Shouldn't the public be more warned?

Question

about the esculating effects of out of control infection in all hospitals. MRSA is so out of control that now theres VRSA.

Answer 1

I think we should be warned ... but there is always the group of people who will be scared to go to a hospital for treatment when they have a better chance to get well there than get sick ... it can cause a public scare if they go too far in telling people about it.  The best thing you can do is try to keep your immune system healthy, exercise regularly, and don't get sick.  If you end up at a hospital, watch carefully how the doctors and others treat you ... make sure they wash well and wear gloves ... and don't touch anything else in your exam room before they touch you ... common sense stuff.  If you see them do something that could be unsanitary ask them to wash and glove up again before they touch you.  That is not an unreasonable request!

Answer 2

so what should they do?  common sense tells me that if some disease exists, there's proooooobibly a good chance I'll find it at the hospital....sorta like going to the garage to get your car fixed and being"surprised" to find out there's so much grease!...for people who's immune systems are compromised(thru chemo etc.)...we sorta now have this built in alarm to stay away from such places..Im sure countrywide hospitals let the media know when major outbreaks exist..so what more can we do as far as warning is concerned? rule: if you're sick go the hospital...if you're not..stay away from hospitals! ..................................(the last thing I wanted was to get bitten by a tiger....so...I went to the zoo and stuck my hand in the tiger cage..what did I do wrong???)

Answer 3

You maybe right but do you think the public will care that infections are released from the hospitals??

Usually they would say "who cares anyway since the world is already polluted with so many diseases.

Even if everyone were aware the spread of diseases cannot be stopped but prevention is the only way so it is better to stay healthy rather than informing the public useless information that infections come out of the hospitals

hope this helps^_^

Answer 4

The public has been warned of it. We are all told repeatedly to " Wash your hands!" Not many people wash their hands, and all of us pay for it.  Hospitals are not the only place MRSA is found. There is community acquired MRSA now, due to the fact people don't wash their hands and demand antibiotics for illnesses that do not warrant medication( colds, cough) and people who do not take their antibiotic as prescribed( stop when they feel better, or forget doses).

  Hospitals are dirty places, sick people go there! They are MRSA and VRSA, it would be common sense that those bacteria would be there!

Answer 5

Yes, they should be.  I am a stem cell transplant (bone marrow transplant) with a lowered immune system.  I was infected by mrsa twice while in the hospital, and am now colonized, as are most nurses and docs.  About 80% of the two hospitals I am treated at are infected and have been for over a year.

The medical staff does little to prevent its spread, and the things they do do, are relativly ineffective.

But the basic hard core reason they dont alert the public more, and take more precautions is mass public hysteria.  Most of the public doesnt understand what mrsa is, why it is, or what to do about it.  The media would have a field day if they got a hold of a story of the hospitals taking real precautions.  As it is now, the public doesnt think its a threat, and isnt acting in mass public hysteria.

But mrsa isnt the only issue.  There are a ton of nomisocial infections that just get passed around the patients with little being done, and getting out into the public.

Answer 6

They are.  Daily. Read any newspaper.

Answer 7

It's not a secret.

And yet, people still want antibiotics for viral infections, like cold and bronchitis.  Sigh.

Answer 8

CDC covers it pretty well.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/ar_mrsa_d...

http://www.cdc.gov/

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dhqp/ar_visavr...

That term is VISA/VRSA

Yes , hospitals could put up the warnings, and some may have to. As long as we use Private Health Care systems, they can pretty much do anything they wish that shows a profit to the stockholders, that is Capitalism 101.

I am pro Capitalism, then again, I am Pro-Health Care for every taxpayer on an equal basis.

Answer 9

Yes you are right. People don't know about it. I wouldn't have known but my friend is a nurse and she also said that she could be a carrier because she works in a hospital.

I heard that a persons body can turn to jelly in a couple of days of being infected.

A person with low immune system are more suseptible to it. right?