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Forgive me but one thing would help.... Go back to using regular

freaking soap instead of that anti-bacterial crappola that they make in

chemical plants.

 

Then... Have children play outside longer and get dirtier... Then..

Stop prescribing antibiotics for everything in the world at the

slightest drop of mucous down your throat...

 

Man...

 

Being an Medical transcriptionist hearing this everyday... I'm like...

Um.. Sun light kills bacteria too don't you know?

 

So let's all run around nekkid for a while... Yeah.... Just make sure

that you wear some zinc oxide on your sensitive parts.

 

Jennifer.... BTW I wonder if they've done tests on nudist colonies and

how much disease is different there?

 

 

 

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¶ Forgive me but one thing would help.... Go back to using regular freaking

soap instead of that anti-bacterial crappola that they make in chemical

plants.

 

Then... Have children play outside longer and get dirtier... Then..

Stop prescribing antibiotics for everything in the world at the slightest

drop of mucous down your throat...

 

[Dave]: Thank you!!! We are hygiening ourselves to death.

 

 

 

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I was wondering if anyone else had heard of the research done by a teacher at

Princeton. I saw something on PBS about how she is attempting to communicate

with bacteria. If I remember correctly some of her findings indicated that

instead of trying to kill the bacteria we would do better to find another

bacteria that when in its presence causes it to be inactive. I really hope they

do more on this study. It seems to me that when we acknowledge the importance

of all creation and work for harmony we may have a better chance at survival

than saying " It's you or me buddy! "

 

Namaste,

Kathryn

 

 

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Painted Goat Farm

 

BEWARE OF THE SHEEP!

 

" Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to reform. "

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I saw a thing on CNN this morning about MSRA. It's really making the

rounds, huh? (the story *and* the disease!) I had a co-worker,

mid-thirties, who died from this last December. Otherwise perfectly

healthy. Go figure.

 

I also saw this last week -- somebody mentioned the anti-bacterial

soaps. Published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, there was a sort of

peer review of a number of studies done on these soaps and found that

it's no better, and can actually be worse than regular soap. More

study is needed to see if developing a tolerance to triclosan can lead

to additional drug resistance.

 

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I was discussing this with my daughter who is a biologist. Now back in

school for graduate studies, she's doing a paper on MRSA. Here's what she

just sent me (with permission to share)....

 

You know, I'm actually doing my MicroBio paper on this bug. A kid just dies

of MRSA a couple days ago, and now it's getting all this press. What nobody

is telling you is that resistant Staph was first reported within one year of

the introduction of penicillin. And further more, the gene responsible for

confering penicillin and methecillin resistance in Staph, comes from

Enterococcus! (Kind of like the gene for tiger stripes coming from Zebras)

By the way, this bug -- it's probably living on your skin right now. Over

use of antibiotics, ok.. But the gene which expresses the resistance is

induced by presence of penicillin, and resistance has been show to evolve

independently.

 

Long story short. perfectly normal Staph on your skin, could hook up with

perfectly normal Enterococcus from your body, swap some genes, and now you

have MRSA living on your skin. Its not doing anything, it's not hurting

you, it's just there. But then the next time you are treated with a

penicillin family drug, the gene gets turned on. Even then, it's weak

enough that it has to invade the body through an open wound or hospital

device. (catheters, shunts, cuts, burns, etc.

 

....many doctors are turning to just draining a MRSA abcess rather than using

antibiotics. In cases where antibiotics are used, they are using a

combination of drugs to help eliminate or reduce resistant strains. Mary

has successfully treated MRSA abscesses in the skin with drainage and warm

betadine compresses 2x/daily.

 

Mary, her mother-in-law, is a physician.

 

Bonnie

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I have what is called penicillinase. It is left behind from a staph

infection and neutralizes penicillin and artificial penicillin. Try to get

that across to a Dr. Not going to happen. Rather scary.

Zo

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Re: NPR.org - Study Finds Drug-Resistant Bacteria

Are Mixing

 

 

>I was discussing this with my daughter who is a biologist. Now back in

> school for graduate studies, she's doing a paper on MRSA. Here's what she

> just sent me (with permission to share)....

>

> You know, I'm actually doing my MicroBio paper on this bug. A kid just

> dies

> of MRSA a couple days ago, and now it's getting all this press. What

> nobody

> is telling you is that resistant Staph was first reported within one year

> of

> the introduction of penicillin. And further more, the gene responsible

> for

> confering penicillin and methecillin resistance in Staph, comes from

> Enterococcus! (Kind of like the gene for tiger stripes coming from

> Zebras)

> By the way, this bug -- it's probably living on your skin right now. Over

> use of antibiotics, ok.. But the gene which expresses the resistance is

> induced by presence of penicillin, and resistance has been show to evolve

> independently.

>

> Long story short. perfectly normal Staph on your skin, could hook up with

> perfectly normal Enterococcus from your body, swap some genes, and now you

> have MRSA living on your skin. Its not doing anything, it's not hurting

> you, it's just there. But then the next time you are treated with a

> penicillin family drug, the gene gets turned on. Even then, it's weak

> enough that it has to invade the body through an open wound or hospital

> device. (catheters, shunts, cuts, burns, etc.

>

> ...many doctors are turning to just draining a MRSA abcess rather than

> using

> antibiotics. In cases where antibiotics are used, they are using a

> combination of drugs to help eliminate or reduce resistant strains. Mary

> has successfully treated MRSA abscesses in the skin with drainage and warm

> betadine compresses 2x/daily.

>

> Mary, her mother-in-law, is a physician.

>

> Bonnie

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