Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Dirty Hospitals, Deadly Consequences

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HospitalGermsCameron Salisbury – It looked like a crime scene.

As I walked down the hospital corridor to visit an ailing friend, I was struck by the number of rooms with closed doors covered in yellow ‘caution – keep out’ tape. These were rooms housing a patient with a deadly and highly contagious hospital-acquired infection, like MRSA (Methicillin Resistant Staphlococcus Aureous) or C Diff (C Difficile). Both are caused by easily corrected hospital practices that endanger patients, including a lack of hand washing, contaminated instruments, and unsanitary procedures.

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Elizabeth Renter ~ 3 Natural Antibiotics Already In Your Kitchen

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NaturalSociety  May 23 2014

OreganoOilWhen you get sick, what do you do? If you’re like millions of Americans, you call the doctor at the first sign of a sniffle. You may run out to the aptly named drug store to get a quick-fix. But as a student of natural health, you are likely more interested in the potential healers you can find in your own kitchen, health food store, or garden. Fortunately, there are many, and several of them can actually work as natural antibiotics.

The benefits these items have over those approved by the conventional medical industry is that they can deliver the goods without a laundry list of side effects. Here are 3 natural antibiotics that may already be in your kitchen.

1. Oregano Oil

Also called oil of oregano, this oil can do everything from aid in weight loss to help digestion. But one of its most notable benefits is found in the ability to fight infection. Carvacrol, a phenol present in the oil, works to kill bacteria and illness causing infections. Continue reading →

L.J. Devon ~ WHO Report Labels Antibiotic Resistance ‘Global Threat,’ Calls For Urgent Action

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NaturalNews  May 7 2014

A new report issued by the World Health Organization denounces the current overuse of antibiotics and is saying that antibiotics now pose a “major global threat” to public health.

Calling for urgent action, WHO says that antibiotic resistance is occurring “in every region of the world.” Describing the current medical landscape as a “post-antibiotic era,” WHO is revealing that simple infections, once treatable, are now capable of taking lives en masse. After analyzing data from 114 countries, WHO has deemed that “devastating implications are imminent, unless “significant” and prompt action is taken. In utter hypocrisy, WHO is calling for the development of new antibiotics and new vaccines to overcome the resistant strains of bacteria.

“What we urgently need is a solid global plan of action which provides for the rational use of antibiotics,” the WHO report stated.

Current antibiotics unable to treat pneumonia, blood infections

The golden age of medical antibiotics is eroding. Overuse of antibiotics is now causing diseases such as pneumonia, blood infections and even diarrhea to return, stronger and more pervasive than ever, outsmarting key, crutch antibiotics relied on in the last generation. Continue reading →

Lily Dane ~ Study: Antibiotic-Resistant MRSA Superbug Found In US Homes

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Ready Nutrition  April 24 2014

MRSAAn antibiotic-resistant superbug that has long been a problem in hospitals and other health care settings has found a new reservoir: U.S. homes.

MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, is a bacteria that is responsible for many hard-to-treat infections in different parts of the body. Its resistance to common antibiotics like penicillin and amoxicillin has earned MRSA a place in the “superbug” category.

In hospitals and other medical facilities, MRSA can cause life-threatening infections in the bloodstream, urinary tract, lungs, and surgical sites.

Outside of medical settings, MRSA usually manifests itself in the form of skin infections spread by physical contact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):

Anyone can get MRSA through direct contact with an infected wound or by sharing personal items, such as towels or razors, that have touched infected skin. MRSA infection risk can be increased when a person is in certain activities or places that involve crowding, skin-to-skin contact, and shared equipment or supplies. This might include athletes, daycare and school students, military personnel in barracks, and people who recently received inpatient medical care.

The CDC estimates that approximately 2% of people (2 out of every 100) carries MRSA, but normally they don’t show any sign of infection.

Now, a new study shows that homes can be “major reservoirs” for the bacteria:

“What our findings show is it’s also endemic in households,” said lead researcher Dr. Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, of Columbia University Medical Center in New York City.

HealthDay reported on the findings:

The new results, published April 21 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, are based on 161 New York City residents who contracted MRSA infections between 2009 and 2011.

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Manuka: Antibacterial, Antifungal, Kills Deadly MRSA Bacteria

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Natural Society May 27 2013

Gut flora
Manuka trees

In 1769, James Cook called the tea tree a medicinal wonder with an ‘agreeable bitter taste’, but New Zealanders call their Manuka trees life savers. Manuka oil is derived from the Manuka tree that grows primarily in New Zealand. Its active ingredients, Triketones and Sesquiterpenes, are anti-fungal, anti-viral, anti-septic and anti-bacterial. The oil of the Manuka tree is even successfully fighting MRSA bacteria, also known as Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or staph.

A skin disease which can cause mild to a fatal infection, skin rashes, boils, redness, and itching, MRSA isn’t always deadly, but it can be. Thankfully, recent scientific studies show that manuka oil can not only prevent MRSA, but treat it as well. In fact, the oil has been shown to be more effective than many pharmaceutical antibiotics, prescribed by doctors to treat MRSA. The oil can also alleviate symptoms from everything from anxiety to eczema.

In addition to being a potent answer to drug resistant bacteria like MRSA, another study published in the journal Microbiology found that honey – particularly that derived from bees foraging on manuka flowers – halted one type of streptococcus pyogenes from inhibiting the healing of wounds.

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