Staph bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus) are commonly carried on the skin or in the nose of healthy people. In fact, it is one of the most common causes of skin infections in the United States and, as minor skin infections, can be treated without antibiotics.
More serious infections have been treated with antibiotics. However, a type of staph has developed that is resistant to a class of antibiotics called beta-lactams, which includes methicillin as well as penicillin, amoxicillin and oxacillin. This type of staph is referred to as methicillin-resisant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA.
Initially this type of staph infection occurred among persons in hospitals and other healthcare facilities who had weakened immune systems. Healthcare-associated MRSA infections, including pneumonia, surgical wound infections, bloodstream infections or other invasive infections, are indeed serious and potentially fatal. According to Dr. Elizabeth A. Bancroft, an epidemiologist at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, more people died in 2005 from MRSA infections in the United States than died from AIDS.
These potentially deadly superbugs are now invading homes, schools, health and athletic clubs and other community sites. Dr. Robert Daum, a pediatrician at the University of Chicago’s Children’s Hospital has tagged this more virulent MRSA infection “community MRSA”, or CA-MRSA.
Recently a 17-year-old Virginia high school senior died from CA-MRSA when it spread to his kidneys, liver, lungs and muscles around his heard. Virginia officials shut down 21 schools to keep CA-MRSA from spreading to epidemic proportions. Michigan has also closed numerous schools for the purpose of disinfecting their environment due to the incidence of CA-MRSA. Daily more incidents are being reported nationwide.
In a recent report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (October 17), researchers estimated that there were 94,360 cases of invasive MRSA resulting in 18,650 deaths in the United States in 2005. This number does not include the untold thousands of skin infections caused by CA-MRSA in the community setting.
How does one prevent MRSA or CA-MRSA infections?
The first line of defense is always a good immune system. Proper nutrition and an excellent nutritional supplement like GBG Liquid Vitamins is essential.
Secondly, exercise good hygiene by washing your hands thoroughly. Keep a hand sanitizer such as The New Silver Solution, handy. Professor Ron Leavitt, Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Brigham Young University, conducted a study in which he found that The New Silver Solution was able to kill each of the seven strains of pathogenic bacteria tested, including S. aureus.
A third suggestion is to disinfect cuts and scrapes with The New Silver Solution and keep covered with a bandage until healed.
Additionally, do not share personal items such as towels or razors and avoid contact with other people’s wounds or bandages.
Since MRSA and CA-MRSA are bacterial infections and bacteria can mutate to become resistant to antibiotics, doctors fear that the increasing invulnerability of superbug bacteria will soon result in the human population becoming defenseless against them.
The benefit of using The New Silver Solution against these bacteria is that it is not affected by any of the strategies that the bacteria use to protect themselves from antibiotics. Thus, the silver can kill all of the bacteria and immune strains will not develop.
Dr. Anne
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