| Warning: Your local hospital may be the most | | | | pediatrician's office is "one place you ought to |
| dangerous place you could go if you are sick or | | | | keep your child sitting still in your lap." |
| recovering from surgery. The evidence to | | | | Make Nurses and Doctors Wash Their Hands |
| support this assertion comes from the Center for | | | | It's wise to ask whoever is going to touch you to |
| Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that | | | | wash their hands thoroughly before they do so - |
| estimates more than 98,000 people die in the | | | | in front of you, if necessary. |
| USA each year from bacterial infections acquired | | | | Be Sure You're Getting a Fresh Needle |
| in hospitals. | | | | To save money, an increasing number of hospitals |
| Over and over, we read or hear about people | | | | have begun sterilizing and reusing syringe needles. |
| staying in intensive care units of hospitals during | | | | It is commonly done in hospitals and clinics outside |
| or after surgeries who have successful | | | | the United States and is now becoming more |
| treatments and then die from a MRSA infection. | | | | common within the US. Needles in the USA are |
| MRSA is a highly-resistant bacterium that has | | | | supposed to be used once and only once. This is |
| developed resistance to most of the best | | | | something however, that you can't always |
| antibiotics available today. It resides on skin tissues | | | | assume. Don't be afraid to ask the obvious |
| and in our noses and ears and used to be | | | | question: has that needle been used? Ask that the |
| harmless; no longer. | | | | doctor to unwrap a fresh syringe in front of you |
| Victoria Nahum founded the Safe Care Campaign | | | | if you are concerned about it. |
| to begin to stop health-care- and | | | | Prepare For Surgery |
| community-acquired infections. | | | | Always take something that will strengthen your |
| According to Safe Care Campaign's Web site, the | | | | immune system a week before going in for |
| organization seeks to "instigate a crucial culture | | | | surgery. All types of unwanted pathogenic |
| change within the American health care | | | | bacteria can get in open sores or cuts in your |
| environment with regard to comprehensive | | | | skin. You should request a skin or nasal swab test |
| infection prevention and hand-hygiene compliance | | | | for the MRSA super bug - and if that test is |
| practices." | | | | positive, be sure that you treat yourself or ask to |
| What happened to the 'sterile hospital | | | | be treated with the only patented form of the |
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| people who carry pathogens in their bodies go to | | | | disinfectant that can be taken internally with or |
| hospitals to be treated. By its very nature, | | | | without antibiotics before your procedure or |
| hospitals are breeding grounds for the most | | | | sprayed on as a cleaner and disinfectant. |
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| every patient who goes there to be irradiated | | | | and hope for the best but don't let a nurse shave |
| before entering specially-cleaned sterile rooms or | | | | you because any small nicks are become |
| bubbles. It's simply too expensive to place patients | | | | invitations for bacteria to enter the bloodstream; |
| into specially-sterilized rooms. Those with | | | | be sure your hair is only clipped back. |
| compromised immune systems who are trying to | | | | Double-check that the doctor has ordered IV |
| recover from illnesses or surgeries are at most | | | | antibiotics on the day of the surgery. You would |
| risk in hospital recovery settings no matter where | | | | be surprised to learn how often this step is |
| you go in the world. It's just that in the United | | | | ignored. |
| States, we have over-used antibiotics to such an | | | | The best defense is to get hold of a few 16 Oz |
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| beyond the kill mechanisms of most antibiotic | | | | week before your surgery, two times a day. |
| concoctions to kill them. | | | | Your insurance company will not pay for it |
| Hospitals often expose you to different germs | | | | because it's not a prescription that is on their list |
| than what you'd come into contact with in the | | | | of covered items. Thankfully, it is much less |
| outside world. Mutated bacteria that have | | | | expensive than what the hospital will charge your |
| developed resistance to antibiotics in hospitals are | | | | insurance company for antibiotics. |
| much more lethal than the regular forms of | | | | Stay Warm |
| bacteria we encounter every day out in the | | | | Staying warm can help fight infection. If you're |
| world. | | | | getting a hospital procedure in the winter, be sure |
| Thanks to concerned patient advocate groups, | | | | to ride around in a warm car, dress in warm |
| the grapevine is filling up with stories about the | | | | clothes before and after the surgery. Ask for |
| potential dangers that lie within hospitals. In | | | | plenty of blankets while you're in the hospital |
| addition to the Safe Care Campaign, there's also | | | | waiting for surgery. If necessary, bring some of |
| the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths | | | | your own. Don't take chances. |
| (CRID), which was begun by former lieutenant | | | | Your life is at risk at hospitals. Victoria Nahum |
| governor of New York, Betsy McCaughey. "You | | | | learned the hard way that passive trust can kill |
| don't often come across such a big problem that | | | | you in a Hospital. "People need to start |
| you can prevent," McCaughey said. | | | | participating instead of just being spectators when |
| There's a lot of work yet to be done to inform | | | | it comes to their medical care," she said. |
| patients and hospital staff about how to prevent | | | | The Bottom Line |
| the tragedies that are reoccurring in hospitals and | | | | Steer clear of the hospital unless you cannot |
| clinics around the country at an increasing rate. | | | | avoid it and always bring the New Silver Solution |
| These groups have issued a list of things that | | | | with you. Make sure it is kept by your bedside at |
| patients can do to help protect themselves when | | | | all times and ask the nurse to inform the Doctor |
| visiting or staying at hospitals and clinics. The | | | | that you will be taking it in addition to antibiotics |
| author has added a patented, well-researched and | | | | and other medications. The New Silver Solution |
| tested product that he believes would solve the | | | | works synergistically with antibiotics and |
| current crisis easily. | | | | medications making them more effective. Instruct |
| Bring Your Child's Toys | | | | the Doctor to instruct the nurse caring for you to |
| Make sure your children take their own toys and | | | | spray some on the surgical wound while changing |
| books with them when visiting a pediatrician's | | | | the dressings and give you several tablespoons to |
| office. The toys and books that are there are full | | | | drink two or three times a day until you leave the |
| of bacteria. According to McCaughey, the | | | | hospital. |