Are Hospitals Safe?

Warning: Your local hospital may be the most dangerous place you could go if you are sick or recovering from surgery. The evidence to support this assertion comes from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that estimates more than 98,000 people die in the USA each year from bacterial infections acquired in hospitals.

Over and over, we read or hear about people staying in intensive care units of hospitals during or after surgeries who have successful treatments and then die from a MRSA infection. MRSA is a highly-resistant bacterium that has developed resistance to most of the best antibiotics available today. It resides on skin tissues and in our noses and ears and used to be harmless; no longer.

Victoria Nahum founded the Safe Care Campaign to begin to stop health-care- and community-acquired infections.

According to Safe Care Campaign's Web site, the organization seeks to "instigate a crucial culture change within the American health care environment with regard to comprehensive infection prevention and hand-hygiene compliance practices."

What happened to the 'sterile hospital environment'? Let's just say that there has never been a 'sterile hospital'. There never has been one and there never will be. It's an oxymoron. Sick people who carry pathogens in their bodies go to hospitals to be treated. By its very nature, hospitals are breeding grounds for the most dangerous of pathogenic bacteria.

The only way to have a sterile hospital is to place every patient who goes there to be irradiated before entering specially-cleaned sterile rooms or bubbles. It's simply too expensive to place patients into specially-sterilized rooms. Those with compromised immune systems who are trying to recover from illnesses or surgeries are at most risk in hospital recovery settings no matter where you go in the world. It's just that in the United States, we have over-used antibiotics to such an extent that common bacteria have evolved beyond the kill mechanisms of most antibiotic concoctions to kill them.

Hospitals often expose you to different germs than what you'd come into contact with in the outside world. Mutated bacteria that have developed resistance to antibiotics in hospitals are much more lethal than the regular forms of bacteria we encounter every day out in the world.

Thanks to concerned patient advocate groups, the grapevine is filling up with stories about the potential dangers that lie within hospitals. In addition to the Safe Care Campaign, there's also the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (CRID), which was begun by former lieutenant governor of New York, Betsy McCaughey. "You don't often come across such a big problem that you can prevent," McCaughey said.

There's a lot of work yet to be done to inform patients and hospital staff about how to prevent the tragedies that are reoccurring in hospitals and clinics around the country at an increasing rate. These groups have issued a list of things that patients can do to help protect themselves when visiting or staying at hospitals and clinics. The author has added a patented, well-researched and tested product that he believes would solve the current crisis easily.

Bring Your Child's Toys

Make sure your children take their own toys and books with them when visiting a pediatrician's office. The toys and books that are there are full of bacteria. According to McCaughey, the pediatrician's office is "one place you ought to keep your child sitting still in your lap."

Make Nurses and Doctors Wash Their Hands

It's wise to ask whoever is going to touch you to wash their hands thoroughly before they do so - in front of you, if necessary.

Be Sure You're Getting a Fresh Needle

To save money, an increasing number of hospitals have begun sterilizing and reusing syringe needles. It is commonly done in hospitals and clinics outside the United States and is now becoming more common within the US. Needles in the USA are supposed to be used once and only once. This is something however, that you can't always assume. Don't be afraid to ask the obvious question: has that needle been used? Ask that the doctor to unwrap a fresh syringe in front of you if you are concerned about it.

Prepare For Surgery

Always take something that will strengthen your immune system a week before going in for surgery. All types of unwanted pathogenic bacteria can get in open sores or cuts in your skin. You should request a skin or nasal swab test for the MRSA super bug - and if that test is positive, be sure that you treat yourself or ask to be treated with the only patented form of the New Silver Solution from Nutronix International. It easily kills MRSA Superbugs and a host of other pathogens. It is a totally safe high-tech disinfectant that can be taken internally with or without antibiotics before your procedure or sprayed on as a cleaner and disinfectant.

If you don't have the New Silver Solution and the hospital doesn't have any, then use their antibiotics and hope for the best but don't let a nurse shave you because any small nicks are become invitations for bacteria to enter the bloodstream; be sure your hair is only clipped back. Double-check that the doctor has ordered IV antibiotics on the day of the surgery. You would be surprised to learn how often this step is ignored.

The best defense is to get hold of a few 16 Oz bottles of the New Silver Solution and use it a week before your surgery, two times a day. Your insurance company will not pay for it because it's not a prescription that is on their list of covered items. Thankfully, it is much less expensive than what the hospital will charge your insurance company for antibiotics.

Stay Warm

Staying warm can help fight infection. If you're getting a hospital procedure in the winter, be sure to ride around in a warm car, dress in warm clothes before and after the surgery. Ask for plenty of blankets while you're in the hospital waiting for surgery. If necessary, bring some of your own. Don't take chances.

Your life is at risk at hospitals. Victoria Nahum learned the hard way that passive trust can kill you in a Hospital. "People need to start participating instead of just being spectators when it comes to their medical care," she said.

The Bottom Line

Steer clear of the hospital unless you cannot avoid it and always bring the New Silver Solution with you. Make sure it is kept by your bedside at all times and ask the nurse to inform the Doctor that you will be taking it in addition to antibiotics and other medications. The New Silver Solution works synergistically with antibiotics and medications making them more effective. Instruct the Doctor to instruct the nurse caring for you to spray some on the surgical wound while changing the dressings and give you several tablespoons to drink two or three times a day until you leave the hospital.

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