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From: MSN Nicknametaka00381  (Original Message)Sent: 10/17/2007 6:52 AM
Hans, do you think the person with Mead acid in cells like you would be resistant to this "flesh eating bacteria" infection?

SOURCE: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,302299,00.html

Staph Infection Kills Virginia Student, Prompts Closing of 21 Schools

Tuesday , October 16, 2007

BEDFORD, Va. �?
A high school student has died as the result of a treatment-resistant staph infection, prompting Virginia officials to shut down 21 schools to keep the illness from spreading.

Ashton Bonds, 17, a senior at Staunton River High School in Bedford, Va., died Monday after being hospitalized for a week with Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, his mother said.

"I want people to know how sick it made my son," Veronica Bonds said.

Bedford Superintendent James Blevins said at a news conference Tuesday that the schools will be closed for cleaning Wednesday.

Staph infections, including the serious MRSA strain, have spread through schools nationwide in recent weeks, according to health and education officials.

MRSA is a strain of staph bacteria that does not respond to penicillin and related antibiotics but can be treated with other drugs. The infection can be spread by skin-to-skin contact or sharing an item used by an infected person, particularly one with an open wound.

Many of the infections are being spread in gyms and locker rooms, where athletes �?perhaps suffering from cuts or abrasions �?share sports equipment. Ashton Bonds played football last year but was not playing this season.

Ashton went to Bedford Memorial Hospital on Oct. 4 after complaining of pain in his side, his mother said. He was sent home after doctors ruled out appendicitis, but was readmitted three days later and transported to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital.

Last week doctors diagnosed Ashton with a MRSA infection that had spread to his kidneys, liver, lungs and the muscles around his heart.

Early Thursday morning, Ashton had to be sedated and put on a ventilator. He was about to undergo surgery to drain the infection from his lungs when doctors detected a blood clot near his heart. Bonds said the clot was inoperable.

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Some of you know I'm an MD by training and I picked up an MSRA infection at our surgery center a few years ago. Don't know how but I got a "spot" on my arm that would not heal. At first it looked like a small pimple or perhaps a small boil. But it was sore - so deeply sore I could hardly stand to touch it with a q-tip to clean the area. Our first thought was cancer until it started to develop a purient smelling puss. Then we cultured the discharge and found MSRA!

It took four rounds of various antibiotics and finally a new antibiotic like Statin drug to knock it out! I was lucky because it remained "localized" and had it not been for the knowledge of a top notch dermatologist, I could have well died from it had it become systemic. My partners (surgeons all!) missed the diagnosis and the first lab series were "indeterminate" so we didn't know what we were dealing with until it has been "cooking" for almost a month and had failed every known antibiotic we'd tried to that point.

Finally we had an IV Home Health company come out, place a catheter in my arm and proceed to give me slow infusions of VANCOMYCIN and when it began to respond to VANC - we added in the statins (XYVOX)

The total cost of my treatment alone to get rid of it was something like $19,000 not including the $2700 for a weeks worth of the Xyvox!

Treating this with Tea Oil is INSANITY! This MSRA can KILL YOU AND DO SO QUICKLY. IT"S ALSO KNOWN TO MAINFEST AS the "FLESH EATING" bacteria Necrotizing Fasciitis and if it does that - the growth is so fast that the surgeons can hardly strip the skin away fast enough to control it. Trust me - this shit is NOTHING to play with or try home remedies on.

If you suspect that you have it - and the presentation can vary - however it's usually a small sore or pimple like nodule that is tender and sore beyond reason - and then it starts secreting a whitish/green smelly puss - usually - then get your ass to an ER and tell them to culture for MSRA and fast! If they don't and it goes systemic you can be dead within hours! Yeah, it's that friggin serious! The initial infection can happen anywhere on the body, but is usally the result of a scrape or scratch with an infected area nearby. We think I got mine from a scratch from a cat combined with the exposure to the bacteria in the Operating Room where it was brough in on the skin of a patient.

The ONLY thing that saved my ass was the docs using high doses of partially effective antibiotics until they knew what it was. That treatment, while not sufficient to stop the infection, at least slowed it down enough to prevent it going into my blood stream or turning into the Necrotizing Fasciitis you've read about. Then when they finally used the "right stuff" the sore cleared and the infection was over in less than a week.

BTW - this entire time - almost a month - while we were going through misdiagnosis and ineffective treatment, I felt like shit! The spikey fevers (up to 103 and then back to normal a few hours later) and dizzyness, and then general flu like symptoms made for a very uncomfortable month. Also, since we don't know how it can be spread, of course I had to stay at home and away from the medical offices for my safety and that of the patients! So the month off work and being sick was NO fun.


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From: MSN NicknameHansSelyeWasCorrectSent: 10/18/2007 2:14 AM
I cited a study in one of my essays about how inflammation persists with omega 3s or 6s in your cells, but there is also a claim I've heard that healthy adults who have been afflicted with "flesh-eating bacteria" are taking certain pain relievers that prevent any inflammatory response (or at least enough of one). It would be interesting to do some experiments in lab animals, or something along those lines.