Super bug, MRSA, carnivorous bacteria, Staph, C. diff and antibiotic resistant bacteria. These words have recently been flying around the media, and it affects millions of people each year.
But what are they? What does that mean? What can you do to protect you and your family from these infectious bacteria? As a microbiologist and a health advocate, I would like to share information with you that might save a potential life.
Opra and Oz Report
Mr. Oprah recently aired a show devoted to helping more people understand the emergence of these superbug infections. As discussed by Oprah and Dr. Oz, superbugs are "carnivorous bacteria" (also called necrotizing fasciitis), MRSA (abbreviation for bacteria called Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus), C. diff (bacterial Clostridium difficile) and "Staph" (short for bacterium Staphylococcus).
In addition, I interviewed Grant Hill of NBA All Star who won the MRSA super bug in 2003.
Why are these Superbugs growing?
As a microbiologist, I am well acquainted with the rise in antibiotic resistance and expansion of MRSA and Staph superbug epidemics. Unfortunately, these superbug infections are largely created for overuse and abuse of antibiotics.
Does your doctor always have cold, did they prescribe antibiotics? Antibiotics do not affect viral infections (cold, influenza, etc.), but often doctors prescribe and take medication and go home. Antibiotics are also abused and abused by the livestock industry. These and more factors have led to the rise in this super bug that takes away every single day.
How to protect yourself against super bugs
Superbugs are generally contagious. Staph is generally present in skin of 30% of the total population. Even if you are a carrier of MRSA or Staph bacteria, you can not even know it. Please wash your hands, clean and cover wounds and breaks, and avoid sharing personal items such as cigarettes and razors with people infected with super bugs. However, MRSA's airborne propagation is hardly spoken, hand washing and hygiene will not help.
What kind of treatment actually works for these Superbugs?
Because of misuse and abuse of antibiotics, many of these superbug bacteria are resistant or immune to the effects of many antibiotics. There are super bugs that can not be immune to all currently available antibiotics. Certainly there are antibiotics that affect most infections, but people using antibiotics are suffering repeated infections that are often not removed.
The failure of mainstream drugs to grow to successfully treat Staph and MRSA's superbug infection is a matter of discontent, disappointment, fear, even more for the hundreds of thousands of people suffering from these deadly infectious diseases There is even despair. - Microbiologist and Staph researcher Michelle Moore
Clearly it is necessary for people to find alternative solutions to protect themselves from these dangerous infections. Even CDC admits that it will take some time for antibiotics to fail completely.
Fortunately, there are many natural antimicrobial agents that are highly effective and do not cause antibiotic resistance. Many of these have been used safely by doctors in Europe for decades. These plants and herbal extracts are very safe and can be highly effective against these superbug infections.
