MRSA Notes

There is a wonderful article in LHJ this month on MRSA, featuring the story of CJ Jackson, son of my friend Francine Jackson. You can read the entire article at the RID web site - it is full of basic information that everyone needs to know about MRSA and CJ’s wonderful story that will [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Have any of you tried this product yet? The Invisible Armor is a triclosan based product designed for households and all sorts of other businesses where you would come in contact with other folks as well as germs from other sources. The Invisible Armor is a skin protectant, with the primary benefit of [...]

A speedy minute of health from the CDC this week covers Staphylococcus aureus quick and dirty in a podcast on the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, and can be accessed here. Here you can find the PDF transcript, but one short minute of a podcast doesn’t give you much info - here it is:

Antibiotic [...]

This is a video from Dr. Mercola about probiotics - which are the good bacteria that lives in your system. I have written more information about probiotics and how they relate to your MRSA, and you can read more about Dr. Mercola’s probiotics as well. He is trying to sell you his probiotics [...]

I remember *way back when* I was a teenager - we did all sorts of completely stupid things like carving our skin up with peace signs or band logos with knives. Yah, dumb stuff. This is the tale of a 14 yr old in Utah, playing the “ABC game,” where the kids see [...]

I always love it when MRSA hits the mainstream media, and it has done just that. Yesterday, USA Today’s Anita Manning presents an article about “search and destroy” programs being implemented in some of our nation’s hospitals in order to combat HA-MRSA. These hospitals have seen successful results in a few other hospitals, [...]

Congratulations to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center for receiving the Qualis Health Award of Excellence for leading the way in hospital infection prevention. They have made a hospital wide effort to reduce MRSA in their facility by extremely good handwashing by the staff, screening patients and using isolation techniques to control MRSA, and it [...]

This program has been in place in the adult wards, but now children admitted to the pediatric wards at John’s Hopkins will be screened for MRSA and VRE (Vancomycin-resistant Enterococci). They conducted a study that reinforced the idea:

In a study of 330 patients that lasted four months, weekly testing found 54 percent of patients [...]