Another reason to avoid hospitals

Hmm. I think most people only go to hospitals when necessary or visting someone. I would visit if someone I knew was in a hospital. You can catch anything anywhere so why be overly concerned?
 
I have worked in the medical field for almost 40 years of my life and not all directly in a hospital setting, but some of which was doing in patient Physical Therapy. I agree there are increased risked for infections while in a hospital, but to avoid a hospital when in need as a patient is something that I would not suggest. Like Aneeda stated above you can catch many infections anywhere such as shopping in a Supermarket or a Clothing Store. Plus, the medical facilities now are going above and beyond to provide all sorts of precautionary measures that assist in helping prevent these inventions from happening. Unfortunately, as in all cases nothing is 100% preventable from happening. The thing is we cannot go on living in a bubble to try and hide from these things. Doctors and Researchers continue each day to work on better ways and treatments on preventing and curing theses things.
 

The article stated that most of the C. Auris cases are in hospitals and nursing homes. I would go to a hospital if I need surgery, but in my post I said "if I possibly can" I would not go. As to visiting, I doubt that people who are sick and in pain in a hospital REALLY enjoy long and many visits and having to be ''socially gracious'' to their visitors in spite of feeling sick and in pain. I suggest you both also read the article and especially the comments in the article, not just my brief post.
 
PVC said:
The article stated that most of the C. Auris cases are in hospitals and nursing homes. I would go to a hospital if I need surgery, but in my post I said "if I possibly can" I would not go. As to visiting, I doubt that people who are sick and in pain in a hospital REALLY enjoy long and many visits and having to be ''socially gracious'' to their visitors in spite of feeling sick and in pain. I suggest you both also read the article and especially the comments in the article, not just my brief post.
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I totally understand what you are saying and I agree if at all possible I wouldn't go either. I don't want to go unless I absolutely necessarily need to go to the hospital. Most patients that are in long term in the hospital you must understand are in pretty bad condition. Most lengths of stay at the hospitals now are very short because insurances do not pay for it. So the patients that you would be visiting on a longer basis would be in pretty serious condition if they are in patient for sometime and then they would most likely be transferred to hospice from that situation after a period of time anyway.

Nursing Homes are another situation entirely and that really is at the discretion of the family member of how they want to spend the time with the family member that is in the Nursing Home. I cannot tell anyone how or how not to spend time with family members.

Like I stated I worked in the medical field for a few months shy of 40 years some of which was in a hospital setting and articles and finding are great and everything, but what it really comes down to is the judgement calls of the family members, the patients and how they deal with there hygiene while in the hospital, and the workers and how they do the same and how they keep things clean. Like I stated the improvements in all hospitals at least within the United States in this area have helped in this area, but there is always room for more improving.
 
PVC said:
I stay away from hospitals if I possibly can, not only as a patient but also as a visitor. Not only do they harbor MRSA but now they have another antibiotic resistant deadly fungus infection from the same family as MRSA. (Emphasis by tree guy). Most of the deadly fungus infections are in hospitals in NY, NJ, and Chicago.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/apos-serious-global-health-threat-001950253.html
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Sorry, MRSA is bacterial, not fungal. Big difference, when it comes to morphology and treatment.

The article you referenced is a typical alarmist news piece. The pathogen has been known about for, around, twenty years. As long as you can avoid sub-standard hospitals, and are reasonably good about keeping yourself and your home area clean, you should never have to worry about this fungus.
 
I agree, and would only go to hospitals if I needed medical care or was visiting a close relative or friend. Last time I was in a hospital a lot was in the late '90s, visiting my father in law, the sanitary conditions of his room and bathroom (he never used it, he was confined to the bed) left a lot to be desired, was even some blood around and I wouldn't have use it myself. Hospitals, nursing homes, day care centers are all places that will expose you more to a sickness than a trip to the market.
 
I worked in a local hospital for 27 yrs as a pharm tech,I never was exposed to any virus/infection or dealt directly with any patient
I had my partial right knee surgery there when I was an employee,no problems or when I would visit friends who were patients
All the nursing units and other floors have hand sanitation dispensers mounted on the walls. Sue
 
Many would think that Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Day Care Centers would expose more germs and infections than your daily grocery store. Take this into consideration though. In each patients room there are hand sanitation devises available as well at each Nursing station and throughout the halls as well. Rooms and hallways are cleaned daily by the cleaning crews. In a grocery store there is a soap dispenser in the bathroom and if you are lucky maybe a hand sanitation dispenser in the store. Now also take into consideration how many people touch and handle the products you end up purchasing at the grocery store. many of which may have a cut or sore on there hand or have some sort of infection going on in there body while they are shopping. So there is a good chance of catching an infection while shopping at your local grocery store, but that certainly does not stop us from getting the food we need as it also should not stop us from visiting a loved one while in the Hospital or Nursing Home especially with the precaution they have in place today.
 
And don't forget take out food and eating out, lol. Vegetables grow in fields amoung the rats, mice, dogs, cats, and other assorted critters who pee and poop among and on the veggies. Not to mention bird dropping, ugh. It's just not possible to avoid germs. Just wash your hands, food, and hope for the best.
 
I've worked in hospital for most of my adult life, and I'd like to discourage visiting folks in the hospital. First, you are all crawling with every type of pathogen (Bad bug) known to man. So, we don't need you infecting compromised patients with your carry in. Also, it is not like in the old days, when people were hospitalized for much longer time and with much less severe conditions. So, there was the custom of visiting patients to cheer them up, during very long, long recuperative stays . Today, patient stays are as short as possible, and patients are much sicker. For God's sake, don't visit if you 're sick. Use social media. Also, if a beloved one is hospitalized, maybe a small contingency of family visit for a short time, and not have 4 generations of family descend for hours at a time. That's too much for some weaken patients. There is a reason people are hospitalized- they're sick. And, it's not party time. Please respect that not all of the patients are getting better.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I've worked in hospital for most of my adult life, and I'd like to discourage visiting folks in the hospital. First, you are all crawling with every type of pathogen (Bad bug) known to man. So, we don't need you infecting compromised patients with your carry in. Also, it is not like in the old days, when people were hospitalized for much longer time and with much less severe conditions. So, there was the custom of visiting patients to cheer them up, during very long, long recuperative stays . Today, patient stays are as short as possible, and patients are much sicker. For God's sake, don't visit if you 're sick. Use social media. Also, if a beloved one is hospitalized, maybe a small contingency of family visit for a short time, and not have 4 generations of family descend for hours at a time. That's too much for some weaken patients. There is a reason people are hospitalized- they're sick. And, it's not party time. Please respect that not all of the patients are getting better.
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I agree with this and if you do need to visit there is always the option to wear a mask that the Hospital or Nursing Home Staff will always provide you with. There is definitely no need for a party visit as the patient needs rest.
 
We will be going to the hospital tomorrow for some minor hand surgery for the wife. I fully intend to stay well out of the way, and keep a close watch for anyone hacking and coughing, etc. We carry some of these hand sanitizer packets with us, and use them if we have to touch anything....rest room door handles, etc. The hospital staff does an excellent job of keeping the place clean, but unfortunately there are people coming and going who seem to have little or no regard for basic hygiene.
 
The last time I had surgery was around 1972 or so. Back then they made you stay 1-2 weeks but there were no 'superbugs' (that I know of) Here's a couple of poster comments I found in the article =

Bobby = Housekeeping staff are among the lowest paid and least respected in hospital settings. I had a lengthy stay following surgery to remove lung infected with cancer. My room had huge windows that let the sun stream in. Whenever the nurses or docs pulled the curtain around my bed you could see a cloud of dust from the materials and especially the top rails.
When housekeeping would visit the wet mop was not rinsed out. More like a damp mop passed across the floor to clean the obvious. Sink wiped out using a spray bottle and towel. Toilet disinfected. When i asked the women why she skipped around the room in a thick accent she told me the room was clean. Yes it looked clean but i know better. Mention it to nurses and they sort of pass it off. No one wants to question them for fear of having no cleaning staff.

Gwyn = Time to clean up the hospitals. when I worked back in the seventies, hospitals had a lot of strict clean rules. Now a days people can trample anywhere they want. In and out of labor rooms, whole families with balloons, anytime during the day to visit patients, brining food in and not confining it to the cafeteria. Its time to clean up again and keep hospitals clean.

B.A. Smith = •Signs and symptoms of C. auris include◦fever and chills while on antimicrobial medication,
◦sepsis,
◦isolation of Candida-like yeast from the patient's blood, and
◦little or no patient response or improvement with conventional antifungal therapy.

•Coma, organ failure (as the infection spreads to multiple organs), and death may occur if appropriate treatment is delayed.
•People at risk are usually in health-care settings and have undergone recent surgery, have a central venous catheter, have diabetes, and/or have undergone broad-spectrum antibiotic and/or antifungal therapy. These fungal infections have been found in all age groups.
The fungus, Candida auris, or C. auris, has been added to the federal list of germs considered urgent threats. In the U.S., the majority of the 587 reported cases were in New York, New Jersey and Illinois. Other cases have also been reported in California, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Texas and Virginia.
 

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