MRSA Notes

Leslie Ash, an actress in the UK well known as an advocate for cleaner hospitals, reportedly has initiated a lawsuit against the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London where she acquired MRSA during hospitalization in 2004. No more info available at this point, but I will update when I hear more.
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This is all over the tubes today - Dermacyn, the miracle water that heals MRSA. You’re not supposed to drink it, but apply it to your wounds. Dermacyn is manufactured by Oculus, and is a supercharged salt water solution that has been found to explode MRSA cells. This features/benefits info is from [...]

Sadly, I have decided to pull MRSA Notes out of b5media, as I am just a little too busy to be able to keep up my end of my committment with b5media, and since I love them so much, I don’t want to take from them without giving back at least as much. [...]

This is a topic that we could probably talk about all day long - from about 100 different angles - but it is very interesting news.
Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have discovered that mice with a herpes virus infection seem to have better resistance to bacterial infections.  The long and short of it is [...]

Here is a feel good story for you - Grant Cawte, who has survived more unsurvivable illnesses than anyone I can think of - is representing Great Britain in the World Transplant Games this summer in Bangkok.  Grant has come back from leukemia, a brain tumor, a rejected transplant AND MRSA.  All of that [...]

Do you know about the Robin Hood Fund?  This is a really nifty charity site appealing both to the fun and to the serious.  Make a wish, either naughty or nice, and the users vote on who’s wish to grant.  That is the ultra short version, read more about it here.
 
Anyway, there is a [...]

This is another story of an MRSA battle sent in by a reader.  She acquired MRSA from laparoscopic surgery, which infected her bloodstream.  She is lucky and is recovering.  Here is her story:
On Oct 13th of 2004 I went home after having a minor surgery (Laparoscopy). At home during the evening I had tremendous first, nausea, [...]

Last year this time, you may remember reading Dream Mom’s dramatic story of her son’s battle with MRSA pnemonia.  I know I do.  She is an unbelievably strong woman, and a beautiful writer.  Anyway, she is reposting her story from last year, so if you haven’t read it, start reading it now.  And keep on [...]

This is a story of a woman who acquired MRSA in her C-section wound.  Remember these tips when you go into the hospital for any invasive procedure.
I had a baby March 2, 2007. I was is surgery for 3 hours due to excessive bleeding. On March 5th I was released, but the night before that [...]

 Four year old Caleb Noblitt survived an MRSA infection in his pelvis and spine, and is part of a video on channel 4 in Denver - looking just as vibrant as a little child should.  Bless his heart, I can only imagine what his family has gone through! 
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There is legislation in Illinois that we should keep an eye on - they are trying to pass a bill in the legislature that is accused of being too narrow in focus and not based on scientific evidence (House Bill 378 and Senate Bill 233). Michael O. Vernon, the President of Chicago’s APIC (Association [...]

I mentioned the GeneXpert system a couple of weeks ago, when it was approved by the FDA, and now I am happy to say that the the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, TX has announced that they are the first hospital in TX and in the VA to install it.
“A key factor [...]

Hmm. It is interesting to me how Mother Nature holds the secrets to taking care of us. Sometimes all of the artifical compounds in the world don’t hold a candle to something already here on this earth.
This isn’t the answer to MRSA yet - it remains to be seen - but researchers [...]

This is a hard story to refute - three young men all got tattoos together at Lil Smitty’s, a Blue Island, Illinois tattoo parlor, and all three broke out with MRSA staph infections all over their brand new art. Illinois is soon going to be implimenting a new law for tattooing shops that will [...]

Jarvis Moss, the first round draft pick of the Denver Broncos, suffered a staph infection two years ago that brings back memories of our ordeal, and might for you too:

If I showed you film of what he was like the first spring — he was 215 pounds,” said Meyer, who became Florida’s coach two years [...]