MRSA outbreaks - How to get proactive

[coffeeseven]

There's been a couple of cases of MRSA in the public schools district here where I'm at. As a courtesy I e-mailed (essentially) my original post on this thread to Mary Fisher, Health Services Supervisor for our public school district. I'd like to share the cut and pasted response I received today:

Thanks for the note
mary

She didn't even take the care to put a period at the end of the single sentence or capitalize her proper name. Maybe she attended the public school she now works for?

I'm in the circular bin now baby!! 

[kola]

This is one coffee that won't be going up anyones butt. 

btw, no cream and sugar..black.

If you research the effects of coffee enemas you will find it has little to do with "bowel cleansing" and much more to do with jump starting the liver which fires up immune function. Dr Gerson has proven this. It is a shame the AMA and its  corrupt bullies have brainwashed folks into injecting poision in their blood (chemo) and scaring folks from doing a simple enema.

Kola   

[coffeeseven]

http://www.dailyindia.com/show/186700.php/Volcanic-clay-found-to-kill-99-per-cent-of-MRSA-superbugs

London, October 29: Dirt that originated in French volcanoes has the potential to kill up to 99 per cent of colonies of bugs like MRSA and E coli within 24 hours, say scientists.

The researchers believe that agricur, found in the Massif Central mountain range, may pave the way for the creation of antibiotics to which superbugs have no resistance.

They said that the clay was found to wipe out bug colonies in a day during laboratory experiments. They also revealed that control samples of MRSA, which were not treated with agricur, grew 45-fold over the same period.

Other deadly bacteria such as salmonella and a flesh-eating disease called buruli, which is a relative of leprosy, were killed by the clay during the experiments.

It was French doctor Line Brunet de Course who first discovered the healing properties of French green clays, mostly made of minerals called smectite and illite. She used it to fight buruli at clinics in Ivory Coast and Guinea.

The World health Organisation welcomed her work when she approached it in 2002 with 50 case studies. However, it denied her funding because of a lack of scientific evidence.

Brunet de Course's son Thierry searched for scientists willing to test agricur after his mother's death, and found an associate in Dr Lynda Williams of Arizona State University, a specialist in the study of clay.

Dr. Williams and her colleague Dr Shelley Haydel will presented their findings about agricur and other clays to the Geological Society of America's annual meeting in Denver.

The scientists are still unclear as to how agricur treats MRSA and other infections. They believe that the efficacy of agricur in treating superbugs may be based on the involvement of more than one component.

"We have found several anti-bacterial clays that appear to transfer unidentified elements to the bacteria that impede their metabolic function," the Daily Mail quoted Dr Williams, a minerals expert, as saying.

"It is possible that it is not one single element that is toxic to the bacteria, but a combination of elements and chemical conditions that attack the bacteria from different angles so as to overwhelm their defence systems," she added.

The researchers also backed the possibility that the clay worked through a physical rather than a biochemical process, meaning that bacteria could never develop resistance. "It's fascinating. Here we are bridging geology, microbiology, cell biology. A year ago, I'd look at the clay and say, 'Well, that's dirt,'" Dr Haydel, a microbiologist, said.


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[KBCraig]

"Smectite"? Sounds like that is an infection, not a cure! 

[coffeeseven]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/southeastkingcountynews/2004004965_mrsa11s.html


Kent schools take different approach to MRSA cases

By Karen Johnson

Times Southeast Bureau

Should you be worried about MRSA?
The staph infection known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, has been around for years. Health officials say the infection is usually treatable and is easily kept from spreading. Here are a few tips to avoid spreading it:

Evaluation: If you have a skin infection, visit your doctor as soon as possible.

Wound care: If you are diagnosed with MRSA, keep open and draining wounds covered to reduce the risk of spreading the infection. If the wound cannot be covered, avoid contact with others until it is healed.

Hygiene and prevention: Wash hands frequently, and regularly clean and disinfect objects that have frequent contact with skin, including gym equipment and towels. If a surface comes into contact with MRSA, scrub the area with detergent-based cleaner-disinfectants that are approved by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Source: Public Health — Seattle & King County

Early Monday morning, news of staph infections at Kentlake High School and Mattson Middle School, both in the Kent School District, spread quickly.

Three people told the district they had contracted methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, a form of staph infection that is highly resistant to antibiotics.

District officials reported the cases to Public Health — Seattle & King County.

Cleaning crews disinfected classrooms and scrubbed high-traffic areas, and the district sent letters home, explaining how the infection is contracted and how to avoid spreading it.

But unlike school officials in Port Townsend, who canceled the final football game of the season, and closed a preschool class at Grant Street Elementary for two days because two people were believed to have the infection, Kent officials opted to keep schools open.

Health departments do not require schools to close if MRSA is reported there.

Most health departments do not recommend school closures as a way to deal with MRSA, but it is up to district officials to decide whether to close a school.

Kent School District officials consulted the health department and decided not to cancel classes at Kentlake and Mattson, district spokeswoman Becky Hanks said.

"We chose to use it as an opportunity to educate people," Hanks said.

James Apa, spokesman for the health department, said the bacteria is killed through simple hygiene, such as washing hands and covering infections.

The district was not required to report the MRSA cases to health officials, Hanks said, but news reports that a Federal Way man died from MRSA earlier this month had heightened the district's awareness of the issue.

Port Townsend Superintendent Tom Opstad said the district might have acted prematurely when two cases of MRSA were suspected in the district.

It canceled the game and two days of preschool without knowing much about the infection.

Recent conversations with the Jefferson County Public Health Department have changed the district's position.

In the future, Opstad said, the district would use hygiene education as its main weapon to prevent the spread of the infection.

"It was overkill," he said. "We've learned from our health department that routine cleaning is enough to take care of any staph infection."

[coffeeseven]

http://www.examiner.ie/irishexaminer/pages/story.aspx-qqqg%3Direland-qqqm%3Direland-qqqa%3Direland-qqqid%3D48105-qqqx%3D1.asp

MRSA faces defeat from wild flower

By Ailín Quinlan
A WILD flower growing in West Cork could hold the key to wiping out the deadly superbug MRSA, it has emerged.


Researchers at Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) have revealed the bright yellow flower known as inula helenium kills the lethal bug, which is resistant to some of the strongest antibiotics on the market.

Inula helenium is a tall plant which grows wild in west Cork and blossoms in late summer. It's one of two herbs involved in a €35,000 research project carried out at CIT. The other, pulsatilla vulgaris, also proved highly effective against the potentially fatal MRSA bug.

Extracts from both plants were tested against a group of 300 staphylococci including MRSA and inula helenium proved 100% effective against the superbug.

The trials were carried out by postgraduate student Susan O'Shea of CIT's biological sciences department as part of a two-year research project, under the supervision of Dr Brigid Lucey, a senior medical scientist with the microbiology department of Cork University Hospital and Dr Lesley Cotter, a lecturer in biomedical sciences at CIT.

[Crocuta]

As an ER nurse, I deal with MRSA infections every single day.  Everything from small abcesses to giant gaping wounds that require surgical intervention (and in a couple of cases, lifeflight to the regional trauma center.)

It is possible for the average person to get a MRSA infection, even a life threatening one, but the risk is lower than you might think.  Maintain good nutrition and health, bathe regularly and don't shoot heroin with dirty needles and you've covered the vast majority of the problem.  If anyone was going to get it, you'd think it would be the ER staff that have to deal with this stuff.

That said, if you do get an abcess, don't lance it with a razor blade and hope for the best.  Get it looked at. 

[coffeeseven]

As an ER nurse, I deal with MRSA infections every single day.  Everything from small abcesses to giant gaping wounds that require surgical intervention (and in a couple of cases, lifeflight to the regional trauma center.)

It is possible for the average person to get a MRSA infection, even a life threatening one, but the risk is lower than you might think.  Maintain good nutrition and health, bathe regularly and don't shoot heroin with dirty needles and you've covered the vast majority of the problem.  If anyone was going to get it, you'd think it would be the ER staff that have to deal with this stuff.

That said, if you do get an abcess, don't lance it with a razor blade and hope for the best.  Get it looked at. 

Absolutely right. Keeping clean and using common sense is the first thing a person should do, not the last.