Antibiotics resistance in icu
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Since he came out of surgery he has been put in induced coma and on a ventilator his oxygen level is low and his lung is operating at a 23% capacity.. doctors think that he might developed infection and are giving him antibiotics for the past 3 days. My question is will his lung be able to improve and start working at a higher capacity?
My question is whether somone could show resistance to antibiotics within the first weeks of exposure or is this more common in more advanced stages of HIV/AIDS?
yes, the navigation on this site is a bit obscure sometimes, and it changes every so often.
In the right hand column on your screen, the first thing is an advertisement about 2x2" or so. The next thing below that is a tiny bar that says 'search this community', so if you type 'antibiotics' in, it will pull up only posts in this Lyme site/page that mention antibiotics, instead of from the whole of MedHelp.
Dr. Smitha,
I had a severe kidney infection with a blocking kidney stone. Sepsis set in and I nearly died as my bp plummeted quickly. I had to be resuscitated via drugs (norepinephrine, I believe & was in ICU for 3 days). Though my urine was cherry koolaide red, my electrolytes were off, I was in severe pain from the UTI, and I went into septic shock, NO CULTURE GREW. I have researched reasons for false negatives re urine cultures and found there can be several reasons for this.
Bacteria that have been made resistant to nearly all antibiotics by an alarming new gene have sickened people in three states and are popping up all over the world, health officials reported Monday.
The U.S. cases and two others in Canada all involve people who had recently received medical care in India, where the problem is widespread.
I'm on Norpace XR (anti-arrythmic) for Afib and I'm not supposed to take any of the antibiotics ending in "mycin" or Biaxin. Another post on this board said they landed in ICU after doing just that. It can cause a fatal heart rhythm.
Another recent post suggested that one should double check with the doctor and/or pharmacist because there is some data that says some antibiotics are more likely to cause trouble than others.
In studying the insulin resistance of 29 people with Hepatitis C, Australian researchers have confirmed that they have high insulin resistance, a precursor to diabetes. However, almost all insulin resistance was in muscle, with little or none in the liver, a very surprising finding given that Hepatitis C is a liver disease.
Insulin, a hormone made by the pancreas, helps the body use glucose for energy. The two most important organs that respond to insulin are the liver and muscle.
Only a handful of new antibiotics have been developed and brought to market in the past few decades, and it is a race against time to find more, as bacterial infections increasingly evolve into "superbugs" resistant to existing drugs.
"Antimicrobial resistance poses a catastrophic threat.
A potentially dangerous sexually transmitted disease that infects millions of people each year is growing resistant to drugs and could soon become untreatable, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.
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Scientists reported last year finding a "superbug" strain of gonorrhea in Japan in 2008 that was resistant to all recommended antibiotics and warned then that it could transform a once easily treatable infections into a global health threat.
Short courses of antibiotics have long-term impact on microbial flora of human gut
Short courses of antibiotics can leave normal gut bacteria harbouring antibiotic resistance genes for up to two years after treatment, say scientists writing in the latest issue of Microbiology, published on 3 November.
The nurse informed me that there would be no harm in treating me. I do know about antibiotics and resistance but I would rather take the risk and be treated.
pylorri infection but after having the antibiotics he gave me, it still has no changes(burping often). At the same time, I started urinating often after having the gastritis. I had pain in my bladder and after that on the genitals. I've done ultrasound for my bladder and the uro test but everything came out negative.These two problems have persisted for already 2 months and it showed no changes so I would be very grateful for those doctors who have an idea what I'm going through.
Hi, threre. Yes, your doctors are right. Antibiotics will develop drug resistance if you take long use. Besides, with the antibiotics treatment, your symptoms will appear again and again. To radically cure your prostatitis, you can take herbal cure Diuretic and anti-inflammatory pill. The medicine not only cure your pathgens but also for your symptoms. Just google it. Hope it helps.
Looking for the same answer...my 3 1/2 year old son has just had his third diagnosis of traces of pneumonia that required a shot in each leg followed by oral antibiotics. Don't know why he is susceptible to this and wondering if his room has mold or something. He does have peanuts allergy; haven't had him tested yet for asthma susceptibility, which we've heard is possible when there are allergies.
How long it takes to treat Chlamydia and Gonorrhea with antibiotics.
She had a heart attack in the ambulance and it took 2 mins to revive her. She stayed in ICU on a ventilator for 11 days. During that time she had a chest tube put into her left lung for a hole that showed up and fluid retention. She had congestive heart failure with fluid retention in arma and legs and both lungs. She had pneumonia, rsv and mersa in her kidneys and lungs. She was malnurioushed and the diabetes was acting up.
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