tested the cream on healthy volunteers -- including himself -- and "we
have found absolutely no adverse reactions." Cutler, and his commercial
venture Allicin International Ltd., are beginning human testing with the
allicin cream on patients with stubborn skin infections caused by MRSA.
"What happens in a test tube may not occur when it is used in humans,"
cautioned Dr. Jaya Prakash, chairperson of the department of pathology,
microbiology and public health at National University of Health Sciences,
Lombard, Ill. Prakash is experimenting with allicin in thwarting VRE. "We
have shown that we can inhibit the growth of these bacteria with allicin.
Some of the isolates are more stubborn than others," she said, but at 150
micrograms of allicin the bacteria cannot proliferate. She said humans
can
ingest about 25 grams a day of garlic without ill effects, and that much
garlic contains about 15 milligrams of allicin -- about 100 times more
than what she used to control VRE. Methicillin and vancomycin both are
powerful antibiotics that for many years were considered among the last
medical defenses against vicious microbes such as S. aureus. In recent
years, however, both S. aureus and enterococci have developed mutations
that allow the bugs to escape the killing power of these antibiotics.
Both
organisms are multi-drug resistant. The studies were presented at the
annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy,
a
meeting sponsored by the American Society of Microbiology in Chicago. In
Prakash's study, allicin was tested against two normal strains of
Enterococci fecalis and 24 vancomycin-resistant strains of E. fecalis.
The
allicin concentrations stopped growth of the microbes within four hours.
Cutler said concentrations of allicin at levels of 32 parts per million
in
a liquid or cream formulation were sufficient to inhibit MRSA. The cream
he tested on himself contained 500 parts per million of allicin. Prakash
said that before calling the substance "Allicin Wonderdrug" a lot of
clinical testing still must be accomplished
garlic also blasts vampires--parasites and keeps your intestines
healthy. eat as much as you can stomach---it is amongst nature`s
finest!!!
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