Antibacterial Wipes Help Spread MRSA
From BBC Health News:
Hospital wipes ‘spreading MRSA’
Some types of anti-bacterial wipes used by hospital staff to clean surfaces could be helping to spread bacteria, researchers say.
The Welsh School of Pharmacy found that MRSA survived on the wipe, and then contaminated everything it touched.
The team said staff should throw away wipes after cleaning just one surface.
You can read the entire article HERE.
In the last year of his life, my father acquired the MRSA infection in a hospital. Through the following months, and several courses of Vancomycin, they never knocked the MRSA out of his system, and I am convinced it was the major contributing cause to his death.
MRSA, and other antibacterial resistant infections, are increasing in hospitals, prisons, schools, health clubs – anywhere people come into contact with one another. One of the best things we can all do to avoid infection and spreading infection? Frequent hand washing. It isn’t infallible, but it helps.
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Yeah I agree.. I was in the restroom at work wearing my lenses, and a co-worker got out of the toilet and barely washed her hands with water only… I swear she lightly let the water touch her hands and thats it! I was disgusted… you should see me how I open the doors and run water… I am very careful to the point where some people make fun of me and think I am paranoid LOL
who would use methociline
(type of peniciline) as a wipe??
Ansam, I am with you. I don’t care what other people think, I wash my hands frequently!
ku – I think hospitals are trying anything they can to wipe this menace out. It spreads so quickly, and is so hard to destroy.
It would be common sense to throw away the wipes after being done with the surface/area they are cleaning. It doesn’t make sense to re-use them.
N. – the problem isnt that they are re-using them…
it`s because the bacteria developed resistance to the antibiotic (wipes) because they are frequently using them
It’s a reasonable claim. But you are mixing two very different forms of mrsa into one alarming article; Community Acquired MRSA and Hospital Acquired MRSA.
Oh Scott, I am sorry. I didn’t know they were different forms. Thank you for coming and filling us in.