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    MajesticSeaFlapFlapJoanna Rothkopf
    6/29/16 3:12pm

    Uuuugggghhhh! Nope.

    I am dealing with a nightmare antibiotic resistant UTI at the moment so I really shouldn’t be reading about resistant fatal anythings right now.

    Absolute nightmare fodder.

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      hotsaucedMajesticSeaFlapFlap
      6/29/16 3:18pm

      Ouch! So sorry. Here’s a kitten to share cranberry juice with you in the hopes of making you feel better.

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      Andrea TwerkinMajesticSeaFlapFlap
      6/29/16 3:22pm

      That’s a fucking nightmare, make sure to take probiotics!

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    Roger Cossack ArmyJoanna Rothkopf
    6/29/16 3:14pm

    Blame Candida

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      JadedMoonRoger Cossack Army
      6/29/16 3:41pm

      yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

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      MajesticSeaFlapFlapRoger Cossack Army
      6/29/16 4:03pm

      Now that song is stuck in my head - but I am signing it ‘blame candida’

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    thatsjustmyhairJoanna Rothkopf
    6/29/16 3:07pm

    Nope. As if going to the hospital wasn’t bad enough. I feel like more than ever they have become incubators for all kinds of germs and disease.

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      grapesIickthatsjustmyhair
      6/29/16 3:12pm

      Yep. A while back, I watched a news bit on the increasing popularity of home births- in it, a medical type fretted about how babies needed to be born into the clean environment that only hospitals can provide. I thought this was nuts. There are plenty of good reasons to give birth in a hospital, but clean they most certainly are not.

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      KendalMintcakegrapesIick
      6/29/16 3:27pm

      My mother-in-law is an IV therapist nurse, one of my best friends is a ICU nurse and one of my clients is a NICU nurse. They have all told me: stay out of ERs and hospitals unless you have an excellent reason.

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    SuffersfoolsgladlyJoanna Rothkopf
    6/29/16 4:26pm

    Oh, that’s nice. I’m already paranoid, living at the hospital as I do, since I have breast cancer. My husband just lost a lung to cancer 3 weeks ago and I was terrified he’d contract a sepsis the whole time he was in critical care. My mother has been an invalid for 16 years, after contracting a hospital infection which damaged her brain and made her deaf. This shit is no joke.

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      ZabellaSuffersfoolsgladly
      6/29/16 4:44pm

      As a patient, you would know more about this than someone who visited cancer patients in the hospital, but it seemed to me like the cancer ward was extra clean - likely because they knew most patients had suppressed immunity.

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      JamesandtheGiantAssSuffersfoolsgladly
      6/30/16 10:23am

      So much awful in one comment, Suffersfools! I’m sorry you went/are going through all that.

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    That's Not That Much CheeseJoanna Rothkopf
    6/29/16 3:11pm
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      idontwanttobeniceThat's Not That Much Cheese
      6/29/16 3:45pm

      I never get sick of this.

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      That's Not That Much Cheeseidontwanttobenice
      6/29/16 3:53pm

      It’s so appropriate for so many situations.

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    thetallblonde loves twinjaJoanna Rothkopf
    6/29/16 3:09pm
    GIF
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      Vox PopulistJoanna Rothkopf
      6/29/16 3:14pm

      An entirely man-made problem: Bad hygiene protocols even in first world hospitals, pumping people (and cattle) needlessly full of antibiotics, calamity ensues.

      I know several people who came down with MRSA after they went to the hospital for mundane surgeries, and that problem is bound to get worse in the future.

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        grapesIickVox Populist
        6/29/16 3:28pm

        Hospital acquired MRSA is really, really common- when I worked in a nursing home, we pretty much assumed that any patient coming to us from the hospital had it. There was also the even worse, if less common, V(vancomysin)RE- we usually had at least one such patient out of 30 or so. Hospitals can be seriously uncool.

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        Vox PopulistgrapesIick
        6/29/16 3:54pm

        Hospitals in Netherlands and Denmark don’t like to take in German patients and always test them for MRSA first, because it’s a common problem in German hospitals. Cost-cutting measures have led to personnel being so overworked that they haven’t got enough time left to properly disinfect their hands after each patient, to say nothing of the outsourcing of the cleaning services to cheap private contractors.

        The hospitals’ number crunchers don’t care, since they can always just bill the public health insurances for the costly and prolonged MRSA treatment, so there’s no financial benefit for them to keep the number of infections down, quite the contrary.

        It’s a stupid, stupid system.

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      BurlyqLawyerJoanna Rothkopf
      6/29/16 3:33pm

      I read the headline and instantly squeezed my legs together.

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        thunderbaeJoanna Rothkopf
        6/29/16 3:15pm

        There Is a Potentially Fatal, Drug-Resistant Yeast Infection Spreading Through International Hospitals

        I don't want to be flip, but that does sound like a Trump-descriptor.
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          Artist Formerly Known as SkymallJoanna Rothkopf
          6/29/16 6:04pm

          20 years ago my husband went on the *candida diet*. This yeast is in your gut and untreated can lead to hospitalization (tho not death). When your gut flora is unbalanced (from antibiotics), this causes candida.

          Candida thrives on sugars (or foods that convert to sugars). And basically he had to starve the yeast. So no: candy, alcohol, fruit, bread, condiments, root vegetables, sweets of any kind. He could eat: meat / fish, lemon juice, lettuce, edamame, water, spelt / kamut bread, Braggs Amino Acids. That’s about it. For 3 months. But it worked.

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            sulabulaArtist Formerly Known as Skymall
            6/29/16 10:36pm

            Oregano oil and garlinase pills kill bad bacteria. Sometimes it’s good to start with those first for 2 weeks then add the probiotics and prebiotics they would likely see a huge improvement.

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