This means, if a
family member were to have a MRSA infection, the pathogen could go airborne in
the home, and other family members could be in danger of getting the same
infection simply by breathing.
So, is there a simple
and effective way to use colloidal silver in the home to combat this problem?
Indeed there is, and you can read about it in this article…
Hi, Steve Barwick here, for www.TheSilverEdge.com...
More people die each year in the U.S. from MRSA infections
than die of AIDS. Indeed, some 94,000
deaths each year are attributed to the MRSA pathogen.
But previously, it was thought that MRSA can only be
transmitted by touch, i.e., either by person-to-person touching, or when a
contaminated person touches a doorknob or a shopping cart handle, and then you
later touch the same object.
Because of this erroneous assumption, most work to stop the
spread of MRSA in public places like hospitals, schools, gymnasiums and others
has centered chiefly around the disinfection of touch surfaces, which is to
say, disinfecting door knobs, chairs, desks, tables, and other objects the MRSA
pathogen can be found colonizing.
Indeed, the touch surfaces of entire hospital wards, school
classrooms, gyms, prison cell blocks and other public facilities have been
thoroughly disinfected with topical disinfectants after MRSA outbreaks.
Is MRSA Airborne?
But the dirty little secret the health and medical
authorities are apparently trying to avoid letting you know is this:
As far back as 2001, clinical researchers discovered that
MRSA can easily become airborne and infect people by lodging in the nasal
passages and lungs after it’s breathed in.
In fact, a study
published in the Archives of Otolaryngol
Head and Neck Surgery demonstrates that MRSA was very easily spread among
patients in a hospital through the airborne route, and may be responsible for
many cases of hospital-borne MRSA infections.
According to the study authors:
“Methicillin-resistant S aureus was re-circulated among the
patients, the air, and the inanimate environments, especially when there was
movement in the rooms.
Airborne MRSA may play a role in
MRSA colonization in the nasal cavity or in respiratory tract MRSA infections.
Measures should be taken to prevent
the spread of airborne MRSA to control nosocomial MRSA infection in hospitals.”
In other words, as long as everything was perfectly still in
the hospital rooms, MRSA didn’t go airborne.
But as soon as there was significant movement in the
hospital rooms -- such as the changing of bed sheets, or the moving of hospital
equipment, or dusting and cleaning -- the MRSA pathogens easily went airborne, and were carried throughout the hospital room
on the ambient air currents.
Indeed, the study states:
“…clinical isolates of MRSA in our
ward were of one origin, and the isolates from the air and from inanimate environments
were identical to the MRSA strains that caused infection or colonization in
the in-patients.”
Yes, the study found that the exact same MRSA strains found
to be airborne were also found to be colonizing the nasal passages and lungs of
the hospital patients.
According to the study authors, this strongly suggests the
patients were being contaminated with MRSA via the airborne route.
MRSA Levels 50 Times
Higher
What’s more, the researchers found that airborne samples of
MRSA and other bacteria increased a staggering 50 times over in hospital rooms when the air was sampled directly
after bed sheets were changed.
According to the study authors:
“This suggests that airborne MRSA
may play a role in MRSA colonization in the nasal cavity or in respiratory MRSA
infections.
When medical staff were present in
the rooms of patients, the number of CFU of MRSA increased in and around the
rooms.
This indicates that MRSA on surface
environments spreads during periods of
movement, such as when bed sheets are changed in hospitals.”
CFU means “colony forming units.” In other words, whenever there was movement
in a hospital room, such as hospital staff changing bed sheets, MRSA was spread
throughout the room and began colonizing
additional areas of the room.
Known Since 1998
Indeed, one 1998 study published in the Journal of Hospital Infections was titled “Ventilation grilles as a
potential source of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus causing an
outbreak in an orthopaedic ward at a district general hospital.”
Apparently, the newly airborne MRSA pathogens can even
colonize the ventilation grilles in
hospital rooms, and literally be spread further throughout the rooms whenever
the heat or air conditioning comes on – even enough to cause an outbreak of
MRSA infections!
Also Spread By
Coughing
The researchers in the 2001 hospital study went on to state:
“…In this study, we confirmed that
MRSA could be acquired by medical staff and patients through airborne transmission.
The findings suggest the importance
of protecting patients against cross-infectious agents existing in aerosols.”
“Aerosols” means tiny drops of liquid that are
airborne. Translation: Even coughing
can spread the MRSA pathogen to others once a patient’s nasal cavities or lungs
have been infected through the airborne route.
Finally, the study authors pointed out that as far back as
1998 it was already thought by some researchers that MRSA could be spread by
coughing:
“MRSA in the form of a bio-aerosol
can contaminate the air and cause airborne infectious diseases.”
“Bio-aerosol” simply means liquid droplets in the air that
come from a human body. Again, it’s just
a ten dollar medical term for coughing.
So to summarize: the
pathogen becomes airborne when hospital staff begin moving things around in a
hospital room.
Then it colonizes other areas of the hospital room and also
lodges in the nasal cavities and lungs of the patients.
And from there it can be further spread throughout the
hospital room and to other patients or medical staff simply by coughing.
Of course, what can happen in a hospital room can happen in
a home just as easily. This may well
be one reason why MRSA infections that occur in the home – often referred to as
“community acquired MRSA -- tend to be spread to other family members.
If for example a family member were to have a MRSA infection
and precautions aren’t taken during the changing of bed sheets, the MRSA
pathogen can go airborne in the home and potentially contaminate other areas of
the home and infect other family members.
Colloidal Silver to
the Rescue?
Of course, it’s been amply demonstrated in in vitro laboratory studies that
colloidal silver literally decimates the MRSA pathogen.
I’ve reported on this multiple times. And the Colloidal Silver Cures MRSA
website documents a number of these little-known clinical studies in
detail.
What’s more, real-life anecdotal accounts from MRSA victims
who have used colloidal silver after prescriptions antibiotics failed them
further demonstrate the astonishing effectiveness of colloidal silver against
MRSA.
You can read about some of these dramatic real-life accounts
in one of my previous articles, titled Does Colloidal Silver
Really Kill MRSA?
And you can read additional real-life accounts of colloidal
silver being used to cure MRSA infections at the Colloidal Silver Success
Stories website.
So with MRSA being so rampant in public facilities such as
hospitals, schools, prisons, gyms and more, why isn’t colloidal silver used
more often in efforts to keep the populations of this deadly pathogen down to
controllable levels?
And with such a stunningly high national death rate from
MRSA infections here in the U.S., why isn’t colloidal silver being used to
treat patients who come down with MRSA infections?
Only the doctors, hospitals and other public facilities where
MRSA has proven to be a problem can answer that question.
But I suspect it has a lot
to do with the powerful influence of Big Pharma over doctors, hospitals and the
health and medical policies of public institutions.
The $250,000
Colloidal Silver Machine
Interestingly, as reported on the Colloidal Silver Cures MRSA
website, at least one British hospital seems to be catching on to the idea of
using antimicrobial silver against MRSA, and also seems to understand that
often MRSA is spread via the airborne route.
According to another British newspaper, The Sun, a $250,000 machine has been developed to spray a special
aerosol silver mist throughout British hospitals, in order to stop the spread
of the deadly MRSA super pathogens. The newspaper reveals:
“Experts have long known silver is
deadly to the superbug and is highly toxic to some other bacteria as well. It
is already used in plasters and hospital dressings.
But now medics from Leicester
University have created a generator that divides pieces of silver into billions
of tiny particles. It then suspends them in liquid glycerol to be put into
aerosols.
The particles are small enough to
pass inside bacteria but do not kill human cells. The $250,000 machine’s
inventor, Professor Chris Binns, said medical trials will start within the
year.”
Wow. A whopping $250,000
for a machine to spray a fine mist of aerosolized silver through a
hospital?
The Cool Mist
Vaporizer Trick!
You’d think it would be a LOT cheaper to put a simple $40
cool mist vaporizer from Walmart or Walgreen’s drug store (see photo at top of
article) into each hospital room, and simply fill it with colloidal silver and
turn it on, allowing the fine vaporized mist of colloidal silver to spread
throughout the room.
In light of the above study, this would be particularly
valuable in hospitals while nurses are changing sheets and bedding, or while
cleaning personnel are moving things around in the patient care rooms.
Indeed, in my own home whenever there’s illness or
infection, I frequently fill an inexpensive cool mist vaporizer with homemade
colloidal silver, and let it run for 20 or 30 minutes several times a day,
allowing the fine colloidal silver mist to spread on the ambient air throughout
the room or even the entire household.
Why? Because I
recognize the importance of keeping the spread of the pathogens strictly
limited, so others family members are not infected.
But of course, that’s just common sense. There are no
clinical studies demonstrating that running a cool mist vaporizer filled with
colloidal silver in a hospital room, or in the home for that matter, will kill
airborne pathogens such as MRSA and others, and keep infection or disease from
spreading.
But every clinical study I’ve seen that’s been conducted on
antimicrobial silver and its effect on MRSA has demonstrated that the silver literally
wipes out the MRSA pathogen with ease!
So it stands to reason the “cool mist vaporizer trick” would work.
And until the clinical studies are performed, and the idea of
using a cool mist vaporizer filled with colloidal silver is proven to be either
effective or ineffective, I think I’ll stick with common sense and run the
machine – particularly in light of these studies demonstrating that MRSA can so
easily become airborne.
Make Your Own
Colloidal Silver for Pennies!
Of course, it’s awfully darned expensive to fill a cool mist
vaporizer with a commercial brand of colloidal silver.
After all, commercial brands of colloidal silver can cost
anywhere from $20 to $40 for a tiny four-ounce bottle. And the reservoir in a cool
mist vapor can hold a quart or two of liquid, depending upon the size of the
vaporizer.
That’s a total of anywhere from eight to sixteen bottles of
store-bought colloidal silver – obviously a very expensive proposition!
But if you make your own colloidal silver with high-quality
Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge, you can
literally make gallons of antimicrobial colloidal silver at a time for just a
few pennies per batch (see video here)!
So you never have to worry about cost, and you’ll always
have all of the colloidal silver you could possibly need on hand for situations
like those described in this article.
If you’d like to learn more about making and using colloidal silver, just click the
link. Meanwhile, I’ll be back next week
with another helpful and insightful article…
Yours for the safe, sane and responsible
use of colloidal silver,
Steve Barwick, author
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual
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