Synergy
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Hello everyone -- The thread about holistic doctors gave me the idea to write about mrsa. Mrsa is Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. It is highly contagious, and is common in hospitals.
It's common in hospitals when a person's immune system is weakened, such is with surgery or chemo, for instance. It's a "super bug" staph bacteria that is resistant to the most commonly used antibiotics.
It is a horrible, horrible disease than can be fatal and is extremely difficult to treat/cure/control. There's tons of information about it online with a google search. AND there's a lot of disagreement among medical professionals about how to prevent and treat it, and also how people can protect THEMSELVES from catching it from someone they know who has this infection.
Here's the story I've been dealing with, with a friend who has mrsa. I consider that she is an extremist "holistic" "alternative healthcare" person. She is/was a member of my band, which practices at either my home or the home of one or another band member's home. A chiropractor online said that the table and hand grips must be disinfected after EVERY patient.
So I told her and the rest of the band that I would not practice with her at my or anyone else's home. She was living in the home of another woman, who evicted her because of the mrsa. Then she told me via email that she had quit seeing her M.D. about it because, "He's giving me antibiotics that he KNOWS WON'T WORK." Not true! That's how they treat mrsa -- they need to be hospitalized the treated with one antibiotic after another to see which one works.
If the infection comes back, as it often does, other antibiotics have to be tried. She read somewhere that a special kind of honey would help... I don't know whether this honey is supposed to heal it, cure it for good, or clear up the huge or smaller sores on the skin.
The banjo player knows someone that said it took them MONTHS for it to clear up. She she put honey on her legs for THREE DAYS, then called me and said "I'm cured. I'm coming to practice on Monday." I said, No, that the band had to think about the situation before we could make a decision. The banjo player had been pretty luke warm about what to do till he talked to some people who had had it.
Then he became even more concerned that I am. Meanwhile the woman with the mrsa (1) continues to be a caregiver for individuals who have Alzheimers; (2) I found an apartment for her, but she said she wouldn't take it because she wants to live in a home with other people! (3) she proceeded to move into a house with a some people who already live there.
She told us the first time she informed us that she had mrsa “once you get it, you always have it.” In other words, you’re a carrier. She also I did find out that a lot of people who don’t have the sores/symptoms carry mrsa in their nose, and that is not a problem for them or anyone else. But later, with the honey thing, she said she was “cured.” In short, I absolutely do not trust this woman anymore.
Certainly not about her health issues, and protecting myself from catching mrsa from her. We had been good friends for about a year, but now as far as I’m concerned, she is “showing her true colors” as an unreliable person who doesn’t respect or care about other people’s health if she needs to protect them from her contagion.
It's common in hospitals when a person's immune system is weakened, such is with surgery or chemo, for instance. It's a "super bug" staph bacteria that is resistant to the most commonly used antibiotics.
It is a horrible, horrible disease than can be fatal and is extremely difficult to treat/cure/control. There's tons of information about it online with a google search. AND there's a lot of disagreement among medical professionals about how to prevent and treat it, and also how people can protect THEMSELVES from catching it from someone they know who has this infection.
Here's the story I've been dealing with, with a friend who has mrsa. I consider that she is an extremist "holistic" "alternative healthcare" person. She is/was a member of my band, which practices at either my home or the home of one or another band member's home. A chiropractor online said that the table and hand grips must be disinfected after EVERY patient.
So I told her and the rest of the band that I would not practice with her at my or anyone else's home. She was living in the home of another woman, who evicted her because of the mrsa. Then she told me via email that she had quit seeing her M.D. about it because, "He's giving me antibiotics that he KNOWS WON'T WORK." Not true! That's how they treat mrsa -- they need to be hospitalized the treated with one antibiotic after another to see which one works.
If the infection comes back, as it often does, other antibiotics have to be tried. She read somewhere that a special kind of honey would help... I don't know whether this honey is supposed to heal it, cure it for good, or clear up the huge or smaller sores on the skin.
The banjo player knows someone that said it took them MONTHS for it to clear up. She she put honey on her legs for THREE DAYS, then called me and said "I'm cured. I'm coming to practice on Monday." I said, No, that the band had to think about the situation before we could make a decision. The banjo player had been pretty luke warm about what to do till he talked to some people who had had it.
Then he became even more concerned that I am. Meanwhile the woman with the mrsa (1) continues to be a caregiver for individuals who have Alzheimers; (2) I found an apartment for her, but she said she wouldn't take it because she wants to live in a home with other people! (3) she proceeded to move into a house with a some people who already live there.
She told us the first time she informed us that she had mrsa “once you get it, you always have it.” In other words, you’re a carrier. She also I did find out that a lot of people who don’t have the sores/symptoms carry mrsa in their nose, and that is not a problem for them or anyone else. But later, with the honey thing, she said she was “cured.” In short, I absolutely do not trust this woman anymore.
Certainly not about her health issues, and protecting myself from catching mrsa from her. We had been good friends for about a year, but now as far as I’m concerned, she is “showing her true colors” as an unreliable person who doesn’t respect or care about other people’s health if she needs to protect them from her contagion.
