Protect Yourself Against Hospital Infections
A recent study shows that there's a rise in drug-resistant strains of Acinetobacter, a dangerous bacteria found widely in U.S. hospitals. Every year about two million people in the U.S. contract nosocomial infections, also known as "hospital infections" — infections contracted while getting medical care in a hospital or other health facility.
These virulent bugs often cause serious illness, or even death. To help protect the public, Core Content Media has an article 10 Ways to Protect Yourself from Hospital Infections.
Who Is Most at Risk for Acinetobacter?
Patients in hospital intensive care units and soldiers returning from Iraq are most at risk for getting. This hospital infection can lead to severe pneuomonia or bloodstream infections. In some cases, not even strong drugs can stop the bacteria.
For the study, which was published in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, researchers from the Extending the Cure project analyzed data from 300 American hospitals to assess the resistance to imipenem, a last-line of defence antibiotic. The results showed that between 1999 and 2006, there was a 300 percent increase in the amount of Acinetobacter cases that were resistant to imipenem.
According to Ramanan Laxminarayan, the principal investigator of Extending the Cure, the findings are particularly troubling because they signal that the bacteria is growing resistant to nearly every drug available.
To fight this surging problem of drug-resistant bacteria and hospital infection, the researchers advise more rigorous infection control across the country. They also recommend that drug companies provide incentives to develop novel antibiotics to destroy resistant strains of bacteria.
5 Ways to Protect Yourself from Hospital Infection from Core Content Media
1. Eat super-healthy meals before going into hospital, such as lots of green vegetables, fruits, and superfoods such as spirulina and probiotics.
2. Ask hospital staff to disinfect their hands before touching you. Keep an alcohol-based sanitizer in your room to make it easy for them.
3. Ask for hospital tubes to be removed shortly after surgery, or avoid having them when it's possible.
4. Stay warm to increase your immune cells' ability to fight hospital infection.
5. Leave hospital as soon as you can to go home.
You can find more tips and information on avoiding hospital infections at Core Content Media.
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C. D. Wilton is an author who is interested in health, natural health, family and children's issues, and great food.
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