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"Penicillin is still useful against many strep and staph infections that cause sore throat, skin infections, and some sexually transmitted diseases like gonorrhea. The most common Streptococcus infection is strep throat. In spite of the fact that only 10% of those complaining of a sore throat who visit a doctor actually have a Streptococcus infection, 75% walk out the door with a prescription for an antibiotic." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"To date, there are very limited studies investigating whether probiotics may have a beneficial effect against staph infections. A laboratory study has suggested that L. reuteri may be an effective agent to use against this superbug, but more research is needed. As probiotics help boost the immune system and some species have antibacterial activity, it is possible that probiotic use during a Staph infection may offer some health benefits. Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci Vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE) is a growing concern in today's medical system." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) "In healthy people the result is minor, but in people who are elderly, ill or have weakened immunity, ordinary staph infections can cause serious illness, including meningitis, endocarditis, toxic shock syndrome and septicemia. In the 1990s, a type of MRSA appeared in the wider community. Today, that form of Staph, known as community-associated MRSA, or CA-MRSA, is responsible for many serious infections of the skin and other soft tissues and a serious form of pneumonia. How does Staph become ?acn yeaf some soo,000 patients in American drug-resistant?" - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"But just eight years later, in 1950, 40 percent of all staph infections were penicillin-resistant. By 1960, that number had climbed to 80 percent. Treatment switched to a specialized relative of penicillin called methicillin, which was introduced in 1959—and two years later, the first incident of methicillin-resistant staph, known as MRSA, was reported. MRSA is now firmly entrenched in hospitals, and treatment has moved to a different class of antibiotics, usually with one called vancomycin. The first case of VRSA—yes, vancomycin-resistant staph—was reported in 1996 in Japan." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.)

"Thyme is especially useful against staph infections. Cleavers is a gentle, nourishing lymphagogue. Combine equal parts of each herb and drink an infusion made from 1-2 tsp per cup of water, three to four times daily. 773 DIAGNOSIS Menopause marks the end of menstruation and a woman's reproductive years. There is no definitive age at which this occurs. On average it tends to happen around the age of 51, but there have been cases where periods have stopped in women in their 20s, while other women will continue to menstruate until their late 50s or early 60s." - Marshall Editions, 1000 Cures for 200 Ailments: Integrated Alternative and Conventional Treatments for the Most Common Illnesses (Get the book.)

"Nine out of ten staph infections in 1998 involved bacteria that were completely resistant to penicillin and all related compounds. (Forty years previously, all staph infections were curable with moderate doses of inexpensive penicillin-class drugs.) Similarly, 40 percent of all pneumococci, the chief cause of bacterial pneumonia and ear infections, was resistant to penicillins. And one out of five staph infections involved so-called MRSA strains—that is, they were resistant to methicillin as well." - Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Get the book.)

"These enzymes are weapons evolved by the bacteria over time that have rendered several antibiotics useless against staph infections. Cloxacillin is one of the antibiotics prescribed to treat certain staph infections because it is able to resist such enzymes. Possible Side Effects The drug's side effects include rashes, allergic reactions, and seizures." - Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D., The Side Effects Bible: The Dietary Solution to Unwanted Side Effects of Common Medications (Get the book.)

"Calvin Warriner, a West Palm Beach lawyer who represents Lydon in her action against the Tenet hospital, says he has documented more than 100 similar cases of cardiac patients who contracted virulent staph infections because of unsanitary conditions at Palm Beach Gardens. Warriner has said most of the cases were caused by penicillin-resistant forms of bacteria. Warriner told the Jupiter Courier, "[These people] thought heart surgery would make them better and look at them now." Though crippled for life, Lydon fared better than some who went under the knife at Palm Beach Gardens. She lived." - Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business (Get the book.) "Warriner says he has documented sixteen cases of patients who died from staph infections. After the infections became known, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services threatened to revoke the hospital's Medicare certification unless the problem was brought under control. "This action was taken because of infection-control issues," said Hugh Miller, a CMS official in Atlanta. Months later, after new procedures were implemented by Palm Beach, federal and state officials withdrew their plans to bar treatment there for Medicare patients." - Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business (Get the book.)

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"The combination of these two medicines can fight the staph infections that ticarcillin alone cannot. Possible Side Effects The side effects with either ticarcillin or ticarcillin plus clavulanate potassium include confusion, convulsions, drowsiness, and rash." - Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D., The Side Effects Bible: The Dietary Solution to Unwanted Side Effects of Common Medications (Get the book.)

"His worry had been raised by an infectious bacteria called staphylococcus, common around the world. staph infections, as doctors refer to them, exist primarily within the nose, but also appear in the underarms, the vagina, the pharynx, and on damaged skin. Staph is a leading cause of pneumonia acquired during a hospital stay, and of surgical wound infections like the one that struck Shane Matthews. By the mid-1970s, one species of staph, called Staphylococcus aureus, was becoming resistant in the United States and Britain to methicillin, the primary drug used to treat the bacteria." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.)

"Because some strains of the organism exuded powerful toxins, staph infections could be terrifying, escalating in a matter of hours from little more than a small, pus-producing contamination of a wound to life-threatening blood poisoning and cardiac arrest. It was primarily because of staph infections that tens of thousands of soldiers' limbs were amputated during the Civil War and World War I. Staph bacteria tend to cluster in tight groups, like grapes on a vine. Under stress, the organisms can expel the water from their cytoplasm and go into a dormant state as hard, dry "beads." - Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Get the book.) "Forty years previously, all staph infections were curable with moderate doses of inexpensive penicillin-class drugs.) Similarly, 40 percent of all pneumococci, the chief cause of bacterial pneumonia and ear infections, was resistant to penicillins. And one out of five staph infections involved so-called MRSA strains—that is, they were resistant to methicillin as well. MRSA strains could only be treated with the last-ditch, and expensive, antibiotic vancomycin, thus raising average treatment costs from $27,700 to $31,400 per case and increasing staph death rates from 8 percent to 17 percent." - Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Get the book.)

"When penicillin was first commercialized it killed all staph infections, but now more than 90 percent of them resist it. What exactly is "resistance"? It is evolution—at a blistering pace. A pathogen hurriedly mutates new genes or acquires ready-made ones that give it new properties. By attacking organisms with chemicals and drugs, we've forced the bugs to evolve, and may have accelerated the rates at which they are changing. The HIV virus, remember, can create drug resistance in just one week after being exposed to just one dose of a drug." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.)

"Cloxacillin is one of the antibiotics prescribed to treat certain staph infections because it is able to resist such enzymes. Possible Side Effects The drug's side effects include rashes, allergic reactions, and seizures." - Frederic Vagnini, M.D. and Barry Fox, Ph.D., The Side Effects Bible: The Dietary Solution to Unwanted Side Effects of Common Medications (Get the book.)

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